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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (45919)	6/3/2000 1:57:00 AM
From: mozek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Briefly, Patrick Naughton was the first person to work on Java. He eventually left Sun to help start Starwave, which was bought by Infoseek and eventually Disney. His last position was as a Disney exec, but he gained a great deal of notoriety recently as you can see below. Patrick Naughton interview: forbes.com Recent legal problems and conviction: zdnet.com Mike

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (45919)	6/3/2000 8:06:00 AM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 74651

Charles - even a Texan should have been aware of Naughton...<GG> without him, Oak and later Java probably would not have happened. Here's a few more links - ei.cs.vt.edu A Brief History of the Java Language The development of the Java language began as a response to a letter written in 1990 to the CEO of Sun Microsystems. Patrick Naughton, a disgruntled Sun software engineer, detailed in his letter the many reasons he was leaving Sun to work for NeXT; chief among these complaints was the confusion and frustration he and his co-workers felt when programming which stemmed from the huge assortment of application programming interfaces (API's) which Sun supported. Shaken by Naughton's keen assessment of the problems their software division faced, Sun's management commissioned Naughton, Bill Joy, James Gosling, and three others to form a research group to create something new and exciting which alleviated this problem. The team, codenamed Green, set for themselves the goal of creating a single operating environment, both processor and the software to run upon it, which could be used by all consumer electronic devices, from computers and video game machines all the way down to remote controls and VCR's. Their vision was to enable interactivity between all such devices, as well as to speed development and reduce the cost of implementing new features through the use of a single, small core operating environment. After much research and testing, the result was a simple object-oriented programming language named Oak, after the tree which grew out the window of Gosling's office (although other stories abound). Lots more at that excellent site. see also geocities.com 1990 Archie is released by Peter Deutsch, Alan Emtage, and Bill Heelan at McGill. The Internet Toaster, developed by Simon Hackett and John Romkey makes appearances at Interop. Patrick Naughton sends an angry resignation letter to the CEO of Sun Microsystems detailing the woeful state of the company's operating systems. The company commissions Naughton, Bill Joy, James Gosling, and three others to create a solution to the problem. They would create a simple object-oriented programming language named Oak, which would evolve into Java a few years later.