Geelan also interviewed Sun's Director of Web Technologies, Tim Bray, and its Chief Open Source Officer, Simon Phipps.

Other Java luminaries interviewed at JavaOne 2006 included:

From JBoss - CEO Marc Fleury (pictured below), Architect Gavin King & Director of Product Management, Pierre Fricke

From Nexaweb - Founder & CTO, Coach Wei

From Adobe - Flex Evangelist, Christophe Coenraets

From the Eclipse Foundation - Executive Director, Mike Milinkovich

From Enerjy - CEO, Nigel Cheshire

From Icesoft - CEO, Chris Erickson

From Azul Systems - Co-Founder, VP of Software Engineering, Shyam Pillalamarri

From Exadel - Founder & CEO, Fima Katz

From Xythos - CTO, Barry Lind


From UIEvolution - President, Chris Ruff

From Backbase - Co-Founder & CEO, Jouk Pleiter

From Sybase - Senior Product Manager, Loren Corbridge

From Elexir Technology - CEO, Shih-Hor Lau

From Jazillian - CTO, Andy Tripp

From Tangosol - CEO, Cameron Purdy

From Perrone Robotics - CEO, Paul Perrone

From OpenLogic - Founder & CTO, Rod Cope

From TIBCO General Interface - Director & Co-Founder, Kevin Hakman

From JackBe - CTO, John Crupi, along with SOA Architects Deepak Alur and Dan Malks

From Sybase iAnywhere - Senior Product Manager, David Jonker

From Terracotta - CEO, Ari Zilka

From SavaJe - SVP, Marketing, John McCready

From Liferay, LLC - Chief Software Architect, Brian Chan

From Paremus - CEO, Gary Ebersole

From Splunk - CEO & Chief Splunker, Michael Baum

From Mainsoft - Director of Technology Evangelism, Laurence Moroney

From H & R Block - Senior Systems Architect, Dan Cahoon

From Simplica - Founder & CEO, Marc Rabil

From Tira Wireless - CTO, Allen Lau

From Virtuas - VP, Global Alliances, Phil Robinson

From Fair Isaac Corporation - VP of Product Marketing for EDM Technologies, James Taylor

From InterSystems - VP of Software Develpment, Joe De Santis

From Alfresco - VP of Web Content Management, Kevin Cochrane

From DevelopMentor - VP of Sales & Marketing, Jeff Gariepy