Sun Microsystems

Can you remind us what was the Java version when you stepped in?

Well, when I joined Sun Microsystems way back in 1996, it was about the same week that JDK 1.0 was officially launched.

So it went from alpha to 1.0.

And you went through all these 27 releases and all these in-between things happening.

So you're talking, and I'm remembering, and I'm sure Ken was as well.

Well, yeah, and to your point, like I went driving to my co-op job that morning in Burlington at Sun Microsystems as an engineering lad.

And I was listening to WEI, and John and Jerry had the breaking news that day.

And then you got to where you went, and you were watching on TV, and then eventually everybody went home, and you're like looking at the skies like a – it was just like a fear, like a fear of seeing a plane, an unrational fear.

Well,

yeah, and to your point, like I went driving to my co-op job that morning in Burlington at Sun Microsystems as an engineering lad.

And I was listening to WEI, and John and Jerry had the breaking news that day.

And then you got to where you went, and you were watching on TV, and then eventually everybody went home, and you're like looking at the skies like a – it was just like a fear, like a fear of seeing a plane, an unrational fear.

Well, yeah.

To your point, I was driving to my co-op job that morning in Burlington at Sun Microsystems as an engineering engineer.

lad and I was listening to WEI and John and Jerry had the breaking news that day and then you got to where you went and you were watching on TV and then eventually everybody went home and you're like looking at the skies like a fret you were just it was just like a fear like a fear of seeing a plane an unrational fear

for like there was that was another thing I don't think people can understand if you didn't live through it there was nothing in the sky, like nothing.

I stuck around with the integration and lasted at G Capital from 1998 through until 2006.

Had a couple of key roles in a joint venture with what was Sun Microsystems, then became Oracle to run the UK business from a financing perspective.

I can match you with John Openshaw, who was a Sun employee there.

Then I left that business at the end of 2006 to join what was the Dell Financial Services JV between CIT and Dell, which is where I think you and I first met, Richard.

I am somewhat dubious about how exactly The class of folks that, the Koslas, for instance, they're the ones that wrote this JAMA perspective.

Neil Kosla, the son of Vinod Kosla, the famous venture capitalist who has Sun Microsystems in his CV, a founder or something of Sun Microsystems.

But Neil Kosla, I'm curious if Neil or Vinod Kosla, who are very wealthy individuals, 0.1%, I don't think they are going to be using AI for themselves.

So that'll be my one comment on that.