Hal Stern, Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Sun's Software group, stopped by to talk with SYS-CON group publisher and editorial director Jeremy Geelan at SYS-CON.TV's JavaOne studio last week in San Francisco.

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