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George Paolini
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George Paolini is executive vice president of Platform Ecosystems, SAP AG, and drives SAP's Enterprise Services Community Process. Prior to joining SAP, he was the founder of the Java Community Process, the widely renowned forum that energized a revolution in software programming that today has Java recognized as one of the most widely used technologies globally.
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Ten Years Ago This Month,
Java Was 1000 Days Old By George Paolini Ten years ago this month,
Java was 1000 days old.
Here we bring an article
by the then Vice
President of Marketing
for Sun's Software
Products and Platforms,
George Paolini. Ten years
on, we thought it might
make interesting reading,
since even back then
Sun's com... Mar. 10, 2008 10:30 AM Reads: 13,035 | Web Services:
Implications for Business
Processes By George Paolini I love Web services, for
all the things they can't
do. It's not that I'm a
pessimist, prone to look
at the glass as half
empty. Quite the
contrary. Whenever I hear
about Web services, I
think about all the
promises that won't be
kept, and to me that
looks like... May. 24, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 7,026 | A Call to Action for the
Java Technology Community By George Paolini We live in a world of
high anxiety. We're
concerned about the
competition, fearful
we'll fall behind the
curve, worried that
making up lost ground
might prove impossible.
So we hastily turn to
technology, which
obligingly always seems
to have a solution. Well,
a... Jun. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 8,701 | Refining the Process By George Paolini For many years I was the
world's greatest parent.
Then I had kids. Before
my kids were born, I knew
all the answers to
successful child-rearing.
And as the self-appointed
expert I was quick to
impart my wisdom to
friends and family.
Things sure were simpler
then, ... Feb. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 7,040 | Innovation Without
Disruption By George Paolini When I was a lad, I tell
my kids, life was hard.
We had to walk
everywhere, for instance.
And not only that, we had
to carry our own data. On
things called floppies.
Back then, we had to
manually move information
from one computer to the
next. We did all this
work by hand. Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 7,198 | A Sign of the Times By George Paolini If you had to conjure an
image that best serves as
a "sign of the
times," what might
it be? Perhaps a screen
shot of a rare Partridge
Family album being
auctioned off for an
incredible sum on e-Bay.
Or how about a staged
photo op of some of those
starc... Jun. 1, 1999 12:00 AM Reads: 9,464 |
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