Java and Open Source guru Bill Dudney got the chance to interview some key people for SYS-CON.TV during JavaOne 2007 in San Francisco. Here he sits down for a few minutes with Rich Sands of OpenJDK, an open-source Java SE implementation that is part of the Java Community Process (JCP).

Paremus CEO Dr. Richard Nicholson was interviewed at JavaOne 2007 about the company's commitment to distributed SOA runtime platforms. The company's Infiniflow Enterprise Service Fabric comprises a series of lightweight distributed SOA platforms for composite applications.

Rob Rachwald, Director of Product Marketing at Fortify Software, outlines the company's commitment to application security, including a number of potential new problems with the AJAX-centric, Web 2.0 age, in this interview at JavaOne 2007.

Parasoft's VP of Strategy and Corporate Development, Wayne Ariola, sat down at JavaOne 2007 to talk about the company's software testing tools, and their importance to SOA developers who are embarking on increasingly complex application development projects for enterprise IT.

Philip Dodds, CTO of the former Simula Labs, newly renamed DevZuz, was interviewed about accelerating product lifecycles for the betterment of the company's customers. Taking an open-source approach to the market, DevZuz aims to offer a single source for client-...

Leading technologists--from Layer 7, Oracle, Thinstall, Nastel, Solstice Software, and iTKO--joined in a discussion on SYS-CON.TV about the state of SOA among enterprise customers, the challenges they face in solving their customer needs, and the recent success ...

Rogue Wave has been around a long time, and has managed to stay in business by staying on the forefront of the industry. In this interview, company VP/Product Development Patrick Leonard talks about the concept of an SOA Service Grid and how Rogue Wave competes in this space.

Ryan English, Group Product Manager at SPI Dynamics, sat down for an interview at JavaOne 2007 to discuss the company's views on web application security and testing. The company's Intelligent Engines and Hybrid Analysis software form a foundation for web app security in enterprise IT.

Custom Credit Systems uses an AJAX-y approach to provide end-to-end loan processing services and applications. Company execs Josh Gertzen and Brian Shaw outlined their vision in this exclusive interview at JavaOne 2007 in San Francisco.

Appistry tackles the virtualization challenge by creating a 'scale without fail' in its solutions for grid-based enterprise IT structures. Company execs Kevin Haar and Sam Charrington outline the company's vision in an exclusive SYS-CON.TV interview held at JavaOn...

JNetDirect develops expert software components, with a focus on XML mapping. Company exec Lau Shih Hor sat down for a few minutes during JavaOne 2007 to discuss the company and what it's doing today in this exclusive SYS-CON.TV interview.

Javector President Mark Hansen outlined the company's vision in enabling web services and SOA for enterprise IT, with an emphasis on Java EE and Java SE, during this exclusive interview on SYS-CON.TV at JavaOne 2007 in San Francisco.

Tidal Software promises a 'radically simple' approach to optimizing SOA. Company exec Martin Milani sat down with SYS-CON.TV to outline the company's vision in this exclusive interview from the show floor at JavaOne 2007 in San Francisco.

Integration, data management, and optimizing service delivery are all top-of-mind issues for Pervasive Software. The company's CTO Mike Hoskins discusses its vision and products in this exclusive SYS-CON.TV interview from the show floor at JavaOne 2007 in San Francisco.

Toronto-based Microsoft Senior Architect Mohammed Akif sat down with SYS-CON.TV Founder and Host Roger Strukhoff during JavaOne 2007 in San Francisco to discuss how Redmond views interoperability and SOA, and how his role helps enable the company's strategy.

Agitar Software exec and noted madman Alberto Savoia was able to spare a few minutes at JavaOne 2007 in San Francisco to sit in with SYS-CON.TV Founder and Host Roger Strukhoff in an exclusive interview during which he discussed what's been on his mind recently.

Reducing the time between software defect introduction and resolution is a critical process in software development, according to Stelligent exec Andrew Glover, who sat in for this exclusive interview on SYS-CON.TV during JavaOne 2007 in San Francisco.

Terracotta founder and CTO Ari Zilka sat in for this interview at JavaOne 2007 in San Francisco to discuss recent goings-on at the company, including some additions to its management team and the company's recent growth in the Java applications and scalability space.

Taking the open source approach to business intelligence enables 'BI for everyone,' according to JasperSoft. Company CTO Barry Klawans discusses the company's approach in this exclusive SYS-CON.TV interview, conducted from the show floor at JavaOne 2007 in San Francisco.

Bob Brewin is one of the great ones at Sun Microsystems, having served a number of key roles before landing his current post as CTO of Software. He speaks his mind during this exclusive SYS-CON.TV interview from the show floor at JavaOne 2007.

Nexaweb's Bob Buffone sat in not to talk about the Red Sox, but rather the company's unique Web 2.0 technology vision. Buffone discussed the company's take on Rich Internet Applications and SOAs during this exclusive interview with SYS-CON.TV Founder and Host Roger Strukhoff.

The Liferay Java open source enterprise portal and content management system (CMS), now in its eighth year, was under discussion by company exec Brian Chan during this exclusive interview on SYS-CON.TV during JavaOne 2007 in San Francisco.

'We should have been talking about web security when the web was young,' says S.P.I. Dyanmics technologist Brian Christian, who sat in with SYS-CON.TV for this exclusive interview during JavaOne 2007. Security and testing are two major topics under the company's purview.

Data grid solutions for mission-critical applications float Tangosol's boat, and company exec Cameron Purdy outlined this vision during this exclusive SYS-CON.TV interview from the expo floor at JavaOne 2007 in San Francisco, just after the company's acquisition by Oracle.

'JRuby is done,' says Sun Java guru Charlie Nutter in this interview with fellow JRuby-ist Thomas Enebo during this exclusive interview with SYS-CON.TV at JavaOne 2007. The JRuby fruition represented about 18 months of concentrated effort after years of planning, according to Nutter.

Nexaweb Founder and CTO Coach Wei is his usual entertaining self in this exclusive SYS-CON.TV interview from JavaOne 2007 in San Francisco, outlining the company's Enterprise Web 2.0 vision and commenting on the latest trends and developments in the industry.

DiSTI CTO Darren Humphrey discusses GeoStudio for Java, an announcement the company made at JavaOne 2007, in this exclusive SYS-CON.TV interview. Humphrey notes that the company's traditional base is C++, and points developers to a company website at www.simulation.com.

Darrin Wilkey of Boston-basded Tele Atlas discusses mapping and wireless access to the company's maps during this exclusive SYS-CON.TV interview at JavaOne 2007. Company customers include TomTom, Blackberry, Nokia, and other major companies who rely on device-enabled mapping.

Venture capitalist Dave Burleight was roaming the halls at JavaOne 2007, and took a few minutes for this exclusive SYS-CON.TV interview to discuss where capital markets are now, what's hot, and how things look today after the long bleak winter of the dot-bomb era.

Core JSF is the subject of a new book published by Prentice-Hall/Addison- Wesley by noted author David Geary, a former Sun exec and consultant who found his new book to be on the hot list at JavaOne 2007. Geary talked a little about his background and book in this ...

Dave Hofert, Group Marketing Manager for JSE Embedded and Real-Time, discusses the new Java RTS 2.0 release in this exclusive interview on SYS-CON.TV. He points out that it now supports X86 platforms, and has introduced a real-time garbage collector.

Borland/CodeGear big thinker David Intersimone (David I) sat in for this exclusive SYS-CON.TV interview from the expo floor at JavaOne 2007, during which he discussed JBuilder 2007, the company's first Java developer environment that builds on top of Eclipse.

Hyperic CTO Doug McEachern outlines the company's open source vision and flagship open-source HQ systems management product in this exclusive SYS-CON.TV interview. HQ was created at Covalent, but spun out to Hyperic and others as a way 'to focus (it) little better...

GigaSpaces CMO Geva Perry discusses and upcoming product announcement in this exclusive SYS-CON.TV interview from JavaOne 2007. The company offers what it calls 'unparalleled' solutions for applications that need to scale out massively.

NaviSite Senior Vice President James Fanella outlines the company's approach to enable Sun ISVs to develop and deploy apps hosted and supported by the Chicago-based company, in this exclusive interview from JavaOne 2007 with SYS-CON.TV Founder and Host Roger Strukhoff.

Joyent Founder and CTO Jason Hoffman talked about Joyent's founding three years ago, and how the company provides services to Java and Ruby on Rails developers, in this exclusive interview with SYS-CON.TV Founder and Host Roger Strukhoff from the expo floor at JavaOne 2007.

The excitement crested during the finale of JavaOne 2007 for the SYS-CON drawing, during which three lucky attendees received one of the three prizes: a Real-World AJAX book and DVD (value $695), a Golden Pass to a future SYS-CON event (value $1695), and a check for $2000.

Open Source and Java guru Bill Dudney (aka the 'Open Source King of the World') lets loose during this frank talk about open source from the show floor at JavaOne 2007, in this exclusive back-and-forth with SYS-CON.TV Founder and Host Roger Strukhoff.

TopQuadrant Chief Scientist Dean Allemang outlined his company's vision behind the semantic web and ontology-based search. This is not the buzzwordesque web of futuristic imaginations, but rather, a very specific idea backed by software tools the company has dev...

RS Media, a 'robo sapien,' stopped by the SYS-CON.TV booth at JavaOne 2007, plopped him/her/itself up on a chair, and held court for a few minutes in an exclusive interview with SYS-CON.TV founder and host Roger Strukhoff. Madcap antics ensue...