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me programming at the #WebLogic office 417 Montgomery SF, circa 1997
@pambrose same time/place. Note he is probably fixing your Oracle JDBC driver bug.
@daveybuster surprisingly NOT programming. i sought to hire him away from Javasoft because he had written much of JDK 1.1 http://java.net , and we needed async networking IO. his nickname was “bit boy” because he wrote much of the native code in #WebLogic
Laurie Pitman. who pretty much held the whole company together, brought us the website, graphics, and docs, and htmlKona, and universally held in awe for putting up with me. she always got the biggest monitor, even though she was 17” shorter than Paul
one day in 1998, got a call from @IBM to visit Armonk to talk about what we were building. we were pretty sure it was a preliminary acquisition discussion so @scott_dietzen, @pambrose, and @mnhuch1 and I headed there. the result? $1b spent to@develop #websphere
@dreampipe whippersnapper applied 2b first SE. asked where he saw himself in 5 years, he said CTO of #WebLogic. shook my head and 
. wiser minds prevailed. <5 years he was deputy CTO. now hawking AWS in Singapore 
. wiser minds prevailed. <5 years he was deputy CTO. now hawking AWS in Singapore
invited Brad Merrill, Java “evangelist” for @Microsoft (center) to 1997 JavaOne dinner if he would pay the check. @sampullara (rt) and I ordered steaks and bottles of wine! total was almost $1000. stuck it to Bill!
after hiring @daveybuster and didn’t get async IO ;) i called @bigmountainben who had worked on JDK 1.2 http://java.net . Here he is with @gsaab at Dave’s wedding (2001?)
before servlets came along, i had already added a rudimentary web server to WebLogic to manage it. hired @adam_messinger away from @marcprecipice, who took over and created servlet product. coupled w jdbc was key to all web2db apps (w/wife @Marysophiapj )
here’s another one of me manning our JavaOne 1996 booth.
i asked a friend to take this pic at JavaOne 1997 knowing full well that no one would believe it 20 years later. this is @lewtucker VP of Javasoft, _, me, and brad merrill @Microsoft. they were arch enemies!
@sampullara wrote a blog CORBA v RMI caught @pambrose’s eye. interviewed him by phone then brought him to SF. first server eng hire, and started on his birthday in Dec ‘96. Lived in our basement for a month! w
@scott_dietzen @dreampipe JavaOne 97
@scott_dietzen @dreampipe JavaOne 97
every co has a defining deal. the 1 that puts you on the map. the 1 that set Real Customers.
for WebLogic, that was Bear Stearns.
S/O to @_BenCotton for downloading our sybase JDBC drivers and being our champion at Bear.
pictured: Karl and Steve our NY sales team
for WebLogic, that was Bear Stearns.
S/O to @_BenCotton for downloading our sybase JDBC drivers and being our champion at Bear.
pictured: Karl and Steve our NY sales team
me and @peterseibel in my living room. an autodidact, he had also been working for @marcprecipice writing Perl, so asked him to write something in Java, and he built a genetic algorithm. our first DRE, and first in-house transfer to core server dev. Check out his books!
after The Acquisition, we got to do some fun things like tequila shots on a catamaran in Cabo @sampullara me @daveybuster
...and skiing in Utah
This is Sriram Srinivasan, 1 of a team of 4 we hired from TCSI. was writing Advanced Perl 4 O’Reilly and postponed starting to finish it. A TP expert, he and @sampullara wrote the 1st impl of EJB, based on the 0.3 spec, which they would track to 1.0 release.
This is Joe Weinstein Z”L. He passed away this past summer after a long battle with cancer. I wrote an obituary for him. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xYMsgqha9pcSTu62iGCMIw5KftJ8gpFU/view?usp=drivesdk
JavaOne 1998 — the best day in my 40 year career. Our puny booth was mobbed. Neighboring booths complained. We sent for reinforcements, and the entire engineering team came to Moscone to talk to customers. We had a huge party afterwards at the bar atop the Marriott. 
The booth staff!
@anno_langen also came from TCSI and was our security architect. With a PhD in CS and deep expertise in C++, I thought Java seemed like a step backward for him. He was instrumental in much of the 3.0 core server. + @adam_messinger @eric_halpern @peterseibel
@doncferguson had once worked with @pambrose at Quintus, and was responsible for the first ever JMS implementation. Not to be confused with the websphere guy.
+ @pcal43 @SkipSauls @IzunoKempton @scott_dietzen @dreampipe
+ @pcal43 @SkipSauls @IzunoKempton @scott_dietzen @dreampipe
