Jonathan Schwartz Interview Finally Coming! Bruce Tate Interview Online
I am proud to see that Jonathan mentioned in his blog that he is going to do the show with the JavaPosse. I’m excited beyond words for Dick Wall, who I believe has taken over my role of getting grief from the pod-listeners regarding their show. If I were them, I’d disable comments and just let email be submitted as feedback. If there is one thing I’ve learned being an academic, it’s that the commoners are many and mean. I think there should be a question on what your favorite opera is before you can post, and if it’s not Gounod’s Faust, you don’t get to comment.
Dick and I were working on the Jonathan Schwartz interview for some time during the JavaCast, and I’m glad to see it came about finally.
Also, the JavaCast archives staring me are online! For those who are complaining that Tor and Dick just read the news and don’t comment or analyze, perhaps you should listen to my endless rants and analysis after every news item on the previous JavaCast shows; It will allow you to appriciate the more rushed news they do now. Is there a happy medium? Perhaps, but it’s not nearly as much fun.
The best and most relevant JavaCast is the Bruce Tate interview we did two months ago regarding Beyond Java, a book that I predicted in the interview with Bruce would be huge and I was right.
He is a great guy, and I think it’s making a lot of people take a new look at how much longer Java has in the world. Luckily for Sun, they have two huge things going for them now, Java and Solaris, and I think Solaris will be their new claim to fame for mass adoption.
I am a huge fan of Jonathan Schwartz, and I don’t know why. Yes I do. I relate to him. He mouths off and fights and scraps no matter who he is with or sitting in front of, and he is always excited about the new ideas, even if they get ridiculed. He might be too big for Sun to be honest, I’d love to see him have a higher profile. The tech industry desperately needs more people that can tell Tim O’Reilly to go to hell. Jonathan called almost every bluff poor Tim tried to throw at him at his Web 2.0 conference. Download the podcast and listen to Jonathan. To those people who are harsh on Jonathan & call him arrogent, I think you’re confusing confidence, which is derived from intelligence, with arrogance, derived from ignorance.
I look forward to the interview.
