The Remedy against Bike Shedding

An airhacks.fm conversation with Wolfgang Weigend (@wolflook)
about: Atari 520 ST over XT 286, Motorola 68000 and C-Compilers for
Atari 520 ST, first software company in 1987, Systems Engineer for
Java and GraalVM, electronic engineer at Dupont, GSI in Darmstadt,
writing networking software and an ERP system from scratch,
controlling laser light shows, how to create noise with electronic
devices, modis was succeeded by KHK / sage, learning enterprises by
joining Oracle, analysing network stacks, optimising databases on
Texas Instruments, joining Sun Microsystems in 1997, evangelising
Java at Sun Microsystems, the challenge of buying a Sun Sparc
Station, learning Java at Sun Microsystems, Java case study for
German Railways, no one wanted to use Java on the server side,
NetDynamics vs. Java Web Server, joining BEA after WebLogic
acquisition, Andy Piper wrote clustering for WebLogic, BEA was the
fastest growing company, Oracle bought BEA in October 2008,
Deutsche Bank online banking system, and several hundreds projects
at Deutsche Bahn were Java / WebLogic based, DHL and Deutsche Post
were also heavy Java / BEA users, J2EE and Java EE allow developers
focus on real problems, Java EE is a remedy against bike shedding,

Wolfgang Weigend on twitter: @wolflook