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,