I was working for Ericsson doing a very boring job. This, of course, is the now famous Kaffe implementation. While working on that project he realized there was demand for Java in a number of different markets. They moved to California to form Transvirtual to commercialize Kaffe. At the end of 1999, while working on the Itsy project with Compaq, they started to put the Ice Web browser on a PDA under Java.
Most applications tend to be point and click anyway, and that's what the Web is.
It was this model that Transvirtual decided was the right way to handle PDAs. They went out to raise money on their own, started talking to hardware vendors, and started work on PocketLinux. PocketLinux is a stripped down version of the Linux kernel and Kaffe, the Java virtual machine we wrote. The initial debut was at LinuxWorld San Jose in 2000. Response has been strong, and not just from PDA vendors.