He is a vice president and Fellow at Sun Microsystems, in addition to being a researcher on software development tools. He also has contributed to the Real-Time Specification for Java. This is remarkably close to truth. Which has turned out to be a remarkably important thing, especially with people building these large distributed systems that are spread over all kinds of machines, from Solaris boxes to AIX boxes to NT boxes, to cell phones and point of sale terminals, all the way up and down the food chain. The same person could work all over the place, and that gives you both kind of a career-mode mobility within the project.
People get to see the whole project.
You can actually get a systemic view to what goes on. This is sort of a way for you to line up in front of you a cell phone, a desktop, and a Big Hunk server, and they all kind of look the same. No expectations of such a life. I've even got the e-mail somewhere. I think maybe if I could get 10,000 people to try it out and write a program, I'd call it a success.