Java Spotlight Episode 77: Donald Smith on the OpenJDK and Java

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An interview with Donald Smith about Java and OpenJDK.

Joining us this week on the Java All Star Developer Panel are Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador and Arun Gupta, Java EE Guy.

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Events

April 4-5, JavaOne Japan, Tokyo, Japan
April 11, Cleveland JUG, Cleveland, OH
April 12, GreenJUG, Greenville, SC
April 17-18, JavaOne Russia, Moscow Russia
April 18–20, Devoxx France, Paris, France
April 17-20, GIDS, Bangalore
April 21, Java Summit, Chennai
April 26, Mix-IT, Lyon, France,
May 3-4, JavaOne India, Hyderabad, India
May 5, Bangalore, Pune, ?? - JUG outreach
May 7, OTN Developer Day, Mumbai
May 8, OTN Developer Day, Delhi

Feature Interview

Donald Smith, MBA, MSc, is Director of Product Management for Oracle. He brings worldwide enterprise software experience, ranging from small "dot-com" through Fortune 500 companies. Donald speaks regularly about Java, open source, community development, business models, business integration and software development politics at conferences and events worldwide including Java One, Oracle World, Sun Tech Days, Evans Developer Relations Conference, OOPSLA, JAOO, Server Side Symposium, Colorado Software Summit and others. Prior to returning to Oracle, Donald was Director of Ecosystem Development for the Eclipse Foundation, an independent not-for-profit foundation supporting the Eclipse open source community.

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