WebLogic history an interview with Laurie Pitman by Qualogy
- by JuergenKress
All
those years that I am working with WebLogic, the BEA and Oracle era are
the most well known about WebLogic evolving into a worldwide Enterprise
platform for Java applications, being used by multinationals around the
globe.
But how did it all begin? Besides from the spare info you
find on some Internet pages, I was eager to hear it in person from one
of the founders of WebLogic back in 1995, before the BEA era, Laurie
Pitman.
Four young people, Carl Resnikoff, Paul Ambrose, Bob
Pasker, and Laurie Pitman, became friends and colleagues about the time
of the first release of Java in 1995. Between the four of them, they had
an MA in American history, an MA in piano, an MS in library systems, a
BS in chemistry, and a BS in computer science. They had come together
kind of serendipitously, interested in building some web tools
exclusively in Java for the emerging Internet web application market.
They found many things to like about each other, some overlap in our
interests, but also a lot of well-placed differences which made a
partnership particularly interesting. They made it formal in January
1996 by incorporating. Read the complete article here.
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