Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas's Blog

Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas is a Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems. His general area is in distributed systems, with a specialization in mobility and security. He has spoken on a variety of technical topics at conferences around the world and teaches graduate classes in the evening. He publishes a standards column and represents Sun at a number of standards bodies. He also serves in the organizing committee for several industry-wide technical conferences. Rags brings with him about 15 years of software development experience. He worked for Digital Equipment Corporation before joining Sun. He has worked on several technology areas, including internals of VMS, Unix and NT. Rags holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Center of Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He enjoys running, hiking and eating, especially spicy food.

Cloud Computing and Java

I am moving on from Sun and will be evangelizing the Intuit Partner Platform (IPP), which is a Platform as a Service offering. It does support Java by offering a Flex front end and is geared at small business developers and monetization. [very] Early versions are available at the IPP Workplace. There are some exciting efforts in the pipeline in the near future that I am excited to be involved in.

The Java Platform continues to be strong and the very fact that there is a Java SDK for Microsoft Azure, and force.com's Apex is really Java bears testimony to the fact Java will be a huge player in the cloud. Sun's Project Kenai and other offerings in the pipeline is bound to encompass Java and the recent excitement around Java-friendly scripting languages.

It's been an incredible ride evangelizing Java and other technologies to tens of thousands of developers worldwide and sharing in the energy and enthusiasm. Rather than a indulge in a nostalgic trip, I would prefer to look ahead. As a reviewer for the JavaOne conference, I am already getting excited about the conference just looking at the quantity and quality of the submissions and cannot wait until June.

My LinkedIn Profile is at http://www.linkedin.com/in/ragss and will be great to get LinkedIn or better yet see you in some part of the world!

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