Welcome to Profiles
Profiles takes an up-close and personal look at a successful participant in the Java community. We look at developers, entrepreneurs and trend-setters who help to mold the high-tech world.

November 11, 1998
John Gage: Sun's voice to the outside world
John Gage has gone from a leader of the anti-war movement in the Sixties to the leader of a worldwide movement to provide Internet access to schools in the Nineties -- in between, he's found the time to represent the scientific efforts of Sun Microsystems to everyone.

July 1, 1998
Rick Ross: advocate for developers
Like a lot of Java developers, Rick Ross was discouraged by the clash of the corporate titans. Unlike some of his peers, though, Ross set out to make things right -- he founded the Java Lobby.

June 3, 1998
Tickled pink by Ousterhout
The father of Tool Command Language (Tcl), John Ousterhout has taken his creation from its birth at UC Berkeley, through growing pains at Sun and now to life at a start-up company.

April 8, 1998
Ted Schlein -- investing in the future
As the partner at successful venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins in charge of the Java Fund, Ted Schlein is a modern-day guardian angel. He takes a precious few companies under the prestigious KP wing and then takes them, hopefully, to the top.

March 11, 1998
Sun didn't set on Arthur van Hoff
From Java developer to CTO of Marimba, Arthur van Hoff has stayed in the forefront of Internet technology.