Re: [nukkad] IT market dry but only for half-baked competences.

[Ram Rao <>]

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How long have we known Java?

In 1995, when I was managing the Desktop and UNIX computing practice at Larsen & Toubro Information Systems
Division group of software professionals at Larsen & Toubro Limited, our sales manager in the US East Coast
informed me of a new hardware-independent language processor being worked on at Sun. They called it Java. Sun
Microsystems officially launched Java on Tuesday, 23rd May 1995.

Our first opportunity to work with Java came in November 1995 at Harris Corp., Florida, a communications and
network support equipment provider. We built a help-desk application.
The original Java stuff came to us in a Unix tar archive. It included the original Java spec in PostScript
form, a compiler and byte-code interpreter for Sun Sparc and a web browser called HotJava.

As our PCs did not have PostScript software, we printed the Java spec through our HP laserjet with an add-on
PostScript hardware cartridge. Our first Java development station at L&T, Powai, Bombay was operational in
November 1995. Our first Java offshore projects all came from Japan in early 1996. Matsushita and Casio were
among our honored O-kyakusama in 1996.

In my humble memory, India has software professionals with over 5 years of Java experience!
Ram [ramrao@bajirao.com]

Ashish.Shah@firstchoice.co.uk wrote:

> Hi..
> It is very difficult to find people with core experience in java b'coz of
> the simple reason that Java was not matured when it entered in Market 5
> years ago...And even in 1997 i saw some Ads. saying 'People required with 2
> years Java Exp"..Now Java was 2 year old at that time then that too in
> US...


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