Charles Nutter

Charles Nutter

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Charles Oliver Nutter co-leads the JRuby project and is one of the three core developers. He joined Sun Microsystems in September 2006 and has since worked to improve and advance JRuby and other dynamic language support on the JVM. Charles has developed in Java for the past decade as well as having written Windows and .NET applications. Before coming to Sun, Charles was a lead Java EE architect, and now hopes to make dynamic languages ready for enterprise Java platform development.

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7:30pm Friday, 05/30/2008
Meet the Sun You Don't Know
Keynote
 Location: Portland Ballroom
Charles Nutter (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
You think Sun is the Java company. Enterprise Edition. Steak and strippers. But Java's only part of the story, and the story is changing every day. In ten minutes, you'll get a whirlwind tour of a different Sun, one that gives hardware breaks to startups, open sources cornerstone software like Solaris, OpenJDK, ZFS and DTrace, and actively funds Ruby projects on and off the JVM. Read more.
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