For some reason Sun Microsystems didn't pay much attention to it, but at this morning's keynote presentation of James Gosling, the creator of Java, Sun had Bill Joy on stage.

Joy's part in the history of Java is about as big as Gosling's, and his role in the history of high tech is even greater, which earned him the nickname "the other Bill" (the first Bill working in the Seattle area).

Joy is one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems who only in 2003  left the company and has since joined  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the same venture capital firm that back in 1982 helped fund Sun Microystems.

Joy shuns public performances, which is probably the reason why Sun didn't make a big fuss about him joining Gosling on stage this morning.

During a panel discussion he talked about the early days of Java and got to throw in his two cents about the future of computing. But the panel didn't get much further than 'computers are getting faster, what will we do with that.'

From left to right: James Gosling (Vice president and Sun Fellow), Bill Joy (parnter at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers), Paul Saffo (Director ot the Institute for the Future), Guy Steele (Sun Fellow), Danny Hillis (Co-chairman and Chief Technology Officer with Applied Minds)

The one James,

and the other Bill.

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01 Jul 2005