Web 2.0 Heroes: Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers by Bradley L. Jones, Chapter 19

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Quote: “One of the important defining characteristics of the new-style web applications is ‘time to market.”

Learning Expectations:

            I expect to learn how Sun Microsystems together with Bob Brewin and Tim Bray would use the Web 2.0 to help make their company be one of the best out there in the real world. I also expect to learn how Web 2.0 affected the way Sun Microsystems function and do its tasks for the clients and customers.

Review:

The 19^th Chapter of the Web 2.0 E-book is about Sun Microsystems and two of their distinguished engineers, Bob Brewin and Tim Bray. Let us first talk about Bob Brewin, he is the CTO (chief Technology Officer) and Vice President of Sun Software. He works with the top layer of the operating systems of Sun Microsystems. He works on how the software integrates with customers on the things they are working on. He is also much focused on the Inversion of control that pertains about the changes that are happening with them and their clients.

Tim Bray on the other hand, is the director of the web technologies. He works on ideas about dangerous new things that might come up which they can avoid or exploit to their advantage. He told in the interview about the things coming out the edges in the web are the things that are making impact not the things that comes from the center. What the source of power of the web is the contributions it gets from the users. If the users contribute information and knowledge in the web or internet, they are making vast and large quantities of information that people can really use for their works and lives. The information and knowledge that the users give out to the web is something that builds culture and makes the society rich and successful.

Sun Microsystems offers a lot of products and services to their clients. This is a large and plenty of things considering the range of their clients and customers.  They offer these things mainly to students, programmers, and professionals. This assortment of customers lets them provide products and services that would be something relevant to all of them which connects and networks their customers and clients to them. From all of these things, they need to support their clients for quick help and assistance when difficulties arise.

They also offer solutions for businesses that would help the company grow and develop to something that would be effective and efficient for their customers and clients. From all of these products, services, supports, and knowledge that Sun Microsystems provides and offers to the people, the one thing that they aim for is to have a huge network of clients that works as one and is connected with each other. They also give help and knowledge to enterprises to let them know what to do to cope up with the current trends and changes that is happening in the world at the present. They should know what to do if something arises from out of nowhere.

One of the most popular thing about Sun Microsystems is their Java Programming Language. This is a very versatile tool for programmers and developers alike. It can be used to create applications and programs that would be very important and helpful to a business and companies worldwide. There are also the JavaScript, JSP (Java Server Pages), and Java Servlets that people can use in developing in the front or back end of the application. These things can be used by students and professional programmers and developers alike. Why, because we are using these things in our subjects as of now.

The way Sun Microsystems and its employees see the Web 2.0 is different and has lots of varieties. But what it focuses about is the contribution and input of the clients and customers to the web that makes it important and interesting. What the people contribute to the web is something that is unique by its nature. Each one is different from the other that makes all information interesting and fascinating to learn about. Different kinds of people can get different kinds of information and knowledge that they can use for their specific task in hand.

Programmers which are beginners or professionals alike can contribute codes and support to other programmers to help out each other. Chefs can give out recipes to other aspiring chef, cooks, and mothers that want to make something for their friends and family. All in all, people share information and knowledge to others and this information can be something that can change the culture of others. Different kinds of trends can be determined from the web based on what the people are hooked into. The information that people give out on the web can be something out of their experiences, knowledge, and familiarity in life. That makes these information unique from each other and have its own outcome in the end.

Lessons Learned:

I have learned how the Sun Microsystems used the Web 2.0 to be one of the best companies out there together with the help and assistance of their designated engineers namely Bob Brewin and Tim Bray. I have also learned that the Web 2.0 changed the way Sun Microsystems handle their clients and customer by creating a culture of networks that connects each and every of their clients and customers to them.