Sun's Unconventional Thinkers Contrarian Minds

Chris Oliver is nothing if not honest and plain spoken. For years he was the lone coder behind a project that would become JavaFX, though at the time he was calling it F3 to signify form follows function. His motivation? "To be honest," he says, "the motivation was I couldn't get along with my boss." This was at SeeBeyond, a company doing business integration software (a company that would soon be acquired by Sun). More