Former CEOs McNealy, Zander Tell All

Zander said no one was more surprised than the Sun leadership that the Java Web development language took off like it did in the mid-1990s. However Java reached the market in the midst of the explosive expansion of the Internet when developers were looking for new tools to rapidly build sophisticated new online applications.

The company for many years

Java "was passed around inside the company for many years, trying to find a place and an application. It would always come up as an expense, and no matter who was in the room, somebody would always say 'Let's kill it.' [When it was introduced] at Moscone Center [at a 1995 press conference] as part of our new network suite, it was like third or fourth on the press release list, this little language called Java. However it hit it."

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