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IBM's Patricia Sueltz on Java
by Jim Fawcette
February 11, 1998
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Patricia Cary Sueltz is General Manager of Java Software at IBM
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Patricia Sueltz, General Manager of Java Software for IBM, is in a unique position to comment on the status and future of the language. She is one of a small group inside IBM that drove that company to bet heavily on Java. Sueltz manages 250 programmers that create all of IBM's virtual machines, and in her previous position of Vice President of Internet Software, was involved in the company's servers, Visual Age development environment, and other Java tools.
Sueltz's background includes a stint in a theological seminary, yet she refers to herself as a "former hard hat," from a job climbing telephone poles stringing cable for California's Pacific Telesis. She has travelled a long way from that eclectic past, however; she's now an 18-year IBM veteran who has contributed to such key products as the MQSeries middleware and CICS. She's been referred to as a "change agent" at IBM (Fast Company magazine, Issue 11, October/November 1997, p.182) and it's not difficult to understand, given her clarity and conviction about where technology and business are headed.
Sueltz shared her views in an interview with Jim Fawcette, Fawcette Technical Publications President, held in Munich, Germany, February 11, 1998, during the OOP Conference presented by SIGS GmbH.
This interview is edited for conciseness and expression. Click on one of these topics to read portions of interest:
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