Another possibility is George Bosworth, father of the Digitalk VM, who joined
MS last year, if memory serves

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johnm at wdi.disney.com on 10/30/98 04:22:52 PM
Please respond to squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
To: wirth at almaden.ibm.com
cc: johnm at wdi.disney.com, kend at apple.com, wirth at almaden.ibm.com,
squeak at limbo.create.ucsb.edu
Subject: Re: FYI: Microsoft Universal VM to Challange Java


wirth at almaden.ibm.com wrote:
> "... in a little-noticed move, Microsoft acquired Colusa Software Inc. in
> 1996. Colusa makes OmniVM, a multiple-language virtual machine."
> http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/prtarchivestory/0,4356,367513,00.html

Interesting. That could be where Microsoft got their first Java VM.
The timing seems just about perfect.

 -- John