Java Champion
In September 2005, Dr Heinz Kabutz was honored by being awarded the coveted
title
Java
Champion by an international panel of Java leaders.
There are currently less than a hundred Java Champions world
wide, out of a pool of 6 000 000 Java developers
worldwide. Dr Kabutz is the only South African Java Champion.
He is currently resident in Greece on the Island of Crete.
Matt Thompson, director of Sun Developer Network, says in a
recent article on Java
Developer's Journal, the idea is to build "a community of Java Champions
that reflects the top echelon of contributors to the Java Community." And
he goes further: "I look at these folks as the heroes of the Java platform
... These folks are truly both a wealth of knowledge for us to tap into, as
well as a great resource to work with in making the Java platform easier to
adopt worldwide."
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