Kim Polese

Java and software distribution. Polese was the product manager at Sun Microsystems who led the launch of Java in 1995, working with James Gosling's team. In 1996 she co-founded Marimba with three Java engineers to build Castanet, software that pushed applications and updates automatically to many computers over the internet. Marimba listed in 1999, and its approach to managed software updates is now standard.