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Evangelism: a theologian will address JavaOne techies ...

We know that software wars are religious wars. But it's going a bit further ... the keynote speaker who will kick off this year's JavaOne conference and exhibition in San Francisco is not just a veteran of IBM, and a respected technology leader known as "the driving force behind Sun's software systems business.

Sniffer has discovered that Patricia Sueltz, who will be speaking at the opening session on Monday (9.30 AM Pacific time) is no ordinary software evangelist.

As well as being Executive Vice President and General Manager, Software Systems Group for Sun, and having spent twenty years with IBM in senior software management, Patricia has a past with a difference when it comes to high tech.

On graduating (Sniffer is far too much of a gentlemouse to reveal when) she was awarded one of 32 Rockefeller Fellowships - "for nontraditional thought in theology."

Theology has taken some strange turns in recent years, but this is the first time we've heard hints that software development is of interest to Deity. Perhaps there's more to these software daemons than we realised?