Last year's position : Not Placed

"What he does is all about software quality." So said one of the more technically-minded members of this year's panel and it's a comment that can't be overestimated. With companies such as IBM/Rational and Borland's TogetherSoft looking to Eclipse - an open source software development project dedicated to providing robust, commercial software - which is managed by Gamma, his influence becomes clearer. Also author of Junit, a de facto standard tool for testing in Java.