Mike Hoskins, Pervasive CTO and General Manager of the Integration division, takes us back to the days when Pervasive engineers, tasked with developing a massively scaling hyperparallel data pump to run on abundantly inexpensive parallel hardware, debated in a common debate of the time: what language to write it in. For the many reasons Mike points out in this podcast, their choice was Java – and it’s a decision Mike says he’s never regretted for a second – especially given today’s multicore hardware environment.