I had the pleasure of receiving the Duke Award tonight for Sentilla. The Duke Award is given by James Gosling, the father of Java, and is the biggest award that a company can receive. The Duke Award is the only award given out at JavaOne, a conference with hundreds of exhibitors and over 15,000 attendees. The Duke Award goes to Sentilla!

Congrats to Sentilla and the Sentilla team. We have achieved something that no other company has done--putting a full Java system on 8-bit and 16-bit microcontrollers. We have opened this world up to Java programmers, a huge accomplishment. On behalf of myself and Rob and Cory, we are so proud of "achieving the impossible". I remember when, 3 years ago, our advisors told us that Java was not possible on miniature pervasive computers. 10kb memory and Java? Yes. We proved Java is possible and the way to go. Today is a proud day -- we have proved everyone wrong. We have put Java on the world's smallest computers. Java runs with no compromises -- we have not pared anything back. If your application runs on any other certified Java ME system, it will work with Sentilla.

James Gosling talking about the impact of Java while giving Sentilla the Duke Award...