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I work for Red Hat, where I lead JBoss technical direction and research/development. Prior to this I was SOA Technical Development Manager and Director of Standards. I was Chief Architect and co-founder at Arjuna Technologies, an HP spin-off (where I was a Distinguished Engineer). I've been working in the area of reliable distributed systems since the mid-80's. My PhD was on fault-tolerant distributed systems, replication and transactions. I'm also a Professor at Newcastle University and Lyon.

Tuesday, February 08, 2011

DEC founder dies

It's likely that many of the current generation of developers will never have heard of DEC, but they had a profound impact on the way our industry developers. So it's sad to hear that Ken Olsen has died. The PDP-11 will always have a place in my heart!

1 comment:

Len DiMaggio5:35 pm
Sad news. DEC was a major presence around Boston when I was growing up. When I worked there I once ran into Mr. Olsen. He really did wear badge number 000001.

My badge number was something like 144250. ;-)
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