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   An interview with Ray Ozzie

   with Ray Ozzie on Apr 12, 2001

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   16 min

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Ray Ozzie is Chief Software Architect at Microsoft. He was formerly best known for his role in creating Lotus Notes.

He received his bachelor’s degree in computer science in 1979 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he worked on the PLATO system, and began his working career at Data General Corporation. After leaving Data General, Ozzie worked at Software Arts for Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, the creators of VisiCalc, on that product and TK Solver. Shortly thereafter, he was recruited by Sachs and Mitch Kapor to work for Lotus Development to develop what became Lotus Symphony. Ozzie left Lotus Development in 1984 and founded Iris Associates to create the product later sold by Lotus as Lotus Notes. Iris Associates was acquired by Lotus in 1994, and Lotus itself was acquired by IBM in 1995. Ozzie worked there for several years before leaving to form Groove Networks. Groove was acquired by Microsoft in 2005, where Ozzie became one of three Chief Technical Officers. On June 15, 2006, Ozzie took over the role of Chief Software Architect from Bill Gates.

Source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Ozzie