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About Ray Ozzie (Chief Software Architech of Microsoft)

You might want to check this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Ozzie

Extract from that site:

Ray Ozzie (born November 20, 1955) is Chief Software Architect at Microsoft. He was formerly best known for his role in creating Lotus Notes.

He grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois, graduating from Maine South High School in 1973. In high school, he learned to program on a GE-400 mainframe and did technical work on school theater productions.

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 where he worked for Jonathan Sachs. After leaving Data General, Ozzie worked at Software Arts, 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 aquired 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.

You might also want to check whats written about him in Microsoft.com and the interview he gave to Gartner.

His blogspaces are: http://rayozzie.spaces.msn.com/Blog/PersonalSpace.aspx and http://spaces.msn.com/editorial/rayozzie/old/blog/index.html

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Comments

Srini said…
Hmm... what a coincidence!! I linked Ray Ozzie to the same wiki page, and Craig Mundie to the Gartner interview on my post yesterday :) And finally i linked you :)
Vadivel said…
After seeing this comment I went and saw your post :)

It seems you have missed out the fact that Martin Taylor has also resigned from Microsoft recently.

You might want to check this out
http://www.forbes.com/2006/06/21/microsoft-ballmer-taylor-cx_po_0621autofacescan02.html

[I have left the same msg as a comment in ur post also :) ]

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