Brief Description: Co-founder of Ximian, now with Novell
Further Details:
Mexican-born Miguel de Icaza, the free software programmer best known for co-founding the Gnome, Ximian, and Mono projects, joined Novell when it acquired Ximian last year. Ximian had its genesis in the GNOME project, which was initiated by Miguel and others in 1997 by de Icaza, who is now Vice President of Product Technology at Novell.
The Mono Project is an effort to build an open-source implementation of the Microsoft .NET Framework using the technical documents that Microsoft submitted to ECMA (the European Computer Manufacturers Association) for standarization.
As the founder and leader of the GNOME Foundation, de Icaza is rightly deemed one of the foremost luminaries in the Linux development community. With his seemingly boundless energy, he has galvanized the effort to make Linux accessible and available to the average computer user.
He brought this same excitement to his role as CTO of Ximian, where he was instrumental in porting Linux to the SPARC architecture and led development of the Midnight Commander file manager and the Gnumeric spreadsheet. He was also a primary author of the design of the Bonobo component model, which leads the way in the development of large-scale applications in GNOME.
de Icaza was the first recipient of the prestigious MIT Innovator of the Year award in 1999 and continues to reach out globally by working with international organizations such as eMexico to introduce affordable technology alternatives, like Linux, to other nations.
Other SYS-CON reasources featuring Miguel de Icaza:
About Jeremy Geelan Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo series, of the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo and founder of Web 2.0 Journal, AJAXWorld Magazine and other major SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL NEWSLETTERS
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR RSS FEEDS & GET YOUR SYS-CON NEWS LIVE!
Click to Add our RSS Feeds to the Service of Your Choice:
.gif)
