Brief Description: Famous for Quattro Pro, Microsoft Access, and IE4; then BEA, now Google
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Possessed of one of the foremost minds in modern i-technology, Adam Bosworth was an XML guru for Microsoft Corporation, where he was a general manager in the late 90s, after which he left MS to found Crossgain - a company subsequently bought by BEA Systems.
Interviewed by SYS-CON when he was vice president of engineering of the Frameworks Division at BEA, Bosworth revealed what drives him. "I've spent my life trying to make building applications easy," he said, adding that what attracts him about i-technology is, basically, helping developers build solutions - "developing products, plumbing, or technology to help them build solutions."
He continued: "Whether it was Active Server Pages and the extent of my work at Microsoft, all of which was plumbing, or Access and working on the VB products, I helped them build the application. That's what I like doing."
Bosworth's last activity for BEA involved its mobile "Alchemy" project, which he unveiled personally at the company's 2004 eWorld conference.
He was one of Google's highest-profile new recruits in 2004, along with Joshua Bloch.
About Jeremy Geelan Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, of the all-new Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, of the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo and founder of Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal 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.
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