About ZeroC
ZeroC provides a fast and highly-scalable communications infrastructure for demanding technical applications, such as telecom, defense, finance, on-line entertainment, manufacturing, and process control. ZeroC's core product is Ice, the Internet Communications Engine. Ice is one of the most versatile and powerful object middleware platforms ever.
With an aggressive, no-nonsense licensing model for the Open Source community (GPL, the GNU General Public License), in addition to traditional proprietary licensing models for commercial customers, ZeroC aims to establish Ice as the leading technical middleware product.
ZeroC Staff
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Marc Laukien is President and Founder of ZeroC. Marc has many years of experience in distributed computing. Before designing Ice, Marc wrote one of the most successful CORBA implementations in the market, and helped numerous companies to successfully implement distributed computing technology. Marc holds a Diploma in Electrical Engineering and Information Science from the Technical University of Munich. |
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Bernard Normier is Vice President of ZeroC, and also our database and transaction specialist. Before taking over the development of Freeze, Bernard integrated CORBA with all kinds of databases, and authored the standard integration between the OMG Transaction Service and XA resource managers. Bernard holds an Engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications of Paris. |
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Michi Henning is Chief Scientist of ZeroC. From 1995 to 2002, he worked on CORBA as a member of the Object Management Group's Architecture Board, and as an ORB implementer, consultant, and trainer. He is the co-author of Advanced CORBA Programming with C++ and Distributed Programming with Ice. Michi holds an Honors degree in Computer Science from the University of Queensland, Australia. |
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Matthew Newhook has extensive experience in distributed application development, including co-development of a CORBA ORB and the design of highly-performant notification and transaction middleware. Matthew has worked on all aspects of Ice, with special focus on IceStorm. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Memorial University of Newfoundland. |
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Mark Spruiell has been involved in object middleware technology for many years, initially as a user developing atmospheric research applications at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He has spent the past ten years designing middleware and middleware services. Mark holds an Honors degree in Computer Science from San Jose State University. |
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Benoit Foucher's career in distributed computing started with the design and development of various CORBA-based telecommunications products. Benoit also co-authored one of the most successful CORBA ORBs. At ZeroC, Benoit designed and developed IceGrid, the Ice server activation and deployment tool. Benoit holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Rennes University, France. |
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Dwayne Boone has years of experience in distributed programing as both a user and implementer of middleware products. In his work with one of the leading CORBA vendors he helped develop a small fast version of their ORB for use in embedded applications. He has also gained extensive experience using Ice from a project with which he was recently involved. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland. |
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José Gutíerrez de la Concha has years of experience in distributed programming and has been developing applications with Ice from its earliest versions. He holds a Higher National Diploma in Computer Software Engineering from ESI University in Spain. |