Microsoft and Citrix Founding Teams
I couldn’t resist this. I’ve recently found the original Microsoft team photo on Wikipedia and thought it would be fun to compare the two companies pictures.
Microsoft 1978
Citrix 1989
Eleven years can make a big difference in fashion and hair! I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.
I was looking for old Citrix pictures on the web and found a link to Gordon Letwin. Gordon was the lead architect for Microsoft on the OS/2 project. Ed Iacobucci was the lead architect for OS/2 on the IBM side. Ed left IBM in 1989 and Gordon left Microsoft in 1993. I’m guessing that they worked together quite a bit. I would also suppose that this would have happened between 1985 and 1989. Many years ago I bought a copy of Inside OS/2 by Gordon Letwin.
You have got to love the cave like appeal with the soft glow of CRT nearby. This cover appealed to me since it really captured the nature of a developer on the track of a really difficult bug. I’m guessing that he was running some variant of CodeView on the screen that he is looking at.
This post was just for fun. Please enjoy.
March 22, 2007 at 2:04 am
OS/2… great piece of software. I still use it at home.
March 26, 2007 at 12:49 am
I’m sure Gordon would be proud to hear this, as would the old-time IBMers that stood behind it.
Thanks for your reply.
October 1, 2008 at 10:32 pm
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