Scott Davison

On July 23, 1996, JDJ interviewed Mansour Safai, General Manager, Internet Tools Division, Symantec Corp. JDJ: Could you please introduce yourself and your organization to our readers? MS: I am the General Manager of the Internet Tools Division at Symantec Corporation. Symantec has a number of business units. Probably the most well known ones are Norton Utilities, Norton Antivirus, Delrina, and Symantec Contact Management - ACT! software. We are in the same company as the others and we receive the same services, but we are a separate business unit called the Internet Tools Business unit. We are basically a small entrepreneurial group that is dedicated to and focused on developing tools for the Internet platforms. Right now we have a very large focus on Java and this mean... (more)

World Class Housing for Web Servers

JDJ: Could you describe your company, how it is organized and your position? CS: My name is Chuck Scifers and I am the Marketing Manager for AboveNet Communications, Inc. AboveNet Communications, Inc. is divided into three product lines: one is WebCondo, another is ISPCondo and the third is MicroWeb Condo. In essence, we provide nonstop, noncongested connectivity to the Internet. This serv... (more)

David Litwack of Silverstream

JDJ: Congratulations on the new company. You took Powersoft to the top of the client/server software development platform. Do you see yourself doing the same thing at SilverStream for the Java development environments? DL: It is probably a good place to start by talking about what is happening in the marketplace because I think market shifts are what this industry is all about. What happen... (more)

The World in Your Wallet

JDJ: For those readers who aren't familiar with Schlumberger Electronic Transactions, could you please give us a short history of your corporate background and structure plus your own responsibilities? TL: Schlumberger has been in business since the late 1920s. The company was founded based on a new technology developed by Conrad and Marcel Schlumberger, two French brothers who invented a ... (more)

First Look at PointBase, Inc

In early 1998, Bruce Scott, one of the cofounders of both Oracle Corporation and Gupta Technology, opened the doors of his fourth start-up company. With this one, PointBase, Scott returned to his database roots with a simple but ambitious business plan: develop the next generation of database software for managing data anywhere on the Net. Specifically, the database should serve applicat... (more)