JDJ: Can you describe Penumbra software? How it's organized, its officers and
its major product or products?
MM: We are a relatively small, privately held company. The officers include
myself, Glenn Fromer, who is the Chief Financial Officer, and Fereydoun
Taslimi, who is the Chief Technology Officer. Penumbra has been in business
since February of 1996.
JDJ: Who does your development work?
MM: If I had to characterize the company right now, we are still extremely
heavy as a technology company. We have five programmers who do the
development work. Everything is done in-house. We don't farm anything out.
JDJ: And it is all done in Java?
MM: All of our software is done in Java. Basically, our mission is to produce
a Java tool and objects that go into that tool.
JDJ: And that's Super Mojo, right?
MM: Yes.
JDJ: Could you describe Super Mojo for those readers who may not hav... (more)
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 method to determine, through
electrical measurements, the presence of oil and gas in subsurface rock
formations. The technique, which became known as well logging, utilizes
sophisticated instrum... (more)
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 Busin... (more)
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 happened with client/server was a major marketplace shift.
The IT community, the developer community, if you will, decided over the
course of maybe one or two years that the right way to build applicati... (more)
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 service is co-location tied to a unique business model and
with our own proprietary facilities, tools, technology and service. We now
have facilities in San Jose, California and Washington, D.C and we... (more)