Scott Davison

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)

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 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)

JDJ Interview: Mansour Safai

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)

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 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)

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 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)