Data General - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• DJ Delorie designed PC motherboards and BIOS code for Data General for four years. He authored DJGPP, and currently works for Red Hat on GCC.
• Peter Darnell was a developer of DG/L and went on to develop C compilers for Unix and Windows. He wrote a book on C and is the developer of the visual programming language VisSim by Visual Solutions.
• Jean-Louis Gassée was with Data General in France before moving to Apple Computer and Be Inc.
• Dave Mahoney founded Banyan Systems and pioneered Local Area network technologies in late 1980s along with Novell.
• Craig Mundie was a software developer at Data General. He is now Chief Technologist at Microsoft.
• Mike Nash worked on AOS/VS kernel virtual terminal services for PCI and today is a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft.
• Ray Ozzie was a software developer at Data General. He subsequently worked for Software Arts, Lotus Development, Iris Associates, and Groove Networks. Groove Networks was acquired by Microsoft in 2005, and Ozzie has replaced Bill Gates as chief software architect at Microsoft.
• Jonathan Sachs co-founded Lotus Development where he authored 1-2-3.
• Jit Saxena founded Netezza, search technology company
• Christopher Stone founded Object Management Group (created CORBA) and became Vice Chairman/CEO of Novell.
• Mark Townsend was a manager in the Xodiac Networking group who is now an Executive VP at Skillsoft.
• Asher Waldfogel was a software engineer in Special Systems who later went on to found Redback Networks, Tollbridge Technologies and PeakStream.
• Joshua Weiss was a manager in the Xodiac Networking group who went on to co-found Prominet (bought by Lucent Technologies) and later was founder and CEO of Nauticus (bought by Sun Microsystems).
• Edward Zander was product marketing manager at Data General before his positions at Apollo Computer, Sun Microsystems and Motorola as their former CEO.