Shuttleworth made his fortune after starting an Internet security firm in his parents' garage and selling it four yearslater for hundredsof millions of dollars.
Fourteen yearslater, and after investing hundredsof millions of dollars and enduring yearsof criticism from skeptics in the industry, Netsuite now finds itself as one of the handful of business application providers who are offering a full suite of mature and time-tested, cloud-based applications to the SMB market.