Not to Google's Mark Lucovsky, who wrote much of Microsoft's computer server software before leaving last year.
Both quit their jobs at Dazel, an Austin-based designer of client-server software, to start their own Internet software firm.
It is really a hodgepodge of different products including server software, Visual Studio, Windows Embedded device platforms and consulting services.
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Twonky Beam is part of Packet Video's full suite of connected home products, which includes the flagship Twonky Server software.
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Microsoft is reportedly readying a new version of its Windows desktop and server software that will run on ARM processors.
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Microsoft now offers a cheap version of its Windows Server software specifically for use on web servers, to compete better with Linux.
Nokia, which now claims it created "more than 50%" of the wireless protocol, has its own server software and will compete with Phone.com.
We're working with the cable industry and the telco industry on that piece and then we do all this server software for them.
And most importantly, they're riding a new product cycle that's driven by Windows 7, the new version of Microsoft Office and new server software.
He also oversaw the development of NCSA Mosaic--the Web browser that led to Netscape Navigator--as well as the popular open-source server software known as Apache.
Customers will soon have the choice of running Microsoft's business programs, such as its mail-server software, Exchange, on their own computers or in the cloud.
The pages load quickly because a lot of the heavy lifting is done by Danger's server software before the pages are delivered to the handheld.
In the summer of 2005, Charlie Miller was working in his living room when he discovered a hackable vulnerability in a common species of server software.
Some, like Slim Devices' SqueezeBox, focus only on music and even come with server software that can serve the same music to multiple devices simultaneously.
It has 95% market share in the productivity software market, 75% share in the operating system market and approximately 75% share in the server software market.
In August 2000, the commission sent a so-called statement of objections to Microsoft, asking it to account for its behaviour in the market for server software.
Sun's applications server strategy became somewhat hazy after the acquisition, when, as a spin-off of America Online's (AOL)purchase of Netscape Communications, Sun acquired Netscape's application server software.
In 2001, Caldera acquired the server software and services businesses of Santa Cruz Operations, a Unix software company founded in 1979, using money from a successful IPO.
The camera shoots MPEG-4 video at a rate of 30 frames per second and includes an integrated Web server software package, an integrated microphone and a motion detection sensor.
For its part, Microsoft has spent considerable time and energy tamping down security problems with its own products, from NT and other server software to its Internet Explorer browser.
Ballmer said the shift to online software and services will mean changes for all of Microsoft's businesses, which range from desktop productivity tools to database and e-mail server software.
In high school, Maples started writing video games for PCs and then went to Stanford where his room-mate was Joe Liemandt, who founded client-server software maker, Trilogy Software, in Austin.
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But instead of holding a monopoly over his design and licensing it to phone makers, Rossman now faces dozens of rivals as he builds a new business selling server software and applications under the WAP standard.
Samsung Electronics' award-winners include products in the TV, home theater system, mobile phone, tablet, home appliance, server, software, and computer component categories.
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Both consisted of two parts, a client component running on the Cisco 819 router designed to handle machine to machine (M2M) communications and server based software which handles various tasks, such as data analytics.
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On Sun's part, the acquisition gives the server and software company a database offering that is capable of storing and manipulating the information used by its software tools, a role it has largely handed to Oracle.
Instead of one PC client hosted on one server, virtualization software allows companies to host many PCs on a single server, cutting total IT energy costs.
It is also a recognition that Microsoft contends in a world where companies like Amazon and Google offer a lot of Microsoft-type server and operational software, through cloud-based services.
Yes, I realize that Microsoft has a 95% share of the office application market and its server and networking software is the most popular, secure and reliable out there.
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