Open Software Foundation chief scientist Ira Goldstein is returning to his former employer Hewlett-Packard Co as Internet technology officer and CTO of HP’s Computer Systems Organization. Goldstein has headed OSF’s Research Institute since it was founded in 1988 which is credited with development of OSF’s Mach-based operating system, distributed computing environment (DCE) and web technologies […]
Open Software Foundation chief scientist Ira Goldstein is returning to his former employer Hewlett-Packard Co as Internet technology officer and CTO of HP’s Computer Systems Organization. Goldstein has headed OSF’s Research Institute since it was founded in 1988 which is credited with development of OSF’s Mach-based operating system, distributed computing environment (DCE) and web technologies and more recently the JavaLite operating system. The newly created positions mean Goldstein will be driving HP’s so-far rather lackluster Internet strategy and formulating HP’s future technology architecture. He’ll report to Rich Belluzzo, executive VP and general manager of HP’s computer organization. Goldstein was previously research and development manager for HP’s former technical systems sector. Before that he worked at Xerox PARC. Together with X/Open Co Ltd, OSF is now part of the Open Group, whose acting CEO, Jim Bell, is on-loan from his position as HP director of corporate alliances. Goldstein is replaced by Paul Dale who becomes Open Group VP responsible for all activities of what’s now called the Open Group Research Institute, which is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Grenoble, France. Dale was previously responsible for the day-to-day running of the Institute’s Cambridge facility. Dale, a seven-year OSF veteran, was a founder and VP development of Applix Inc. In his new role Goldstein’s expected to be one of the Research Institute’s largest customers. OSF said it was inevitable that Goldstein would one day return to HP which liked what he was doing so much they wanted him back.
