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Remembering Ed Iacobucci Transcript
September 26, 1953 -- June 21, 2013
The Technology Visionary Who Changed the World, Time and Again
Few recognize just how much one man's vision and leadership have shaped the greatest revolution
that mankind has experienced ... the information age.
This man is Ed Iacobucci (Yak-a-boo-chi). Note: you have correctly pronounced Ed's name
throughout the video very well.
Continue to show the Newsweek image for this next sentence as well:
By the early 1980s, the world had developed computers, computer chips and even the PC.
But it was IBM in South Florida that started the real personal computer revolution with
the ground breaking IBM PC in 1982.
And Ed Iacobucci was already there writing software for it.
In 1987, IBM and Microsoft designed and built the next generation operating system, OS/2,
with Ed leading the joint development team.
OS/2 introduced consumers to multi-tasking and other advanced capabilities that quickly
became the defining standard for modern systems.
Ed left IBM in 1989 to pursue his vision of graphical, server-based computing, founding
Citrix Systems. By 1993, several years before the advent of Web servers, Citrix introduced
WinView-- the world's first Windows server-based computing platform. And thin-client computing
was born.
Then in 1999, Citrix unveiled the first Application Service Provider infrastructure. And once
again, Ed Iacobucci's vision gave rise to the "Software as a Service" movement -- or
what we now call "Cloud Computing."
Today, more than 260,000 organizations and 100 million users benefit daily from their
use of Citrix technologies. The Citrix client software is the third most widely deployed
software system in history surpassed only by Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office.
His last challenge was to tackle the big data frontier -- a by-product of the information
age he helped to create. Ed co-founded VirtualWorks in 2009, serving as Chairman, CEO and President.
So there you have it. Many of the technologies that we now take for granted -- multi-tasking,
system alerts, Windows terminal services, server-based computing, Graphical thin clients,
and Cloud Computing -- were shaped by Ed Iacobucci and his team.
"Every human being has his own vision of what's happening in the future. I was lucky in that
what I thought would happen did happen. When we know we can do it and the rest of the world
doesn't -- that's when things get interesting." Ed Iacobucci, 1998 Ernst & Young International
Entrepreneur of the Year
Remembering Ed Iacobucci
September 26, 1953 -- June 21, 2013
Technology pioneer, serial entrepreneur, visionary, kind-hearted, warm, funny and genuinely great
guy
.
Thank you for daring to change the world, time and again.
Gone, but never forgotten.
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