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Apple appoints Tevanian as Chief of Software

updated 12:45 am EDT, Wed July 9, 2003


Apple today announced that Avadis "Avie" Tevanian Jr., Ph.D., will become the company's chief software technology officer and Bertrand Serlet will be promoted to senior vice president of Software Engineering. In his new role, Tevanian will focus on setting company-wide software technology directions, and Serlet will now report directly to Apple CEO Steve Jobs and lead the company's OS Software Engineering group.

Serlet has been Apple's vice president of Platform Technology, managing the largest part of the Mac OS software engineering group. He joined Apple in 1997 and has been a key player in the definition, development and creation of Mac OS X. Before joining Apple, Serlet spent four years at Xerox PARC, then joined NeXT in 1989. Serlet holds a doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Orsay, France.



Tevanian joined Apple in February of 1997 as senior vice president of Software Engineering, and holds a Ph.D. and a Masters of Science degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from the University of Rochester.


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    07/09, 12:57am | report spam | Reply |

    Avie! Avie!

    You're Number One, baby!

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    Avie needs

    a breakfast cereal! I would buy it!!!

    I already buy Ballmer brand laxitives...

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    Does that mean...

    there is an opening at Apple? Where do we send resumes?

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    Let's See...

    The other guy replacing is stepping into some VERY big shoes. I wish him well.

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    heh

    Speaking of Ballmer, this deserves to be posted again....

    http://www.msboycott.com/media/ballmer_developers.mpg

    LOL!

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    and of course

    this one is even better!

    http://www.msboycott.com/media/ballmer_developers_music.mov

    Gotta love it!

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    Here's what it means

    See, if you listened carefully to Jobs' presentation of Panther, he said something to the effect that they "tried long enough from the software's point of view, now it was time for the user's point of view." What a subtle dig at the guy responsible for all the 'nix and NeXT look in OS X! See, so this is kicking the guy upstairs to the corporate suite, so Jobs can completely control software development! In a year, opening a file will involve Finding Nemo, and clicking the mouse will cause a rendition of a song from Toy Story. And-- stop me before I go insane.

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    STOP

    Stop, you're going insane!

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    Re: and of course

    Excellent ! Well, hmm... I don't know if we must laugh or cry. That guy is pathetic. What does he try to do ? Capture the audience attention like Steve Jobs ?

    Also, how does he do it to have such large sweat stains on his shirt ? Does Ballmer spray condensed sweat instead of deodorant ? Does he use a brush or what ? I wonder too why Ballmer is so fat ? I mean, I guess he doesn't have enough of those MS presentations because when you see him act like a chimp on stage, he sure must burn alot of calories right ? At least we see he makes enough money at MS he doesn't have to starve. I almost feared for the poor thing. LOL

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    re: heh

    >http://www.msboycott.com/media/ballmer_developers.mpg

    That is pretty funny. However, it is an impressive size for a developer gathering. I wish WWDC attracted that many people.

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