Sunday, February 13, 2011

Philip kan

This theory Academy purely which, while true in many cases, but each theory Coazha, and today we take this matter through the story of Frenchman Philippe was born on March 16, 1952, the genius is too early, which created the more famous company Borland for the software, the company that emerged from generation The first of programmers Arabs learn to programs in programming languages Turbo Pascal and Turbo C and Delphi, including programs to Paradox database management and many others.Philip earned a doctorate in mathematics from the French Academy of Sciences, and the work of teaching for a short period after graduation, then learn the programming language Pascal directly by the inventor in the city of Zurich. Philip entered the realm of work in the field of information technology before its inception in the mid-seventies of the last century, when he worked as a programmer in France on a Mikral a name, which is termed by historians as the harbingers of the emergence of micro computer or a small personal computer. (The word computer and then call this giant machine that is running several rooms and in need of electrical energy sufficient small town, and special cooling stations).Traveled Philip to the United States of America on a visit he wants them to work there, was his first job in the coefficient of Hewlett Packard (HP today), but this job lasted for three days only, after the company discovered that he had submitted the country's Visa to visit and therefore can not assigned full-time , but they could use him as an expert technician, which was approved by Philippe Hui, establishing a technical consulting firm that he called the Market Time, which carried the first three letters MIT, similar to the Institute with technical Masatcz months in the world. Interestingly, the job interview that this was based on Philip versed in arranging the information in the ranks of Queuing which is a lie Astdrkha Philip to spend long nights Nerd effort where this new technology until he became an expert in already - Philip evil!Of course, has not been given the name of his company's satisfaction at the Institute of famous officials, who sent a strongly worded message to the company arising out of requests to change the name otherwise. Encounter at the same time that Philip was a quote from the draft requested by the Irish company which bore the name of Borland, originated in 1980 and then went bankrupt, leaving debts of deep did not pay him, Vastraha Philip in 1983 compared to forget the debt and gets its name, assets and property. Thus becoming the company bearing the name of Borland officially.Philip believes that everyone is focused on the applications of accounting and writing, leaving the programming is free, so wanted to be covered by the programming language Pascal on the computers in IBM's famous, and he wanted application requires an area of small memory to work, and depends on the interface elegant and, most importantly of all this: speed running great. This idea was difficult - even impossible - to the application at the time, but he did it in November 1983 when it was Turbo Pascal programmers only four effort. As usual, Sahar Philip night long to put design first Declaration of the programming language Turbo Pascal, and deliberately to trick the other, when the official called sell ads in the magazine concerned with the affairs of computers, and demonstrated that he has offers ads from other magazines, what was the seller intelligent but that the presentation of the Philip deployment declaration first and then catch the price later. This idea proved successful and anxiety later.Wanted Philip also held a press conference for his new show to coincide with the exhibition Comdex American, but he was worn out money, so deliberately to the idea of the smartest, announced the press conference at McDonald's fast food, which is not Tstahjnh the press, and was attended by a journalist in Byte magazine America, who returned to write in three consecutive issues for the programming language charming wonderful ...Of course, as wildfire accept people madly to the new language, which was sold at a low price (49.99) dollars, while the languages of similar sold thousands and hundreds of dollars, during the two years was Borland has sold 300 thousand copies of Turbo Pascal, and turned from a company staffed by four individuals to the company has one hundred employees.Did not clear the world of a genius long, despite his successes in the world of programming work, despite his struggle with the giants of software such as Lotus and Microsoft, but Philip was to dispense with his services after 12 years spent as director, in 1994 a decision of the shareholders, after that started his company in the distance playing the tone profit and began to incur losses heavy, and the resolutions failed (such as buying a company Ashton-Tate and its famous de bes Pro for $ 439 million drained the company's liquidity, and delayed Borland to ask a copy of the database program that works on Windows, as well as building a building for the company cost a hundred million dollars, etc.) thanks to dispense with him.Failure does not detract from metals successful men, so Philip continued in his path and founded another company called Star Fish StarFish Software specializes in wireless applications for the transfer and exchange of information. When his wife gave their daughter Sophie, the couple wanted to exchange photos of beautifully small with the rest of the family over the phone not the computer, and this was the moment of birth of the idea of serving exchange photos via mobile phones in the form of MMS MMS and the birth of his third, as Philip was a digital camera in hand, and mobile phone in the other hand, and such positions do not pass on the mentality like a shiny, natural logical question would be why is not mixing the two machines together?In June 1997, Philip had completed the prototype of the mobile phone with a digital camera, to sell the Star Fish, after three and a half years from inception of $ 253 million to Motorola Inc. in 1998. Philip kept the location manager for the Star Fish, and after the establishment of new Crkiih: Lite Cerf, Open Grid, and then follow them with his company the fourth and current "Volpaor", founded with his wife in 2003. It is worth mentioning that the application of digital image capture based on algorithms to compress these images to occupy less volume, these algorithms were the subject of study in his thesis Philip, also based in Kodak's digital cameras have software designed by Philip.




Do not interpret badly Philip always been successful, he admits having committed administrative errors are many, such as his project for the design of a personal digital assistant can be worn, and then put it in the socket connection with your laptop to update the data and then returning to wear, and error Philip - also tells us himself - that he sold the right to exploit his invention This company could not market it to the desired shape, which resulted because preceded by Palm Palm Bmsaadha digital.For the day, is still Philip users of his former company, Borland Software, and still mentions them all the best, but still supported. Borland today tend to focus on the provision of programming environment and development of large-sized companies, which know that excellence comes in the area of applications development IDE environments, especially the programming language Delphi, which has many devotees. Borland may not be met with a better fate of the company Netscape, but they remain among the victims of Microsoft, they persevere to get out of rebounding.What lessons emerge from and through the story of Philip:Borland lost the battle for Microsoft because it deviated from the creativity and innovation, as their positions were not aligned properly with the increasing size, not in harmony with the market positively.At the beginning, use a new marketing weapon Philip, sold programming language great low price, I learned the lesson from Microsoft, and has supplied in the form of a database program at $ 99, while the price of a product similar Borland $ 795.Borland since the exit of the sphere of competition, I stopped Microsoft (as usual) for innovation and creativity, especially in the area worksheets (Spread - Shit), and possibly databases, any company that Microsoft is creating only when there is competition, which is detrimental to the users

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