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Serlet, often called the "father of Mac OS X," joined late co-founder Steve Jobs at NeXT in 1989 and continued on to Apple before retiring in 2011 to reportedly "focus less on products and more on science."
It was reported late last month that Serlet had been working with at least two other former Apple employees on a cloud computing startup called "Upthere." Located in Palo Alto, Calif., the company is described as a cloud hosting provider with "consulting services in the field of cloud computing."
Former Apple SVP Bertrand Serlet
Serlet will be a non-executive director at his new Parallels position, reports All Things D though it is not fully clear what duties that post entails.
In a statement regarding the new position, Parallels CEO Birger Steen described Serlet as “the rare combination of a software visionary and master of execution.â€
Parallels is well-known for its virtualization and automation software which allows users to run the Windows operating system on Macs as well as Linux computers. The company has expanded into cloud computing as well as enterprise since it was founded in 1999.
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Serlet started @ NeXT at the same time with that other visionary: [URL=http://forums.appleinsider.com/image/id/172351/width/575/height/657][IMG]http://forums.appleinsider.com/image/id/172351/width/575/height/657[/IMG][/URL] edit: why does Huddler copy images into the AI domain? We used to be able to trace back to the origin of images where one could see which sites are being read by AI members. But I digress...
Hilarity and taunting of the opposition ensues...
Serlet started @ NeXT at the same time with that other visionary:
Love the signature!
Surface will definitely not suffice in the grapple with Apple.
A senior VP from Apple is relegated to board member of an also-ran virtualization company? Also-ran is not the most disappointing part of the previous sentence.
Quite a coup. The first of one of VMware and Parallels to make a version of their product that runs with no kexts, and can therefore be sold on the App Store, will make a fortune.