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Jacques Febvre joined the Open Software Foundation (OSF) in 1989 as Director of the Grenoble Research Institute, building up a team of highly skilled engineers and establishing preliminary contacts with public and private research laboratories as well as with major European universities. During this period, the Advanced Development program, focussed on the development of the microkernel-based distributed operating system (OSF/1 MK), and on the study of the Architecture Neutral Distribution Format (ANDF). The Research Institute also participated in Esprit projects, among them OMI/GLUE and DEPLOY.
In 1995, he was promoted to Vice President of the Grenoble Research Institute. In this role, he expanded the RI activities in Europe, to encompass new technologies, in particular the World Wide Web and Java. In this domain, collaboration with the European research organizations, especially with the W3 Consortium represented in Europe by INRIA, was reinforced. The links with the Esprit FrameWork IV Program of the EEC were strengthened, and two Web-related projects, WIRE and W3UserNet, were launched in 1996. A number of Java related projects were started.
In 1998, with support from the Hewlett-Packard Company, he contributed to the re-orientation of the Research Institute's program, focussing it on Java for Embedded Systems, with a series of projects that contributed to HP's ChaiVM Technology, and Network Printing projects, an investigation of Internet appliances which facilitate document distribution and printing across the Internet. Finally, he played a pivotal role in the transfer of the RI to Groupe Silicomp.
Before joining OSF, Jacques Febvre worked for Group Bull as Unix Development Manager. In 1984, he participated in the creation of X/Open as Group Bull's Technical Manager, contributing to the publication of the first X/Open Portability Guide (XPG). In 1988, on leave from Group Bull, he joined the OSF interim team, starting the OSF technical activity which eventually produced the OSF/1 Operating System.
Jacques Febvre holds a Master degree in Applied Mathematics from Grenoble University.
Jacques Febvre can be reached at:
Silicomp Research Institutephone: +33 (0) 476 63 48 64
fax: +33 (0) 476 51 05 32
or by e-mail at [email protected]
Last update: 2 March 2000