• New York
   8/19/2010
START-UP IEVENING

Bob Wyman, CTO and co-founderof PubSub.com, has been developing innovative, industry leading products for almost 25 years. In the early 80's at DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), Bob was the first product manager for the industry's first customizable and integrated office automation suite. ALL-IN-1 became the market leading OA product of the 80's, earning Digital as much as $2 billion per year in leveraged revenue. As part of the effort to bring office and groupware technologies to a wider market, Bob also pioneered a number of new technologies and approaches to the "internationalization" of software products and drove an effort to develop the first client-server implementation of the Notes product then used internally at DEC. This "NewNotes" inspired the later creation of both DEC's VAXNotes and Lotus Notes. Moving to France, to help establish a DEC engineering presence in Europe, Bob became product manager of Digital's CASEE (Computer Assisted Systems Engineering Environments) group. This group implemented what may have been the first wide-area-network hypertext system (Memex Prototype 1) and tested it at large European sites including ITT and CERN in the late 80's. The group also implemented extensions to the VMS operating system terminal driver architecture, assisted in the development of X Windows, developed the SUNSHINE software development environment, as well as the DECwindows Time and Task Manager. During this time, Bob represented DEC on the European Economic Commission's PCTE Interface Management Board and was a member of the European Computer Manufacturer's Association (ECMA) Technical Committee 33, developing standards for the Portable Common Tools Environments (PCTE). On returning to the US, Bob architected the Digital Distributed Software Licensing Architecture (DDSLA) and obtained four patents which are some of the earliest in the field of DRM (Digital Rights Management.)