- Benoit Schillings
Benoit Schillings is , a
Belgium software engineer .Life
Benoit Schillings is currently the chief technology officer at
Trolltech [cite web | url=http://www.trolltech.com/company/about/management | title=Management Team | work=Trolltech | accessdate=2006-09-10 ] , is famous for being one of the lead developers of theBeOS operating system and is a noted amateur astronomer.Schillings' association with
Be Inc. began in 1990 when, as a developer of software for theApple Macintosh , he visited theApple Expo inParis and metJean-Louis Gassée . Gassée, who had just leftApple Computer to found Be, asked Schillings to become the second engineer at Be where he would work on the operating system for a new computer called theBeBox .cite web | url=http://www.birdhouse.org/beos/bible/bos/int_schillings.html | title=Benoît Schillings, Software Engineer | author=Henry Bortman | work=The BeOS Bible | accessdate=2006-09-10] Schillings accepted the offer and, starting in March 1991, developed a file system (now known as the Old Be File System or OFS) and an associated user-space database application (called Zookeeper) that indexed the metadata in the file system [cite web | url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/29/windows_on_a_database_sliced/ | title=Windows on a database – sliced and diced by BeOS vets | date=March 29, 2002 | publisher=The Register | accessdate=2006-09-10] . The file system was fast and efficient, but was later replaced byDominic Giampaolo 'sBe File System .Schillings also developed the graphics system for BeOS (known as the App Server), as well as programming
framework s such as the Interface Kit and Application Kit that are used bysoftware developer s to write software for the operating system.Before joining Trolltech in October 2005, Schillings worked as a "Distinguished Engineer" and CTO at
OpenWave where, with Mike Reed, he led a team that developed version 7 of the Openwave Phone Suitemobile phone applications. [cite web | url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/02/27/openwave_phone_suite_challenges_s60/ | title=OpenWave phone suite challenges S60, Symbian | author=Andrew Orlowski | date=February 27, 2003 | publisher=The Register | accessdate=2006-09-10 ]References
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3dmiX External links
* [http://www.astrosurf.com/benoit/ Benoit Schillings's page] on telescope images.
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