- Bertrand Serlet
Bertrand Serlet is Senior Vice President of
Software Engineering atApple Inc cite web | url=http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/serlet.html | title=Apple - Press Info - Bios - Bertrand Serlet | publisher=Apple Computer | year=July 2003 | accessdate=2006-09-16] . He succeededAvie Tevanian to the position in July 2003 [cite web | url=http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/jul/08avie.html | title=Avie Tevanian Named Chief Software Technology Officer of Apple | date=8 July 2003 | publisher=Apple Computer | accessdate=2006-09-16] . In this position he has been primarily responsible for the release of the 10.4 (aka Tiger) and 10.5 (aka Leopard) versions ofMac OS X andMac OS X Server .Before Apple he worked at
Xerox PARC andNeXT .He spoke at
WWDC 2006 on the similarities between Mac OS X Tiger andWindows Vista , including the comparison of Apple's Aqua interface and Microsoft's Aero interface. The video, available onYouTube , has been popular amongst Apple fans. [http://youtube.com/watch?v=N-2C2gb6ws8]He has also developed the Workplace manager in
NEXTSTEP andOPENSTEP .Fact|date=November 2007 He also has been the key to porting Mac OS X and other software on the Mac.Fact|date=November 2007References
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