Gordon Eubanks
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Gordon Eubanks (b. November 7, 1946) is a microcomputer industry pioneer who worked with Gary Kildall in the early days of Digital Research. Eubanks attended Oklahoma State University. Dr. Kildall was his graduate thesis advisor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Eubank's 1976 master's thesis was a BASIC language compiler called BASIC-E designed for Kildall's new CP/M operating system. Over the next year and a half Eubanks wrote the popular CBASIC compiler for IMSAI, while he was still a naval officer. Friends of Eubanks say he called it "CBASIC" because he wrote it while serving on a submarine (at sea). Other people say the name CBASIC referred to commercial basic, because it incorporated BCD math which eliminated MBasic's rounding errors that were sometimes troublesome for accounting. In 1981 he sold his company, Compiler Systems, to Digital Research and went to work for them. In 1984 Eubanks joined Symantec and from 1984–1986 he helped develop Q & A Write, an integrated database and wordprocessor with natural language query. He went on to become president and CEO of Symantec, guiding it into the software utility and anti-virus businesses until he left in 1999 to become president and CEO of Oblix, a silicon valley startup which creates software for web security. Oblix was acquired by Oracle in March, 2005. Eubanks is a director of Concur Technologies and joined the board of directors of Oakley Networks in February, 2006.
[edit] External links
- Transcript of Gordon Eubanks oral history.
- Face to Face: Gordon Eubanks (ZDNet video)
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