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Named one of the top seven innovators of the year by Information Week Magazine!

Founder / President Planet Computer

After many years as a successful Systems Administrator and IT Manager, I started the next phase as Founder / Owner of a LAN / Wan implementation company Planet Computer takes off as a Hosted Application Company.

My company was recognized as being the first Application Service Provider in the country by many industry publications.

Since the sale of PCI, I have worked with other companies to push their technology to previously unrealized levels.

11/11/98 PRESS RELEASE:
Planet Computer nationally unveiled their newest business solution, PlanetUplink on Oct. 30th. PlanetUplink IBN (Internet Based Network) allows businesses to gain access to and share virtually any application or database simultaneously (real time) on almost any computer from their remote and multiple offices, globally, via the Internet.  This week, Planet Computer announced the expansion of PlanetUplink to support Linux (server and client), in addition to the currently supported Macintosh, OS/2, UNIX (Solaris/Sparc, Solaris/x86, SGI, IBM, SCO, HP/UX, DEC, SunOS), Windows (Win95, NT, Windows CE, Win3.x), DOS and Java.

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• Planet Computer Teams with IBM to Pilot New Internet Appliance Device   Planet Computer (Application Service Provider) announced an agreement with IBM to begin a trial roll-out of the company's new Internet appliance with selected clients. The device will become part of a convenient end-to-end Internet access solution requiring little to no PC skills on the part of the end-user.
• Planet Computer Teams with IBM to Pilot New Internet Appliance Device  More ...
• Innovators:
  Outsourcer Scores By Starting Small
  A Web-hosting application business grew from solving customer problems
  By Bruce Caldwell

• Application Outsourcing: Web Host Appeal
  A few companies--mostly the small and the new--follow as vendors rush to offer Web-based application outsourcing
  By Bruce Caldwell

• Planet Computer Beats Oracle's "Business Online" Service to the Punch with PlanetUplink
  November 4, 1998 (INB) -- Planet Computer, a Denver-based computer specialist company, announces PlanetUplink, the first (IBN) Internet Based Network hosting service of its kind.

• Linux Included in PlanetUplink Expansion
  November 13, 1998 (INB) -- Planet Computer nationally unveiled their newest business solution, PlanetUplink, on October 30.

• ITAA Headlines IBM / PlanetUplink            IBM Teams With Leading Telcos and Service Providers to Roll-Out New Internet Appliance
  IBM announced agreements with several leading communication companies and application service providers (ASPs) to begin a trial roll-out of the company's new Internet appliance.

• PlanetUplink and NCD to roll out new offerings 11-05-1998

• ASPNEWS Nov. 1998  ASP offers package database rental
  Nov 12th 1998: A Denver, Colorado-based ASP is claiming a global first for its business application rental service announced this month (Nov 4th). Planet Computer's PlanetUplink service offers two internet-accessed rental products. Of the two, Internet Application Hosting is the landmark service, offering online rental of a range of mass market database applications including Oracle, Access, SQLServer, FileMaker Pro, Goldmine and ACT!. The second service, Internet Office Hosting, is a complete package that bundles Internet access, email, office productivity software and database applications. There is an initial
  set up fee ranging from $1500 to $2500 according to the number of users, and then a monthly fee of $50 plus $45 per seat. The IT solution provider, which also markets NCD’s Windows terminals, first tested the service last year and began offering it to its existing customer base in April.
• February 15, 2000       Unanet Technologies and Planet Computer Announce Partnership. Unanet - Products to manage your e-business
• Interesting pdf Market Strategies discussion that PCI featured in
• Web based application outsourcing - The next internet wave  See Page 17