Bertrand Serlet | |
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| Born | (1960-12-19)December 19, 1960 (age 64) |
| Alma mater | École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay[1] |
| Occupation(s) | Software engineer, businessman |
| Employer | Fungible Inc.[2] |
Bertrand Serlet (French:[bɛʁtʁɑ̃sɛʁlɛ]; born 1960) is a Frenchsoftware engineer and businessman; he worked first at theInstitut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA) before leaving France for the United States in 1985. He was the Senior Vice President of Software Engineering atApple Inc.
Serlet graduated fromÉcole normale supérieure Paris-Saclay. He holds a PhD inComputer Science from theUniversité Paris-Sud 11.[3]
Serlet was the former Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Apple Inc., where he worked from 1997 to 2011.[3] He succeededAvie Tevanian in the position in July 2003.[4] In this position he was primarily responsible for the release ofMac OS X (including10.4 Tiger,10.5 Leopard and10.6 Snow Leopard). He led development of the Workspace manager inNeXTSTEP andOPENSTEP.[5]
Before joining Apple he worked atXerox PARC andNeXT.[3]
In 2001, Serlet and Tevanian initiated a secret project at the request ofSteve Jobs, to sell MacOS onVaio laptops.[6] Apple demonstrated the product toSony executives at a golf party inHawaii, with the most expensive Vaio they could acquire.[7]Sony refused, arguingVaio's sales had just started to grow after years of difficulties.[8]
Serlet spoke atWWDC 2006 on the perceived similarities between Mac OS X Tiger andWindows Vista, including comparing Apple'sAqua interface and Microsoft'sAero interface. He poked fun at the apparent visual similarities and referenced a 2004 WWDC banner that read, "Redmond, start your photocopiers" — a reference to Microsoft headquarters, which is located inRedmond, Washington.[9] He also spoke atWWDC 2009 and gave an in-depth demonstration ofSnow Leopard, which included further references to Microsoft's Windows operating system — claiming thatWindows 7 is just another version of their widely criticizedVista release, citing the ongoing use of theWindows Registry,DLLs, theUser Account Control (UAC) subsystem and existence of an interactive disk defragmenter.
On March 23, 2011, Apple announced that Serlet was leaving the company "to focus less on products and more on science."[10]
Business Insider reported Serlet had founded a startup incloud computing called Upthere along with other former Apple employees.[11] In November, 2012, Upthere raised an undisclosed amount of venture capital funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Elevation Partners, and Google Ventures.[12] Upthere was acquired by Western Digital on August 28, 2017.[13]
In July 2012 he joined the board of directors ofParallels, Inc.[14]
In 2015, he co-founded data center technology companyFungible with formerJuniper Networks' CEOPradeep Sindhu.[2]
In an interview with INRIA, he shared details about Grokable, a small stealth startup he is working on. According to Serlet, Grokable is "a purely scientific and highly innovative project that involves imitating animal intelligence."[1]
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