Hall of Fame Induction Year
2000
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“He was a technological visionary,” said internet technology specialist Erich Steller, who worked with Iacobucci at Citrix and followed him to two other companies. “He helped revolutionize how we use Windows today.” Iacobucci started his career as a young software engineer at IBM, but then did something bold and almost unheard of in the software world in 1989: he left, taking some of IBM’s software designers with him. The software company they created, Citrix, became one of the nation’s most successful, bringing in about half a billion dollars in revenue by the time Iacobucci left in 2000. The Fort Lauderdale-based company’s software uses the Internet cloud to let people work collaboratively from different places, accessing company information just like they could if they were all in one office. It’s now used by more than 260,000 organizations and 100 million users around the world, according to the company’s website. “He accelerated the move to the cloud computing 10 years before people even knew what cloud computing was,” said Krantz. Colleagues called Iacobucci “George,” after the sci-fi cartoon character George Jetson, and Newsweek profiled him in 2005, naming him one of their “10 big thinkers for big business.” After the travel company failed in 2008, Iacubucci moved back to software, becoming CEO of VirtualWorks Group. VirtualWorks created software that helped companies deal with “data sprawl,” the problem of having so much information it’s hard to tell what’s what and what’s where. He stayed with the company until May. Edward E. Iacobucci was born in Buenos Aires and studied systems engineering at Georgia Tech Institute.
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