Alexandre Julliard
Alexandre Julliard (born 1970) is a computer programmer<ref>Template:In langAlexandre Julliard (Wine) "Wine n'amène aucune perte de performance par rapport à Windows" 24/04/2006 "..Alexandre Julliard, 35 ans, est le mainteneur du projet Wine depuis 1994. /1999 CodeWeavers, Chief Technology Officer / 1996 Lightning Instrumentation, chef de projets / 1994 Elca Informatique, ingénieur de développement"</ref><ref>New York Times: Little-Known Project Developing Alternative Software to Windows - By JOHN MARKOFF Published: January 18, 1999 - "...in the person of a 28-year-old Swiss programmer, Alexandre Julliard."</ref> who is best known as the project leader for Wine, a compatibility layer to run Microsoft Windows programs on Unix-like operating systems.
Julliard studied computer science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.<ref>CodeWeavers - Alexandre Julliard "..graduated in 1994 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland with an MS in Computer Science."</ref><ref>Open Source and Community Licensing Summit Participants (Partial Listing) March 10, 1999 - "Alexandre Julliard is the leader of the Wine project. In his other life he is managing the embedded software development at Lightning Instrumentation in Lausanne, Switzerland. He holds a diploma in computer science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology"</ref> He spent most of the 1990s working on embedded systems.<ref>OLinux interview, April 2000 - A Fantastic Interview with Wine's Man Alexandre Julliard - By Fernando Ribeiro Corrêa and Luis Strano Template:Webarchive - "..I've been working in software development for the last 10 years, mostly in embedded software (routers, payphones, etc.)"</ref> He now works full-time on Wine for CodeWeavers.
Julliard enjoys astronomy and lives in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- OSNews interview, October 2001 - Interview with WINE's Alexandre Julliard - posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 29th Oct 2001 17:25 UTC
- Wine HQ - WWN Issue #348:Wine Newsletter interview regarding Wine 1.0 release (6/18/2008)
- Wine HQ - WWN Issue #336:Wine Newsletter Interview with Mr. Alexandre Julliard (12/24/2007)
- YouTube video of: WINE Conference 2007 Keynote speech by Alexandre Julliard(October 7, 2007)