Editing NetKernel (section)

==History==
NetKernel was started at Hewlett-Packard Labs in 1999. It was conceived by Dr. Russ Perry, Dr. Royston Sellman and Dr. Peter Rodgers as a general purpose XML operating environment that could address the needs of the exploding interest in XML dialects for intra-industry XML messaging.<ref name="1060history">{{cite web |title=About: History |url=http://www.1060research.com/about/#history |website=1060 Research}}</ref>

Rodgers saw the web as an implementation of a general abstraction which he extrapolated as ROC, but whereas the web is limited to publishing information; he set about conceiving a solution that could perform computation using similar principles.  Working in close partnership with co-founder Tony Butterfield, they discovered a method for writing software that could be executed across a logical model, separated from the physical realm of code and objects. Recognising the potential for this approach, they spun out of HP Labs.

Rodgers and Butterfield begun their company as "1060 Research Limited" in Chipping Sodbury, a small market town on the edge of the Cotsolds region of England in 2002, and over a number of years developed the platform that became NetKernel.

In early 2018, 1060 Research announced that it was appointing a new CEO, Charles Radclyffe.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/31641/bristol-startup-netkernel-hires-deutsche-bank-innovation-lead-as-ceo|publisher=FinExtra|title=Bristol startup NetKernel hires Deutsche Bank innovation lead as CEO |date=7 February 2018 }}</ref> Radclyffe announced to the NetKernel community in February 2018 that the team were working on a new platform based on NKEE 6 which would be fully hosted, programmable and accessible via the web - NetKernel Cloud.  Radclyffe resigned after six months.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlesradclyffe/2018/08/30/three-critical-lessons-i-learned-from-my-6-months-as-a-deep-tech-ceo/#310f15da5f88|title=Three Critical Lessons I Learned from My 6 Months as a Deep Tech CEO }}</ref>