Nick Barrett is an applications engineer for Industrial Tomography Systems.
She had been vice president at JDe.sourcing, an applications services unit of J. D. Edwards & Company.
"This is a rare opportunity to be the chief executive of an applications company with real scale," Mr. Phillips said.
His father worked until recently in Milpitas, Calif., for Infineon Technologies, the German microchip manufacturer, as an applications specialist for client technical support.
"It will also create an applications company with the incentive and the ability" to begin licensing software "to competing operating systems".
This was in effect the remedy demanded by Judge Jackson, who ruled that Microsoft must be split into an operating-system company and an applications company.
Nonetheless, it was still a jolt to see the decision -- dividing Microsoft into an operating systems company and an applications company -- written in black and white.
For example, Frances Ligon of Riverhead, an applications engineer at Brookhaven National Laboratory, sings in the Friendship Baptist choir and in the International Choir at the lab.
"They are hoping that by creating an applications company as aggressive as the OS company, the new company will do things like make bets on Palm and Linux.
During my job search, I spotted an online advertisement for the position of an applications engineer with Manchester-based industrial process tomography firm, Industrial Tomography Systems.
Datawind has sponsored an applications contest for students, which generated a point-of-sale system for street vendors, who make $100 a month or less.
