Apple buys brains of Quebec
Since the acquisition of Apple, the majority of the employees of Poly9 left Quebec to go to settle in the offices of the computer giant located in Silicon Valley, in California.
Apple so much liked the small company of high technology of Quebec Poly 9 qu ' it bought it and at once moved the majority of its employees in California, learned the Sun.
The transaction, which has occurred recently, especially made it possible at Apple to put the hand on a Québécois expertise of point developed by Poly9 in the sector of the Web cartography.
These last years, Poly9 especially put at the world application program interfaces (API) for several important customers like Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, MSNBC and NORAD. Poly9 was based in particular on the cartographic bases of Google Earth, Google Maps, MapQuest, Platial, Urban Mapping and well of others to put at the world its applications.
Ask of Norad
Poly9 had in particular created a Web application at the request of the Command of the aerospace defense of North America (NORAD) to follow the course of the Father Christmas the day before and the Christmas Day.
Tuesday, nobody at Poly9 and Apple wanted to comment on the details of the transaction. The president and cofounder of Poly9, Denis Laprise, did not point out the Sun.
However, since the acquisition of Apple, the majority of the employees of Poly9 left Quebec to go to settle in the offices of the computer giant located in Silicon Valley, in California.
Only two employees of Poly9 did not follow the caravan for family reasons. They are lived Quebec and work now on their own account.
Officially, Poly9 always exists in Québécois ground and holds a simple postal address in the district Saint-Jean-Baptist. It is known however that the head office of the company, street Saint-Joseph, was closed a few weeks ago.
Very skilled of Apple
For a few days, the Sun has been butted besides with a true wall of silence surrounding the activities of Poly9. No former employee of the company wanted to discuss the transaction openly. “We signed agreements of confidentiality”, announced besides one of them, very politely.
At all events, the observers of the data-processing scene consulted Tuesday by the Sun were not surprised to learn the transaction. “Apple made very a skilled by acquiring nimble ninjas of the Web”, formulated the editor of the magazine Baliz-Media.com, Luc Vaillancourt.
According to this last, the employees of Poly9 were recognized by industry initially for their unbounded talents and their creativity. “These people-there are virtuosos able to work on projects of very high stunt-flying in the universe of the Web. Apple thus put the hand on Québécois brains of very great quality”, it added.
It should be known that with the passing of years, the leadership team of Poly9 had forged besides an extremely enviable reputation in the data-processing circles of Silicon Valley at the time of the presentations Where 2.0. , an annual data-processing fair very run by industry.
Influential Tim O' Reilly (founder of O' Reilly Media), which publishes works on data processing and new technologies, had noted besides the talent of the young Québécois creators of Poly9.
Apple so much liked the small company of high technology of Quebec Poly 9 qu ' it bought it and at once moved the majority of its employees in California, learned the Sun.
The transaction, which has occurred recently, especially made it possible at Apple to put the hand on a Québécois expertise of point developed by Poly9 in the sector of the Web cartography.
These last years, Poly9 especially put at the world application program interfaces (API) for several important customers like Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, MSNBC and NORAD. Poly9 was based in particular on the cartographic bases of Google Earth, Google Maps, MapQuest, Platial, Urban Mapping and well of others to put at the world its applications.
Ask of Norad
Poly9 had in particular created a Web application at the request of the Command of the aerospace defense of North America (NORAD) to follow the course of the Father Christmas the day before and the Christmas Day.
Tuesday, nobody at Poly9 and Apple wanted to comment on the details of the transaction. The president and cofounder of Poly9, Denis Laprise, did not point out the Sun.
However, since the acquisition of Apple, the majority of the employees of Poly9 left Quebec to go to settle in the offices of the computer giant located in Silicon Valley, in California.
Only two employees of Poly9 did not follow the caravan for family reasons. They are lived Quebec and work now on their own account.
Officially, Poly9 always exists in Québécois ground and holds a simple postal address in the district Saint-Jean-Baptist. It is known however that the head office of the company, street Saint-Joseph, was closed a few weeks ago.
Very skilled of Apple
For a few days, the Sun has been butted besides with a true wall of silence surrounding the activities of Poly9. No former employee of the company wanted to discuss the transaction openly. “We signed agreements of confidentiality”, announced besides one of them, very politely.
At all events, the observers of the data-processing scene consulted Tuesday by the Sun were not surprised to learn the transaction. “Apple made very a skilled by acquiring nimble ninjas of the Web”, formulated the editor of the magazine Baliz-Media.com, Luc Vaillancourt.
According to this last, the employees of Poly9 were recognized by industry initially for their unbounded talents and their creativity. “These people-there are virtuosos able to work on projects of very high stunt-flying in the universe of the Web. Apple thus put the hand on Québécois brains of very great quality”, it added.
It should be known that with the passing of years, the leadership team of Poly9 had forged besides an extremely enviable reputation in the data-processing circles of Silicon Valley at the time of the presentations Where 2.0. , an annual data-processing fair very run by industry.
Influential Tim O' Reilly (founder of O' Reilly Media), which publishes works on data processing and new technologies, had noted besides the talent of the young Québécois creators of Poly9.
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