Virtual Computer Featured in The Boston Globe

Yesterday, Virtual Computer was featured in an article in The Boston Globe highlighting “Bright Lights in a Dark Season.” The article zeroed in on the fact that Virtual Computer has been thriving despite the difficult macroeconomic climate, citing our continuing corporate growth and success while also highlighting the compelling personal story of one of our software engineers, Al Fatykhov:

But by 2001, the dotcom crash ended his assignment. His most recent job was outsourced this year, leaving him out of work Oct. 17. He joined Virtual on Oct. 20, and in November learned he had passed the exam to become an American citizen.

“In my career,” said Fatykhov, “I’ve been in startups a couple of times, and they didn’t turn out well. But when you look at the management and the market, you understand that this is a dynamic place.”

The Boston Globe came in to our offices a few times over the last couple of weeks, including during our gift swap (that’s Al checking out his gift in the photo accompanying the article), to talk with a few of us and also for a demo of NxTop (which you can see running a few 3D graphics intensive programs in this video).

We still have many mountains to climb in 2009 to get our product to general availability and find buyers in a difficult IT spending climate, but the fact of the matter is that NxTop is a great product that will save IT teams money – a great value proposition in a recession. There is more confidence and optimism around our corridors than there is gloom and doom, and I am glad that the word is spreading.