About Us

1965 -- Tom Johnson and Bob Benedict born on opposite sides of the country.

1983 -- Tom and Bob enroll at UC Davis as Computer Science majors.

1986 -- Bob and Tom create run away fork/exec loop that brings down computer science lab.

1987 -- Tom graduates in 4 years and starts work at Hewlett Packard.

1988 -- Bob takes a little longer. He joins SPC working on Harvard Graphics under Mario Chaves.

1991 -- Bob joins Arbor Software to work on the first data warehouse. Tom joins the following year.

1992 -- Tom completes his M.S., Engineering Management, at Santa Clara University.

1992 -- Bob publishes Using Harvard Graphics for Windows with 100,000 copies sold in 5 languages.

1993 -- Mario Chaves and his brother Luis Carlos Chaves start Avantica Technologies in Costa Rica.

1994 -- Bob joins Intuit to work on Quicken for US, European markets and hand held devices.

1998 -- Tom joins Ariba as Director of Engineering. Ariba becomes a major Internet success story.

2000 -- Internet boom busts. Bob and Tom consult and work with various startups.

2004 -- Bob joins Macromedia, later acquired by Adobe, as Engineering Director on Breeze.

2005 -- Tom continues to consult doing periodic projects with Avantica Technologies and other companies.

2006 -- Bob joins NetBooks as VP of Development and outsources development to Avantica Technologies.

2007 -- Bob and Tom start Open Mountain working with Avantica Technologies as their development partner.

2008 -- Open Mountain closes record year with several clients launching new products during the year.

2009 -- Open Mountain grows revenues and client base despite troubling economic year.