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My Take
Ray Ozzie is one of those figures I deeply admire from the sidelines. The Chicago-born engineer behind Lotus Notes, he later succeeded Bill Gates as Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, which is about as heavy a torch as anyone in software can be handed. What impresses me most is timing: he was sketching out collaborative groupware decades before online co-working felt natural to anyone. So much of how we work together today traces back to seeds he planted. He never sought the spotlight the way founders do, and that's exactly why I think of him as a quiet giant who rewired how the world gets things done.
Overview
Raymond "Ray" Ozzie (born November 20, 1955) is an American software industry entrepreneur who held the positions of Chief Technical Officer and Chief Software Architect at Microsoft between 2005 and 2010. Before Microsoft, he was best known for his role in creating Lotus Notes.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Ray Ozzie
- Name (Japanese)
- レイ・オジー
- Reading
- れい・おじー
- Born
- November 20, 1955 (age 70)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Goat
- Origin
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- programmer / computer scientist / engineer / businessperson
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Maine South High School
- University
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Awards & achievements
- 2000 W. Wallace McDowell Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttp://ozzie.net/about
- Xhttps://x.com/rozzie
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.