Butenko Vladimir Anatolyevich

Butenko Vladimir Anatolyevich

For more than 20 years, Vladimir Butenko has been a recognized leader in the development and improvement of quality standards for e-mail, instant messaging and VoIP technologies.

Biography

Education

He received a Ph.D. from Moscow State University in 1988.

Vladimir Butenko gained some fame back in the 1980s, when, together with other students and graduate students of the Physics Department of Moscow State University, he wrote Unix a similar operating system MISS (Multipurpose Interactive timeSharing System) for the Soviet COMPUTER EU 1010.

MISS was installed "on 80 percent of the entire fleet of EU 1010/1011 machines in the Soviet Union," Butenko recalled in an interview with Computerworld in 2000.

"But when these cars just stopped buying, the market for our system dried up," he added.

Career

1988-1998

In 1988, with a group of like-minded colleagues, he organized the Gamma cooperative, which supplied MISS OS with a powerful set of application software for the needs of the oil and gas and chemical industries.

In 1991, he founded the company in order to build a solution for the exchange of data on the Internet.

In 1993, he founded Stalker Software in the USA ("if the product is not made in the USA, it will not" go, "" the programmer explained the reasons for this step), later renamed CommuniGate Systems. The company first specialized in developing utilities for the Macintosh, and in 1998 released the first version of the CommuniGate Pro unified communications platform for the Rhapsody operating system (later called Mac OS X).

2005

In 2005, the Russian office of Stalker Software was opened.

2014

For 2014, the American company of Vladimir Butenko is called CommuniGate Systems, and solutions based on CommuniGate Pro are used around the world. Among the clients, according to the official website, Verizon, British Telecom, Deutsche Telecom, NASA, Mercedes-Benz, Ebay, etc.

In Russia, CommuniGate Pro is used in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the State Duma, Rostelecom, Sberbank, etc.

As President and CEO, he is responsible for developing a common corporate concept and strategy, as well as managing the company's operations.

Throughout the company's operations, Mr. Butenko continues his direct involvement in the development of the CommuniGate Pro product development strategy, as well as interaction directly with customers and partners, which allows the company to develop exponentially.

The rights to CommuniGate Pro belong to Vladimir Butenko, who is a Russian citizen. According to the Focal.Contour database, he is registered as an individual entrepreneur. The development of the product core is carried out directly by Vladimir Butenko, and customers are provided with a rich API for modifying the system on their own by^[1].

2018: Death

On August 29, 2018 To Moscow , at the age of 57, Vladimir Anatolyevich Butenko suddenly died TAdviser , the company said on August 30, 2018. CommuniGate Systems Farewell to him will take place on September 1.

Obituary

Vladimir Anatolyevich Butenko was a bright person who left a noticeable mark in the history of the development of information technologies in Russia and in the world. Over the course of more than 27 years of software development, it has brought together many millions of people, developers and businessmen, users and followers around it, CommuniGate Systems said.

In addition to software development activities, Vladimir Anatolyevich was a professional athlete and a prominent figure in the world of yacht sports. He began to engage in sailing as a child, at the Aurora yacht club. Received the title of Master of Sports of the USSR. Vladimir Butenko also acted as a philanthropist - he supported the sailing section in Strogino, provided comprehensive support to the Russian sailing team during the World Champion in class 470 in San Francisco, sponsored the Who is Who regatta.

At the same time, Vladimir Butenko was engaged in the creation of an automatic Regatta.link system for holding competitions using modern technologies. The system, which is based on high-accuracy GPS trackers and a system for transmitting racing information from a referee ship to yachts, was tested at the Open Russian regatta in 2017, and in 2018 it was already fully deployed at a number of international competitions, including world championships.

CommuniGate Systems expressed condolences to the family and friends of Vladimir Butenko.

2023: Stalkersoft lost the right to release the CommuniGate Pro server. It passed to the daughter of the late product creator

On July 11, 2023, it became known that the Staltersoft company, which sells the Russian communication server CommuniGate Pro, lost its rights to this product by a court decision. Read more here.

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