Gary Long Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Arlington, Virginia

No more consulting! But I still do board work and high-tech investing.I'm currently on the board of pgEdge (www.pgedge.com), an open source DBMS company. pgEdge is fully distributed PostgreSQL, optimized for the network edge and deployable across multiple cloud regions or data centers.

Northern Virginia

Gary Long is an independent technology investor -- an occasional "angel" -- and consultant, doing business as Software Aspects, Inc. Interests include:1. High-Tech Investing2. Consulting re Software Architecture, product strategy, etc.

Early investor and board member at EnterpriseDB. Served as head of product development on a temporary basis for six months in 2007. EnterpriseDB is an Open Source Software company whose DBMS products are based on PostgreSQL. I was a board member from 2004 to 2007, and again from 2011 to 2014 when EDB was acquired by Peak Equity.

At Gartner Consulting I used personal skills and Gartner’s research base to solve specific problems for clients on a confidential basis. Engagements included IT assessments, advanced technology adoption, strategic planning, outsourcing strategies, IS organizational design, “due diligence” and oversight. Within the broad practice, I specialized in strategic planning, software architecture and application development matters.As a member of Gartner’s application integration and middleware research community, I regularly spoke at conferences and seminars.Gartner was and is a great company -- working there was a real treat. I continued to work with Gartner Consulting for several more years on an "emeritus" basis.

Led the design and development of a major software product from product concept through successful adoption. MAGNA X is a Rapid Application Development tool that generates three-tier network TP applications. It was used by IS organizations to create operational systems with LAN or web Clients, UNIX and/or mainframe servers. Customers included Blue Cross / Blue Shield of Illinois, CSC, Cigna, the State of West Virginia (taxation), Samsung (Korea), McDonalds (Japan) and the Austrian government.Personally responsible for the design of the repository, 4GL, code generators and development system architecture. Led the design in areas such as the application architecture, user interface and diagramming tools. Applications were generated with Java, Visual Basic or PowerBuilder clients communicating with C++ or COBOL services via advanced middleware such as Transaction Managers and RPC Brokers.Although the product was installed and successful at some 40-50 sites, Magna was never able to build an adequate marketing and sales organization, especially in the face of the "Y2K" crisis. The company is no longer in business.

Founded Fairfax Software to pursue opportunities in the emerging commercial UNIX market in 1990. An early joint development agreement with Magna Software led to the product concept for MAGNA X. Worked with Magna’s president to develop the concept and obtain over $2 million in partner funding from Groupe Bull (France); started serious design work in late 1990. In 1993 Fairfax Software merged its operations with Magna

Founded L&L Software to pursue a vertical market: complex cost accounting software for government contractors. L&L provided software products for this market on Digital VAX and Prime minicomputers, and supplemented the standard products with training, modifications and other professional services.L&L's revenues were about $800,000 (1983 $) the first year, then grew at 60% per year for the next two years to over $2,000,000 in revenues for 1986. The company never had an unprofitable year. No outside investors or venture capitalists were involved. L&L Software was acquired by Computer Associates in May 1987

Founder (with Greg Lupfer) of Lupfer & Long, Inc. The company was primarily a professional services firm with a secondary involvement in horizontal software packages. Managed Lupfer & Long's Washington office. Customers included General Motors, Control Data Corp., CSC, the FHLBB, the Singer Corporation, CSX, the FAA and others. Projects were many and diverse; examples are nationwide information retrieval systems, corporate financial consolidation and reporting, federal accounting systems, various MIS applications and text retrieval software. Personally designed and led the development of an early end-user oriented "4th-Generation Language" for CDC's commercial time-sharing division. This became CDC's first really successful non-scientific application, and the highest-billing application on the network.

Entered the Navy via a special program for computer programmers that Grace Hopper established. Assigned to USNA's Academic Computing Center as a systems programmer. Maintained and extended the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System (DTSS) and Honeywell GCOS operating systems on a Honeywell mainframe.

At General Tire's Basic Research Center, developed programs to analyze experimental results for both my own experiments and for others in the Polymer Physics department. Modeled heat-flow, polymer chain growth, stress/strain, composite materials, etc. Built most of my own experimental equipment. Joined the center in 1996 as a Research Assistant. Worked full-time while attending college full-time.I also met my wife, Janice Fisher, here. She was smart, and the cutest Polymer Chemist ever.