People (Shinya Hata)

Blog (hata's LABlog)

1993

• Bachelor of Engineering in Information System Engineering, Osaka University

1995

• Master of Engineering in Information System Engineering, Osaka University
• Joined Justsystem Corporation; assigned to the Technology Division
• In charge of developing the framework for Ichitaro Ver.7 (a Japanese word professor)

1997

• Resigned from Justsystem Corporation
• Joined V-Internet Operations, Inc., a subsidiary of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
• Developed first own Web application
• Resigned from V-Internet Operation, Inc.
• Established Cybozu, Inc. (co-founder) and appointed as CTO
• Developed Cybozu Office, a Web-based groupware suite

1998

• Developed a original script language embedded in HTML
• Developed Cybozu Office2
• Began development of CyDE, an object-oriented database engine

1999

• Developed Cybozu Office3 using the CyDE framework

2000

• Developed Cybozu Office4

2001

• Developed Cybozu DB Maker, a Web database (later renamed Cybozu Dezie)

2002

• Developed Cybozu AG

2003

• Developed Cybozu Office6; in charge of UI (Harmony UI)
• Launched a development project for CyDE2, a Web-based application framework, in association with others (Hirotaka Yamamoto and Akimoto) (project code name: Azalea)
• Decided to adopt PHP4 and MySQL4 for use with CyDE2

2004

• Completed CyDE2

2005

• Developed Cybozu Garoon2, a groupware product that uses the CyDE2 framework and also functions as a portal; in charge of UI
• Appointed as CEO of Cybozu Labs, Inc