Thomas Uhl
Thomas Ludwig Uhl (born December 30, 1969 in Würzburg ; † August 21, 2015 ) was a German medical computer scientist and managing director of Tom & Friends GmbH based in Stuttgart .
Life
Uhl studied medical informatics at Heidelberg University and Heilbronn University . He founded the first company in 1990 in the form of Alich Andreas, Reiss Jürgen, Sprenger Christian, Uhl Thomas GbR (Modular Systems). This further developed the porting of the Hänisch Modula 2 compiler to the Atari ST platform and took care of distribution throughout Europe.
In 1994 he founded Thinking Objects Software GmbH in Würzburg, which was later transferred to Topalis AG, based in Stuttgart. He is co-author of one of the first Linux books Linux, from the PC to the workstation . Thomas Uhl was on the board of the LIVE Linux Association for several years and was a founding and board member of the Open Source Business Alliance , formerly Lisog . As part of his work for Lisog, he was responsible for the definition of the “Open Source Cloud Reference Stacks”, an aggregation of various open source components of individual Lisog members into a solution stack .
Thomas Uhl was a board member of Topalis AG until December 2010. In addition, he was a member of the supervisory board of Grau Data AG in Schwäbisch Gmünd and Shift Consulting AG in Andechs until his death . He held a seat on the supervisory board of Topalis AG from January 2011 to mid-2011.
As a founding member of GENO Gesundheitsnetze eG , he campaigned for the intersectoral networking of the medical care system. From February 2011 to December 2011 Thomas Uhl was a member of the Advisory Board of Sones GmbH in Erfurt . Uhl was also one of the initiators of the Deutsche Wolke .
In addition, Thomas Uhl worked in the field of business development for various companies and mediated a. a. IT professionals to befriended companies. He also took a stake in technology companies with Tom & Friends GmbH, thereby continuing the Topalis AG holding business that was handed over to him in January 2011 under a different name.
Towards the end of 2013, Uhl founded Empalis Systems GmbH together with his brother Roland Uhl and a long-time friend. As Managing Director of Empalis Systems GmbH, Thomas Uhl was mainly responsible for the areas of technology consulting and strategy consulting.
The ISDN 4Linux device drivers were developed with the support of the Thinking Objects . Thinking Objects helped in porting Linux to the IBM - mainframe architecture. In 2000, the first 64-bit distribution was released under the name Think Blue Linux , which served as the basis for porting the SAP application server.
In order to create a stable open source - RDP implementation services initiated the establishment of the Uhl OpenThinClient Alliance as part of a working group of the Open Source Business Alliance. The main goal of the project is a cross-platform remoteFX implementation based on FreeRDP .
Uhl was one of the directors of the Open Cloud Initiative . The OCI promotes the creation and dissemination of open standards on the subject of cloud computing . From 2010 to 2014 he was a volunteer Wikipedia author.
Uhl died unexpectedly on August 21, 2015 at the age of 45.
Software products
As a Linux protagonist, Uhl campaigned for the spread of open source software, the use of open standards and interoperability . One focus was advising companies on business models. On his initiative, various software products became available in a dual license:
- VirtualBox (Innotek GmbH / Sun / Oracle)
- OPENARCHIVE (Grau Data AG)
- sones GraphDB (sones GmbH)
- Nuclos (Novabit GmbH)
- Conversations (VIPcom GmbH)
- Product Lifecycle Management ( OSSWORX Inc.)
- Helium V (Helium V IT-Solutions GmbH)
- Block level storage systems based on LIO (RisingTide Systems)
- SOAPGATE (QKom GmbH)
Book publications
- LINUX. Unix for everyone. The PC as a workstation . Vogel Verlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-8259-1330-4 .
- The Internet manual for Windows. Connect and Play with EUnet's, SurfSuite / SurfKit . Dpunkt Verlag, 1997, ISBN 978-3-920993-10-2 .
- LINUX From PC to workstation: basics, installation and practical use . Springer Verlag, 1994, ISBN 978-3-540-57383-8 .
- The Complete Linux Kit . Springer Verlag, 1996, ISBN 978-0-387-14224-1 .
- Linux Unleashing the Workstation in Your PC . Springer Verlag, 1994, ISBN 978-0-387-58077-7 .
- Linux Universe: Installation and Configuration . Springer Verlag, 1995, ISBN 978-0-387-94506-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas Uhl in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ ST-Computer 10/94: Modula-2 development systems
- ↑ Open Source Business Alliance starts
- ↑ Project page of the German Cloud
- ↑ Thomas Uhl, initiator of Deutsche Wolke, in an interview
- ↑ Linux distribution for IBM mainframe
- ^ OTCA project page ( Memento from January 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ For more standards in the cloud: Open Cloud Initiative founded
- ↑ Jens-Christoph Brendel: Thomas Uhl is dead , Linux-Magazin , August 26, 2015
- ↑ Thomas Cloer: The open source community mourns Thomas Uhl , Computerwoche , August 26, 2015
- ↑ LIVE and LiSoG complain about the creeping departure from open standards
- ↑ SOAPGATE article in Linux magazine
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Uhl, Thomas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Uhl, Thomas Ludwig (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medical IT specialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 21, 2015 |