Christopher Ogg (President) initially became involved in IT as a marketing consultant in the UK. He has been online since 1984 and did the launch marketing for over half a dozen of the early online database services (ThornEMI’s World Reporter and World Exporter, McCarthy Online, the Financial Times’ Profile and others), as well as consultancy for companies such as ICL, Data General, Kurzweil and Financial Times Electronic Publishing. He has co-authored three books on the web technologies with Peter Judge of Ziff Davis, is co-editor of the influential ‘zine eComWatch (with Roger Whitehead) and contributes regularly to the Intranet Management Report. He is the webmaster of several technical information websites. 

At Intranets96 in London he created a “zero cost” intranet in real time during the conference – including IP telephony – and converted and mounted text and multimedia content provided by the other speakers. The purpose was to demonstrate that, properly applied, the web technologies could provide simple, low cost, fast commercial networking solutions.

Christopher is a system administrator for the ISP Cyber River and has administrative experience of NT, Windows 3.x, 95 and 98, Linux, DOS, OS/2 and Apple. He has been coding HTML since the advent of the graphical web and also has a working knowledge of Perl, JavaScript and Java. He has experience of administering IIS, O’Reilly’s Website Pro, Apache and related web processes, especially secure FTP and database connectivity.

He has been building, repairing and troubleshooting x86 computers and networks since 1985. He is particularly interested in the hardware backfill that remains to be done as the computer industry remains obsessed with the single performance parameter of chip speed. This interest led to the development of Wireless Island’s strategy of developing “pickup truck solutions”. He also has a particular interest in encryption-based security solutions and has worked closely with AEC Security of the Czech Republic.