Amazon.com retiring CTO Rick Dalzell leaves behind large legacy

October 22nd, 2007 | Category: Stocks

When Jeff Bezos came to Seattle a little by 10 years ago to set up an online bookstore (before the word ‘internet’ was a household term), little did he know that his company, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) — would become the world’s largest online retailer.

With a retail product choice that is moment to none and an IT infrastructure that rivals any Fortune 500 company’s global operations, Amazon.com has done amazing things in the final decade. One of them includes fitting profitable more than a few years ago, way after going public in 1997.

But times change, and longtime Chief Technical Officer Rick Dalzell

is leaving the company. Dalzell is widely credited with building the systems that made Amazon the online retailing leader, as well as creating a global computer infrastructure that allows other companies to “borrow” computer instance from Amazon for computing tasks (instead of buying computer servers themselves). In a way, Amazon has been a role model for distributed computing practices just as much as changing the face of retailing.

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Original post by Brian White

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