User:Carrabino

Anthony Carrabino is a Sr. Product Manager for SQL Server at Microsoft. Anthony has been developing and marketing commercial software products for developers since 1994. Before joining Microsoft, Anthony founded Vista Software where he was President/CEO for 8 years. During that time he led his team to create VistaDB™ as the world’s first fully managed SQL database engine for Microsoft .NET and established APOLLO™ as one of the world's most popular Xbase data engines for managing CA-Clipper and FoxPro data files. During this period, Anthony partnered with friends to create Firefly for Flash™ data access components for RIA, which were sold to Macromedia in 2002 and later became part of Adobe’s Flex framework. Before this, Anthony worked with the team that created Light Lib Graphics, which was licensed to Computer Associates in 1995 and became the default CUA graphics framework for CA-Clipper 5.3.

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