John Buckman founded and ran Lyris http://www.lyris.com in 1994, ran it for 11 years, and wrote their ListManager and MailShield products, both of which use tclhttpd as the web server platform and engine. At Lyris, he hired David Gravereaux to write a "socket" command replacement optimized for Windows' async tcpip calls, which David then made open source, which gives amazing speed gains. John sold Lyris in April of 2005.
John currently uses Tcl extensively behind the scenes at Magnatune http://magnatune.com an online record label he runs, and BookMooch http://bookmooch.com is an all-Tcl-all-AOLServer used book exchange community he now runs. You can email John : https://magnatune.com/info/email_us?to=john
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