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St. Paul Pioneer Press: Small Firm Delivers for Google

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 3, 2006

“A tiny St. Paul software business has become a savior of sorts
to the Google online-search giant, which needed its help adapting
the popular Picasa photo-organizing program for use on non-Windows
computers.

“A modified version of Google’s Picasa, released Friday, runs on
the Linux operating system instead of Windows XP. To pull off this
software-engineering feat, Google tapped St. Paul-based CodeWeavers
and its longstanding expertise in making Windows programs work on
Linux personal computers…”

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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