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Peter Coffee Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com
Peter Coffee is director of Platform Intelligence at salesforce.com. He was formerly the Technology Editor at eWEEK, a national multimedia center of expertise in enterprise infrastructure technology and practice. He has 23 years' experience in advancing and evaluating information technologies and practices as a developer, manager, consultant, educator, and internationally published author and industry analyst.
Based near Los Angeles, Coffee has written product reviews, technical analyses and opinion columns concerning disruptive forces in IT tools and practices; he has appeared on CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox, and PBS newscasts addressing Internet security, the Microsoft antitrust case, wireless telecom policies, and other eBusiness issues. He chaired the four-day Web Security Summit conference in Boston during the summer of 2000, and has been a keynote speaker or moderator at technical conferences throughout the U.S. and in England.
His two books to date are the Ziff Davis Press tutorial "How to Program Java" in 1996 and "Peter Coffee Teaches PCs," published in 1998 by Que. His specific areas of coverage have lately included development tools and business intelligence products.
Before becoming a full-time writer and analyst in 1989, Coffee held technical and management positions at Exxon and The Aerospace Corporation dealing with chemical facility project control, Arctic offshore development, strategic defense analysis, end-user computing planning and support, and artificial intelligence applications research. He has since been a prominent industry analyst throughout the life cycles of technologies including x86 and RISC microprocessors; Windows, OS/2, and Mac OS; object technologies, including Smalltalk, C++, and Java; and security technologies including strong encryption.
Coffee holds an engineering degree from MIT and an MBA from Pepperdine University, and has taught in the department of computer science at UCLA and at Pepperdine's Graziadio School of Business and Management and the Chapman College School of Business. His other activities include choral and instrumental music, Boy Scout backpack expeditions and merit badge counseling, youth soccer refereeing, and community food bank coordination.
