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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak will speak at xTuple's “ultimate user conference” in Norfolk, Va. in October.
Wozniak, who helped design of Apple's first line of products — the Apple I and II — and influenced the popular Macintosh, will give the opening keynote when the six-day xTupleCon14 opens on Oct. 13 at the downtown Norfolk Marriott Waterside Hotel and Conference Center.
In 1976, Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer, Inc., with Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. The following year, he introduced his Apple II personal computer, featuring a central processing unit, a keyboard, color graphics and a floppy disk drive.
Wozniak is now chief scientist for the in-memory hardware company Fusion-io. He is also the author of a New York Times best-selling autobiography, iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon, in September 2006 by Norton Publishing.
XTuple, a provider open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, has a lifelong affiliation with Apple products, including desktops, MacBooks, iPhones and iPads. Users of the xTuple are three times more likely to be running Apple products than the average business user.
