About Us
Hub.Org was founded in 1997 by Canadian web pioneer Marc Fournier. In 2008, Hub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. was formed as a merger of Hub.Org Networking Services, with her sister company Earth Tec Inc. of Panama City.
Marc G. Fournier, Founder
Marc Fournier ("scrappy") has been involved with the Internet and World Wide Web since founding Canada's first private ISP focused on individuals, Internex Online in Toronto, Ontario. Following the sale of Internex to ICAN in 1996, Marc founded Hub.Org Networking Services, a web development company based in Nova Scotia with servers and hubs also in Toronto and in Panama City, Panama. He has an extensive and impressive resumé in developing software and solutions for individuals and businesses.
Marc has beeen actively involved in several leading open-source projects (FreeBSD, InterNet News (INN), WU-FTPd, OpenSSH), and providing hosting for open-source projects including PostgreSQL and Horde.
Marc is a founding core member of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, the world's most advanced open-source object-relational database system. He also founded and continues to lead PostgreSQL, Inc. to provide commercial contract support for the PostgreSQL, delivering leading-edge SQL database capabilities to an increasing installed base of clients worldwide.
Marc has designed, developed, supported and hosted an impressively diverse list of distributed applications, and more recently has created area-code based business directory services and the Special Needs Information Service (www.snis.ca).
