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Line 20: ==History== [[File:PlatformComputing.jpg\|thumb\|Platform Headquarters in Canada.]] Platform Computing was founded by Songnian Zhou, Jingwen Wang, and Bing Wu in 1992.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.ogf.org/News/documents/ogf_winter_2007.pdf\|publisher=OGF\|title=GridConnections\|access-date=2007-12-29}}</ref> Its first product, LSF, was based on the ''Utopia'' research project at the [[University of Toronto]].<ref>{{cite ~~citeseerx~~CiteSeerX \|title=Utopia: A Load Sharing Facility for Large, Heterogeneous Distributed Computer Systems\|citeseerx = 10.1.1.121.1434}}</ref> The LSF software was developed partially with funding from [[CANARIE]] (Canadian Advanced Network and Research for Industry and Education).<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.canarie.ca/press/publications/tadeng.pdf \|publisher=CANARIE \|title=Shaping the future: success stories from the CARARIE files \|access-date=2011-04-05 \|url-status=unfit \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040720151637/http://www.canarie.ca/press/publications/tadeng.pdf \|archive-date=July 20, 2004 }}</ref> Platform's revenue was approximately $300,000 in 1993, and reached $12<!-- Canadian? --> million in 1997. Revenue grew by 34% (YoY) to US$46.2 million in 2001, US$50 million in 2003.<ref>{{cite web\|archive-date=2005-09-27\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050927230807/http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/107/107204.html\|url=http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/107/107204.html\|publisher=Yahoo Business\|title=Platform Computing Inc. Company Profile\|access-date=2008-10-02}}</ref>

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