Lantronix, Inc.
The company that evolved into Synergy Software began in 1983 on the wild frontier of the computer industry, and I, fortunately, was there to watch. At our company, I was not the gifted visionary. A teacher by training, it fell to me to try to translate exploding technology into words that the rest of us could understand. Although California’s Silicon Valley was dubbed the “cradle” of technology, the frontier was really anywhere that someone saw desktop computing as a potential productivity tool and tried to harness it to their purposes. Our business actually started as peripherals, computers, and supplies, slightly ahead of the whirlwind in computer software. We were quickly drawn into the vortex and changed our name to Synergy Software. That choice of names always reflected our gratitude for the internal synergy of our talents, but also our thanks for the interest and input from our users.