<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html> <head> <meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;CHARSET=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="keywords" content="Virtual Screen, Open Source, Software" /> <meta name="description" content="Mouse and Keyboard Sharing" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="synergy.css" media="screen" /> <title>Synergy History</title> </head> <body class="main"> <p> </p><h3>Synergy History</h3><p> </p><p> The first incarnation of synergy was CosmoSynergy, created by Richard Lee and Adam Feder then at Cosmo Software, Inc., a subsidiary of SGI (nee Silicon Graphics, Inc.), at the end of 1996. They wrote it, and Chris Schoeneman contributed, to solve a problem: most of the engineers in Cosmo Software had both an Irix and a Windows box on their desks and switchboxes were expensive and annoying. CosmoSynergy was a great success but Cosmo Software declined to productize it and the company was later closed. </p><p> Synergy is a from-scratch reimplementation of CosmoSynergy. It provides most of the features of the original and adds a few improvements. </p> </body> </html>