What is VP7?

VP7 is a small hardware/software company founded in April 2000 with the aim of solving customer specific problems. We can also provide support in launching new products, constructions or inventions mostly in the hardware/software area. We are very happy for programming tasks (C, C++, Perl, Fortran, Html, CGI, Java etc.) and we are more than happy to give support in setting up Linux based servers/workstations. One thing you will not be able to is to make us develop software for MS Windows in Delphi, Visual C++ or even worse, Visual Basic. A kid from primary school will be able to do that for you. We believe in the spirit of Open Source Software, which is why any software copyrighted by us is released under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License. On the contrary, any software product written to our customers are released (if released at all) under the terms and conditions of our customers. Feel free to contact us!

Who are VP7?

VP7 consists of two guys, who in their sparetime did some programming, after having followed the course Advanced Programming at the Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus.

Born in Romania as a Hungarian in 1975, he lived the first fifteen years of his life under the suppression of the romanian dictatorship. In 1989 he fled the country with his parents and moved to Denmark, where he finished highschool and got a masters in physics and mathematics from the University of Aarhus. Alex has been fascinated by electronics and amateur radio since he was twelve and has been building his own computers since 1991. His programming career has begun in 1992, when he was writing database programs in Pascal on a 286 based PC running MS-DOS. In the late 1993 he got himself a 386 motherboard with a DX40 CPU andoard with a DX40 CPU and 8MB of RAM and has been devoted to Linux since then. (At that time the Linux kernel consisted of about 40.000 lines of code.) Among other things, Alex supports ecology, recycling, the spirit of the Free Software Foundation, whilst he truly hates hypocrisy, politics and hippies. [Homepage of Alexandru Csete]

Niels Bassler was born 1975 in Germany. Most of his life he lived only 200 meters from the Danish border, and belonged to the Danish minority in Germany due to his Danish mother. In 1996 he started studying physics and chemistry at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. After completing the chemistry part, he became involved in astrophysics at the Astronomy Group Aarhus University, where he currently is working on his master thesis about CCD performance degradation due to radiation in space - in connection with the Rømer satellite. Niels has worked with computers since he got his first Commodore VC-20 when he was 8 years old. Due to the lack of games for that paritcular computer, he soon learned programming in BASIC with some aid from his father. When he was 10, he got his own Commodore C-128 and also did some experiments with 6502 assembler. It wasn't until 1997 that he seriously learned "real" programming launguages, such as Turbo Pascal and C. Niels' hobbies include playing music on his synthesizers at home, and waste his youth at the Institute of Physics and Astronomy doing experiments. [Homepage of Niels Bassler]