What is Geir Ivarsøy?
[[File:GeirIvarsoey.jpg|thumb|Geir Ivarsøy]] '''Geir Ivarsøy''' (June 27, 1957 – March 9, 2006) was the main [[programmer]] at [[Opera Software]]. He and [[Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner]] were part of a [[research]] group at the [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[state]] [[telephone]] [[company]] (now known as [[Telenor]]). They made [[web browser|browsing]] [[software]] called ''MultiTorg Opera''. Telenor stopped them from working on the program, but in 1995, Ivarsøy and Stephenson von Tetzchner got the rights to the software. They created a company of their own, and continued working on it. Now known as [[Opera (Internet suite)|Opera]], the [[Internet]] [[web browser|browser]] has become very popular. Opera Software has grown to more than 380 [[employee]]s since it first moved to its offices in [[Oslo]]. In January 2004, Geir Ivarsøy said he wanted to resign as a [[board member]] in Opera Software, though he kept working in the company after that. In June 2005 he was elected as a member of the [[wikt:nominate|nomination]] [[wikt:committee|committee]] of the company. Geir died in March 2006 of [[cancer]]. == Other websites == * [http://my.opera.com/jax/blog/show.dml/183784 Death in the Family]—an obituary {{OperaBrowser}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ivarsoy, Geir}} [[Category:Computer scientists]] [[Category:1957 births]] [[Category:2006 deaths]] [[Category:Opera ASA]] [[Category:Norwegian people]]