About NetMesh

NetMesh is a small Silicon Valley-based software company started by Johannes Ernst.

NetMesh has developed InfoGrid, a modern, Java-based, dual-licensed web applications platform that enables developers to rapidly create REST-ful, user-centric web applications on top of a choice of relational database or grid storage technology. Through its Probe Framework, InfoGrid is particularly suited to composite "mash-up" applications that need to access complex public or private remote data sources in real-time.

For members of the open-source community, InfoGrid is available without support under an OSS-certified Open Source license.

NetMesh offers commercial support and commercial software licensing options to enterprises. NetMesh also develops custom applications for customers using InfoGrid and related technologies (such as OpenID). Contact.

Johannes Ernst, Founder/CEO

Johannes has been working on putting the user in control of their own technology experience for all of his life.

At NetMesh, other than his pioneering work on InfoGrid, he:

• invented the idea of URL-based, user-centric digital identity with the LID project. At last count, more than a billion URL-based digital identities, called OpenIDs, have been deployed by major providers such as AOL, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, MySpace and Yahoo!.
• co-initiated the OSIS project, which has brought together many technology heavyweights (like CA, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Siemens and Verisign) to make their identity technologies interoperable.
• contributed to the emergence of the Health 2.0 movement, which seeks to put the patient at the center of their electronic health universe, regardless for how many entities with how many incompatible data stores are involved in their care.

Prior to NetMesh, Johannes was CEO of Aviatis Corp., a venture-backed technology startup that developed engineering collaboration software.

Prior, he also worked for BMW Research and Engineering (Munich, Germany), the MSR consortium of the German automotive industry, FZI (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Integrated Systems (Santa Clara, Silicon Valley), since acquired by Wind River.

Other activities included leadership positions in the Object Management Group (OMG) and the Electronic Industries Association (EIA) and other vendor consortia.

Johannes has a master's and a doctorate in electrical engineering from the universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Karlsruhe, Germany, respectively.