THE PERFECT STORM

After years of growth, a number of things happened at the same time, and it felt like the perfect storm: the first internet bubble burst, computers became a commodity and the world economy held it’s breath after 9-11. We were forced to re-invent ourselves and let go...

GROWING PAINS

These first years we managed to grow to a respectable hardware and support company. Back then Starware’s operations were: assembling our own machines, supporting our clients in setting up LANs and developing custom software solutions for them. The first employees we...

OUR OWN OFFICE

In 1995, things really got too big for the attic at the house of Roland’s parents. Pallets of computer parts were delivered and hoisted up and down the stairs. So we found a small office near our homes in Reeuwijk, paused our studies and worked our asses off to get an...

THE FOUNDING

The story starts back in 1992 when we (Marc Roelofs and Roland Stilting) were still at school, following one of the first dedicated ICT studies in the Netherlands. Back then ICT was a completely different world: A PC was the tablet of today, DOS was king of the...