[4] In his early career, Morin worked as a project manager at a Georgia Pacific plant in Phoenix for a Watertown, Massachusetts-based company called Ionics.

After moving to California in the late 1970s, he went on to work for many companies including Purex, Varco Oil and Tools, Hughes Aircraft and Triconex.

The Productivity implications of that were astounding compared to the approach used by the FIX and others.After he was done with the TriStation design, Morin started working on TriView, a user interface.

He shared his idea with Phil Huber, his former colleague from Triconex, and asked him to join hands in building a software company.

Morin’s choice of betting his company’s future on the success of Microsoft Windows paid off soon; Wonderware gained a significant lead over its competitors and remained virtually unchallenged for next five years.

[8] The organization noted that Morin ‘bet the company’ on Microsoft’s Windows software and started a major transition from dedicated, hardware-based process control to Windows-based ‘open’ technology.