In a 2000 survey, he was listed as one of the top 10 contributors to an intended-to-be-representative sample of open-source software, having contributed 0.782% of the total code.
[7] He has worked for Hewlett-Packard,[8] Structured Software Systems,[9] Great Bridge, Red Hat, Salesforce, and Crunchy Data.
[12] The Red Hat Database project was later cancelled, but Lane continued to work there to develop PostgreSQL.
The IJG is arguably one of the important early open source groups and a major reason why the JPEG image format is a standard.
The original specification for the Portable Network Graphics (PNG), version 1.0, was written by Thomas Boutell and Lane, with contributions by many others.