This is the home page of Octopus Enterprises, one of the most enduring organizations in modern high tech.
We were one of the first registered domains in the world , as Octopus.com. (We later sold it as we needed cash to fund volunteer work, more than we needed the doman.)
If you knew where to look, you’d find our influence on many groundbreaking technologies. We like to keep such things pretty quiet on purpose… then again it isn’t that hard to find evidence from Pete’s early role in open source data leadership , explanations drawn from work on early hard disk firmware , and more…