^ 'Company News Siebe to Buy Wonderware for $375 Million'.'Siebe and BTR unveil plans for pounds 9.4bn merger'. In 2003, InTech, the magazine of the International Society of Automation, listed Wonderware founder Dennis Morin as one of the 50 most influential industry innovators, noting that he “bet the company' on Microsoft's Windows software and started a major transition from dedicated, hardware-based process control to Windows-based 'open' technology. Huber was a Penn State graduate who once worked at the legendary Bell labs before coming to California. He told his idea to a young technology wizard, Phil Huber, who was still employed by Triconex. He drove a Taxi in Boston before coming to California, hitching a ride with some friends in the 1970s.
Up until then, the college dropout had either been fired or never been promoted from every job he managed to find. In one of the great rags-to-riches entrepreneurial stories of the 1980s, Morin was 40 years old when he left Triconex. He was terminated from Triconex in February, 1986. His idea was that operators monitoring factory operations would be more productive if they used a machine that was fun and easy to use.
Morin's founding vision was a Windows-based Human Machine Interface (HMI) that was inspired by an early 1980s video game that allowed players to digitally construct a pinball game. Both were former employees of another local startup located in Irvine, California. Wonderware was co-founded by Dennis Morin and Phil Huber.
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