Alain Lefebvre

Alain Lefebvre (born 1960) is a French entrepreneur and author. He has made significant contributions to client server computing. He co-founded SQLI in 1990 and led the company for over ten years. Alain Lefebvre has published more than 29 books, five of which are about computer and internet topics. Since 1995, Lefebvre and his wife Murielle Lefebvre have been promoting Montessori education in France. He is the founder of the first professional social network in France, 6nergies.net. He has held network events, conferences, and was interviewed in 2004 about Web 2.0. He also published a book about social networks in 2005.

Career Alain began his career in IT in 1977. In 1980, he was hired by Thomson-CSF to work as a programmer on civil aircraft simulators. He became a Db2 consultant in 1988.

In 1990, he participated in the creation of SQL Engineering, which later became SQLI. In 1993, he wrote columns in the weekly Le Monde Informatique IT and 01 Informatique and published his first book: The Client-Server Architecture.

SQLI In 1990, Jean Rouveyrolles and Alain Lefebvre founded the company SQLI. The company was introduced to Euronext Paris in July 2000, during which SQLI had 700 employees.

In 1997, Alain Lefebvre began writing essays and a column named "The Terrible Truth" on his personal website. In April 2001, he left the SQLI group and became a motorsport driver, writing a book called "Racing" in 2004.

Website In the summer of 2004, Alain Lefebvre launched the first French social network for professionals: 6nergies.net. Alain Lefebvre published a book on this in 2005 titled Social Networks, M21 Editions. Although the website had more than 20,000 users by 2007, 6nergies.net did not manage to raise sufficient funds to survive. 6nergies.com closed in August 2009.

Books Architecture client-serveur, Armand Colin, 1993, (récompensé par le "Prix du meilleur livre informatique") Intranet client-serveur universel, Eyrolles, 1996, Web client-serveur, Eyrolles, 1998, Le Troisième Tournant, Dunod, 2001. Perdu dans le temps, Manuscrit puis M21 éditions, 2004. Les Réseaux sociaux, M21 éditions, 2005. Racing, BOD, 2008. SimRacing, Pearson, 2009. Soheil Ayari, un pilote moderne, écrit avec Sassan Ayari, 2009. Cow-boys contre chemins de fer ou que savez-vous vraiment de l'histoire de l'informatique, écrit avec Laurent Poulain, 2010. Publier sur iPad & Kindle – Réalisez votre ebook: démarche et outils, étape par étape, 2011. Cette révolte qui ne viendra pas, 2011. Prévision Maîtrise Contrôle, Tome 1, 2011. Simracing, seconde édition, 2012. Hacking, 2012. La malédiction des champions du monde de F1, 2012. Looking for TransContinum: Vincent Tria is lost in time, 2012. Un auteur à succès, 2013. Le miroir brisé des réseaux sociaux, 2013. Freedom Machine : la moto rend jeune !, 2014, Prévision Maîtrise Contrôle, tome 2, Prévision Maîtrise Contrôle, tome 3, 2016, La guerre des Froes, 2015, Dr Miracle, saison 1970, 2016, Dr Miracle, saison 1971, 2017, L'empereur, 2017, Affaire classée: La première affaire du FBI à l'européenne, 2017, Arrêtez de développer des applications, 2018, Technologies : perception, illusion, déception, 2018, Le facteur chance: qu'arriverait-il si un inconnu se mettait à tout gagner ?, 2020, FUSAC : quand la finance se mêle d'informatique, 2020, Vers l'informatique raisonnée: Le concept que vous attendiez !, 2020, Du client-serveur au Web: 10 ans d'évolutions critiques des techniques informatiques, 2020, Le fait technique: L’évolution technique est mal connue et mal comprise, 2021, La terrible vérité – Petites chroniques sur la grande dualité, 2022, La crise de l’IT des années 2020 et comment s’en sortir !, 2022, Dr Miracle, saison 1972, 2023,