Ira Chandler is the founder of Curbstone Corporation and has been programming communications software since 1981. Ira wrote the first commercial credit card processing software for the IBM AS/400 in 1993.

Currently, more than 300 companies, universities, and government entities have selected the IBM i operating system and Curbstone Card, Ira's company's PCI-security-validated payment server, including MIT, Harvard, WW Norton Publishing, Fisher Scientific, Campbell Hausfeld, Sunbelt Rentals, AdoramaCamera.com, Penn State University, Beneteau Yachts, Hornady, and the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.

While Curbstone software is primarily written in RPGLE, Curbstone was the first to publish a commercial PHP application for the System i, the Shopping Cart Pipeline, and remains committed to the PHP language.

Ira Chandler can be contacted at 888-844-8533 or ira@curbstone.com (Curbstone.com).