History
In 1998 the graduate of MIPT Vladimir Panfilovich founded a small organization which specialized on development of the software. This organization's name can be explained by formulating the specific phonetic criteria, also, from all obtained versions, which correspond to these criteria, it was not selected the name of plant "Agava" (it does not associate with neither Mexican cacti, nor with drinks from these cacti and especially, with ancient Greek mythology). A project Joblist became the first flower of Agava in 1999. The web site dedicated to the search for work and to the selection of employee, which is on the leading positions in the market. In 2000 a hosting direction had been chosen, which later was developed very actively and as of 2007, Agava was amongst the top 5 largest hosting companies of Russia. Afterward Agava became to grow a great amount of projects and conquered confidence of the increasing number of users. Now Agava occupied by successful activity of e-commerce in different directions. The company supports and develops more than 10 independent Web projects. And it has several offices in Moscow and branches in Dubna, Bishkek and Minsk.
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