David Harris (software developer)

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David Harris (born in August 1961) is a New Zealand software developer from Dunedin, New Zealand. He developed the Pegasus Mail client and the Mercury Mail Transport System,{{cite web|title=Biography at InternetNZ|url=http://www.internetnz.net.nz/about/council/archive/2004/harrisd.html|accessdate=2006-04-06|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019061838/http://www.internetnz.net.nz/about/council/archive/2004/harrisd.html|archivedate=2008-10-19}}{{cite news |last1=Clarke |first1=Gavin |title=Lack of cash claims email pioneer |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/05/pegasus_free_email/ |accessdate=10 November 2018 |work=The Register: Business |date=5 January 2007}} and is a former staff member of the University of Otago. He wrote columns for Computerworld between 2000 and 2004.[https://www.computerworld.co.nz/author/2147446105/david-harris/articles?page=1 Stories by David Harris], Computerworld, Retrieved 15 October 2018.

David received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the PC World Awards in Auckland on

15 November 2002.[https://web.archive.org/web/20081014010744/http://www.ashemorganyoung.co.nz/nz.PDF Tech News: NZ: The Clever Country: David Harris], 25 November 2002. Retrieved 2006-04-06.