Lemonade.Net's passion is to help Small to Medium sized organizations, web developers, and individuals create self maintainable web sites/portals at very reasonable costs.  We host exclusively on Microsoft .NET technologies.

The name Lemonade.Net was created as a joke back in 1999.  Rick Lemon, founder of Lemonade.Net, was a Technical Instructor at Boston University's Corporate Education Center at the time.  The Executive Director joked about creating a technical resource for students with Rick Lemon providing the content.  He joked about calling it Lemonade.  Rick, never leaving a joke unused, immediately registered the domain name Lemonaide.Net.  A little while later, the domain name Lemonade.Net was purchased from a domain name squatter.

Lemonade.Net has been hosting web resources for individuals and small to medium organizations since July 2000.

Today, in addition to overseeing the operations of Lemonade.Net, Rick Lemon has recently returned to the role of Technical Instructor / Consultant at Boston University's Corporate Education.  He previously functioned as Director of Information Technology at the Corporate Education Center from 2000 through the spring of 2005 where he managed the technical and satellite facility operations of the premiere corporate education center in New England.

Rick has been in the Information Technology industry for more than 25 years.  He earned a B.S. in Computer Science in 1980, and broke from the mainframe world into personal computers and local area networks in 1982.  He earned his first industry certifications from IBM in 1985, Novell in 1990, and Microsoft in 1993.  He has also held certifications on Lotus Notes and other web related technologies.  Today he maintains several Microsoft certifications including the Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and Microsoft Solution Framework Practioner certifications.

Since 1982, Rick has been providing IT consulting services to many organizations.  Beginning in 1990, Rick taught thousands of IT professionals on topics ranging from network administration to network design, and network engineering.  He also instructed on several application development technologies including Web development including Microsoft and Java technologies, Microsoft SQL Server including Data Warehousing topics, and various programming environments including Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Basic, Lotus Notes, and Novell's Netware operating systems.  He was one of a hand full of instructors around the world who taught Novell server-side development technologies for compaines including IBM.

Since 1995 Rick has been using and championing Internet technologies and the World Wide Web.