| Press Release | 23.11.1998 |
Centura Software Corporation Hires Joseph Falcone as New Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer
Munich, November 23th, 1998
– Centura Software Corporation(NASDAQ: CNTR), a leading supplier of embedded databases and application development tools, announced today that it has hired Joseph Falcone as its new Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer. Mr. Falcone comes to Centura from Inprise Corporation (formerly Borland) where he most recently held the position of Director of Engineering for Inprise's windows product group.
"This is a great time for Joe to be joining us," said Scott Broomfield, CEO for Centura. "We have been searching a long time to find the right person to join our team. Joe brings skills that will enhance our senior management team and help us accomplish our goals."
"I am delighted to have the opportunity to work with Scott and his team at Centura," said Falcone. "Centura's technical excellence is well established in the embedded database and application development tools markets and I look forward to building an additional competitive presence in the Web, mobile and device computing markets."
Falcone comes to Centura from Inprise Corporation, where he was responsible for the Borland Delphi and C++ builder application development tools. He is a veteran of Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment Corporation and Data General and has nearly 20 years experience in the computer industry. Falcone holds a B.A. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
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Since its inception in 1984, Centura Software, formerly Gupta, has been a technological leader in the development of tools and databases for the PC platform. Today, the company provides client/server and Web development systems, and its SQLBase is a powerful, PC-based relational database system, which — due to its minimal resource requirements — is especially suited for embedded databases. Centura Software has 26 worldwide locations; 120,000 developers and 1.5 million users work with Centura products. Website: www.centurasoft.com
More information: http://www.centurasoftware.com