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Home:Company:Press Releases :January 25, 2005 XQuery Technology Evangelist Jonathan Bruce Joins DataDirect TechnologiesJonathan Bruce to drive DataDirect's emerging XQuery technologies and broaden reach in global marketplace.Bedford, MA — January 25, 2005 - Jonathan Bruce to Drive DataDirect's Emerging XQuery Technologies and Broaden Reach in Global Marketplace Jonathan joins DataDirect from Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he served as the JDBC specification lead and architect for the Java Platform. While at Sun Microsystems, Jonathan led four Java Specification Request efforts and successfully patented technology that now forms an integral part of the latest J2SE and J2EE platforms. Jonathan's background also includes business development, sales support as well as inbound and outbound licensing consulting for the Java platform and database-dependent components of Sun's Java Enterprise System. "Jonathan is a valuable addition to the DataDirect team," said Jerry King, vice president of XML products for DataDirect. "With proven experience in guiding standardization efforts and leading product development, quality assurance and reliance testing to deliver world-class products, he is certain to drive the adoption of DataDirect's XQuery technologies and support the company's ongoing success." Jonathan will lead the company's strategic beta program and official release of DataDirect XQuery 1.0 planned for later this year, in addition to DataDirect's comprehensive offering of standards-based data connectivity components. DataDirect XQuery is an embeddable software product based on the XQuery and XQJ standards that enables Java developers at independent software vendors and in corporate IT departments to access relational and XML data sources with a single XQuery query. "DataDirect has a long history of being the first to market with the highest-performing data connectivity components, simplifying application development, and allowing market leading portability and performance in today's enterprise market," said Jonathan. "With an established leadership position in the industry and a recognized voice in XML standards development, DataDirect is ideally position for continued growth. I am excited to join the team and look forward to expanding DataDirect's presence in the XQuery market." Jonathan is co-author of the book JDBC API Tutorial and Reference, Third Edition, and frequently speaks at industry conferences, contributes numerous articles and frequently BLOGs on Java.net. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering and a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Dublin's Trinity College in Ireland. About DataDirect XQuery™DataDirect XQuery™ is the first embeddable component for XQuery that implements the XQuery for Java™ API (XQJ). It supports all major relational databases on any Java platform. DataDirect XQuery allows you to query XML, relational databases or a combination of the two, integrating the results for XML-based data exchange, XML-driven Web sites, and other applications that require or leverage the power of XML. DataDirect XQuery installs easily; it does not require its own server infrastructure and is scalable from desktop to enterprise applications. DataDirect XQuery is designed for software developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) who need to manage heterogeneous data sources in XML applications. DataDirect XQuery is scheduled for commercial release in September, 2005. For more information, visit www.datadirect.com/products/xquery. About DataDirect TechnologiesDataDirect Technologies is the software industry's only comprehensive provider of software for connecting the world's most critical business applications to data and services, running on any platform, using proven and emerging standards. Developers worldwide depend on DataDirect® products to connect their applications to an unparalleled range of data sources using standards-based interfaces such as ODBC, JDBC™ and ADO.NET, XQuery and SOAP. More than 300 leading independent software vendors and thousands of enterprises rely on DataDirect Technologies to simplify and streamline data connectivity for distributed systems and to reduce the complexity of mainframe integration. DataDirect Technologies is an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS). For more information, visit www.datadirect.com. DataDirect and DataDirect XQuery are trademarks or registered trademarks of Progress Software Corporation or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Java and all Java based marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Any other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.
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