Curl(R), Inc., provider of the enterprise-grade Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform, has announced the appointment of Marc Orchant as the Vice President of Developer Relations.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (BusinessWire EON) August 14, 2007 --
Curl®,
Inc., provider of the enterprise-grade Curl
Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform, has announced the
appointment of Marc Orchant as the Vice President of Developer Relations.
In his role on the Curl team, Marc will be building and maintaining the
Curl Developer Center, aimed at
being a go-to resource for those in the developer community. The
Developer Center will address the needs of software developer’s
as they begin to work with the Curl platform. This will be an open forum
for developer’s to discuss the Curl platform,
download code samples, read the Curl
blog, as well as find various Curl resources.
Marc has been in the technology industry for 25 years, most recently as
an independent consultant working with a number of software companies.
Marc is also well-known as a regular
blogger at ZDNet. He is also a co-host of On
The Run With Tablet PCs, a weekly podcast and was named a Microsoft
MVP (Windows - Tablet PC) in January, 2006 and again in 2007. He is the
author of “The Unofficial Guide to Microsoft
Outlook 2007” (Wiley, 2007).
“I’ve been building
and testing hardware and software for more than twenty-five years and I’ve
been involved in just about every aspect of the software business, so I’m
tremendously excited about this new opportunity,”
said Orchant. “The rich Internet applications
market is one of the fastest growing in the industry and it is a
privilege to be working with the company that has the longest history in
the space. I expect working with Curl and with its growing community of
developers to be a rewarding experience.”
In addition to Marc’s role on the Developer
Center, he will be providing insight into the world of RIA via the Curl
blog. Here, Marc will be discussing RIA hot topics, Curl updates, as
well as trends that the company is seeing in the market. Finally, Marc
will also participate in and support analyst and media relations efforts.
“We are thrilled to have Marc join our
executive team,” said Jnan Dash, Chief
Strategy Officer, Curl, Inc. “We see him as a
valuable asset in establishing the Curl RIA Developer community as well
as evangelizing the value of Curl technology in the US."
For more information on the Curl platform, visit http://curl.com/
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About Curl, Inc.
Curl provides a Rich Internet Application platform for building and
deploying Web-based applications that demand complex, highly interactive
interfaces previously only possible as client-server applications. Using
Curl, developers can implement a new class of complex,
business-critical, Web-based applications that cannot easily be
developed with Ajax or other smart client technologies. Curl allows
corporations with legacy client-server applications to move to Web-based
delivery, increasing reach and reducing cost. Founded in 1998, Curl is
headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Sumisho Computer Systems. Curl has over 300 customers and
40 partners world-wide. For more information visit www.curl.com.
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