Andrew "Flip" Filipowski Named to Bluestone Software Board of Directors.SAN FRANCISCO--JAVAONE '99--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 15, 1999-- Bluestone bluestone, common name for the blue, crystalline heptahydrate of cupric sulfate called chalcanthite, a minor ore of copper. It also refers to a fine-grained, light to dark colored blue-gray sandstone. (R) Software Inc., a performance leader in Enterprise Interaction Management, today announced that Andrew "Flip" Filipowski, former founder, president, chairman, and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of PLATINUM technology Platinum Technology Inc. was founded by Andrew Filipowski in 1987 to market and support deployment of Database Management software products and the applications enabled by database management technology and render related services. , inc. has joined Bluestone's board of directors. As Bluestone prepares for its next phase of growth, Filipowski's appointment staffs the company's board with an industry visionary and leader who has managed companies from inception to overwhelming industry dominance. "Flip took PLATINUM technology from its start-up status in 1987 to its position as the eighth largest software company in the world," said P. Kevin Kilroy, president of Bluestone Software. "Given Bluestone's incredible growth rate over the past 12 months, Flip's experience and expertise in understanding the public equity markets and leading world-class companies will be invaluable as we continue to expand and grow. Flip is perhaps one of the few visionaries with operational, as well as venture capital experience." Added Filipowski, "Application servers are the heart of the online world, and Bluestone's application server technology is vastly superior to that of its competitors. The company has already established a dominant position in the application server and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. arena, and Bluestone is well-positioned to take advantage of the incredible, on-going demand for Internet and iCommerce applications." Filipowski currently serves as the president, chairman, and CEO of "divine interVentures" which develops businesses for the Internet Age. His investment experience includes StarMedia, YesMail, iGive, Perceptual Robotics, MotherNature.com, Andromedia, Liquid Audio, Whitman-Hart, House of Blues House of Blues (HOB) is a chain of music halls and restaurants founded in 1992 by Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett and his friend and investor Dan Aykroyd. It is a home for live music and southern-inspired cuisine, whose clubs celebrate African-American culture, specifically and Platinum Entertainment, Inc. As one of the founders of PLATINUM technology, Filipowski was instrumental in building a business that grew to a billion dollars in revenue and became the eighth largest software company in the world. Platinum's customers worldwide rely on the company to help them perform business-critical functions, including database and systems management, application lifecycle management The administration and control of an application from inception to its demise. It embraces requirements management, system design, software development and configuration management and implies an integrated set of tools for developing and controlling the project. , data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse and decision support, and year 2000 reengineering. At PLATINUM technology, Filipowski was responsible for day-to-day operations, including product and business development, marketing, sales, customer support, and training. Filipowski was also responsible for setting long-term strategic direction and overseeing the PLATINUM technology executive team. In May of 1999, Computer Associates International, Inc. acquired PLATINUM for $3.5 billion in the largest transaction in the history of the software industry. About Bluestone Software Bluestone Software Inc. is a performance leader in Enterprise Interaction Management software. Companies deploying Internet Commerce applications like ARI ARI Acute respiratory infection, see there , Conexant (formerly Rockwell Semiconductor), Dreyfus Corp., Eli Lilly Eli Lilly can refer to:
(2) (Microwave Communications Inc. WorldCom, Reliance National, and Time Inc. depend on Bluestone Sapphire/Web(R) and Bluestone XML Suite(tm) Application Server frameworks to integrate business applications into Web-enabled environments, manage information interactions, and exchange data with employees, partners, and customers. For more information about Bluestone, please call 609-727-4600 or visit http://www.bluestone.com. Bluestone and Sapphire/Web are registered trademarks, and Bluestone XML Suite is a trademark, of Bluestone Software, Inc. All other names, brands or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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