Bill Yundt, Vice President of WebTV, a Microsoft Subsidiary, Elected to ISOCOR Board of Directors.SANTA MONICA Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 28, 1998--ISOCOR (Nasdaq:ICOR ICOR International Consortium for Organizational Resilience (Lombard, IL) ICOR Incremental Capital-Output Ratio ICOR First Corinthians ICOR Infantry Combat Regiment (US Army; Korean war era) ), a leading Internet messaging and directory software developer, announced today that Bill Yundt, vice president of Networking at WebTV Networks Inc.- a subsidiary of Microsoft - has been elected to the ISOCOR board of directors. Mr. Yundt's election raises the number of Board members to seven. Prior to working with WebTV, Mr. Yundt was vice president of BBN (BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, www.bbn.com) A consulting firm that participated in the development of some of the most extensive networks in the world, including ARPANET, which evolved into the Internet. It was founded in 1948 as a consulting service in acoustics by Dr. Planet, the Internet service arm of BBN Inc., where he also served on the executive committee and had responsibilities for BBN Planet's regional acquisitions program and for aspects of strategic development. The founder of BARRNET BARRNET Bay Area Regional Research Network (California) , the Bay Area Regional Network which pioneered the Internet in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern , he was director of Networking and Communication Systems at Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. where he developed and managed SUNet, the campus-wide broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). and digital network. Mr. Yundt is a recognized expert and lecturer in the fields of the Internet, computer networking
Computer networking is the engineering discipline concerned with communication between computer systems or devices. , and network management and has served on the boards of directors of numerous high technology companies. "I am pleased to have Bill Yundt on our board of directors," stated Andrew De Mari, chairman of the board of ISOCOR. Added Paul Gigg, ISOCOR president and chief executive officer, "Bill's strategic insight into the evolution of the Internet coupled with his experience in the service provider market will be a great asset to ISOCOR as we continue to capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. the opportunities in these markets." ISOCOR (www.isocor.com) develops, markets and supports high-performance software products for messaging and directory infrastructures. These infrastructures support business applications that connect dissimilar systems and enable the exchange of mission-critical business information over corporate intranets, the Internet, and public and private networks. ISOCOR's mission is to be the leading provider of backbone software, supplying high-quality, high-performance software capable of handling an organization's messaging and directory requirements, from the simplest to the most complex. This mission is supported by ISOCOR's award-winning products and the company's ongoing commitment to research and development, coupled with rigorous quality assurance and support. With headquarters in California, U.S.A., ISOCOR is a global organization with major development centers in Santa Monica, Dublin and Berlin. ISOCOR has sales/support offices in key international business centers including Washington, D.C.; London; Paris; Berlin; and Bern. ISOCOR is a registered trademark of ISOCOR. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders. -0- For more information on ISOCOR via facsimile at no cost, simply call 1-800-PRO-INFO and dial client code ICOR.
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