Caere Corporation Announces Wayne Rosing as Vice President of Engineering and CTO.LOS GATOS Los Gatos (lôs gä`tōs, lŏs, găt`əs), city (1990 pop. 27,357), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1887. It is an affluent residential community and health resort. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 30, 1996--Caere Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CAER CAER Centre d'Arts Escèniques de Reus (French) CAER Community Awareness and Emergency Response program CAER Chemical Awareness and Emergency Response Program ) today announced Wayne Rosing Wayne Rosing has been involved as a key player in several landmark projects in the computing industry since the late 1970s. Gaining experience as an engineering manager at DEC and Data General in the 1970s, he became a director of engineering at Apple Computer in the early 1980s. as vice president of engineering and chief technical officer. Rosing is well known in the technology industry for his development leadership and technological vision at Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. and Apple. Prior to joining Caere, Rosing, 50, was vice president of FirstPerson, the Sun Microsystems subsidiary where the Java programming language was developed. Previously, he was president of Sun Laboratories and earlier was responsible for development and marketing of desktop products, including the SPARCstation family of computers, graphics products, window systems, and application toolkits. Previously, he managed the company's advanced development efforts, including development of the SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill RISC processor RISC processor [Reduced Instruction Set Computer], computer arithmetic-logic unit that uses a minimal instruction set, emphasizing the instructions used most often and optimizing them for the fastest possible execution. . Prior to Sun Microsystems, he was director of engineering for the Apple II group at Apple Computer. Earlier, he supervised the Lisa division at Apple, first as director of engineering for Lisa development and later as general manager of advanced development. "Caere is gaining a valuable individual," said Robert G. Teresi 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 Caere. "His extensive knowledge of development and experience in the industry will certainly benefit Caere in many ways, and we're excited that he is now part of our team." Prior to joining Apple, he held engineering and marketing positions at Digital Equipment Corporation and Data General Corporation. Until accepting the position at Caere, Rosing was a member of Caere's board of directors. Bob Frankenberg, the former chairman and CEO of Novell, Inc., has since been elected to fill his position on the Caere board. "I am excited and look forward to working in this new role at Caere," said Wayne Rosing. "It will be a great opportunity for me to do what I enjoy the most -- leading engineering teams in the development of innovative products. Stepping down from the board will allow me to focus on Caere's research and development." The Company Caere Corporation, with U.S. headquarters in Los Gatos and European headquarters, Caere GmbH, in Munich, Germany, is the leader in OCR OCR in full optical character recognition Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry. technology and a leading developer of desktop form processing and document management products. Caere's products include the OmniPage and WordScan lines of OCR software that convert printed and faxed documents into electronic text; the PageKeeper line of Windows based document management software that effortlessly retrieves a wide range of information from virtually any source; OmniForm, which converts paper forms to electronic format, and OmniForm Internet Publisher, which converts paper forms to web-ready electronic documents; the M/Series high-speed, high-volume OCR hardware and software for commercial applications; and a broad array of OCR and bar code readers that accelerate transaction processing. -0- Note to Editors: Caere, OmniPage, PageKeeper, and WordScan are registered trademarks, and OmniForm and M/Series are trademarks of Caere Corporation, in the United States and/or other countries. CONTACT: Caere Corporation Patrick Crisp, 408/395-7000 ext. 2049 patrickc@caere.com |
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