Centura Software Corporation Hosts Annual Customer Conference; Industry Experts To Offer Insights on Technology Trends Impacting Future Application Development.REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 9, 1998--Centura Software 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 :CNTR CNTR Center CNTR Container CNTR Control CNTR Counter ), formerly Gupta, announces the 1998 Centura Customer Conference to be held at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Resort in Orlando, Florida The city of Orlando is a major city in central Florida and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida. According to the 2000 census, the city population was 185,951. A 2006 U.S. from November 1st through November 4th, 1998. Centura's annual customer conference is a valuable forum for Centura partners and customers who include IT directors, senior managers, ISVs, VARs, ISPs, and System Integrators to gain firsthand knowledge about Centura products and product directions. The 1998 keynote speakers will include Guy Kawasaki Guy Kawasaki (born 1954), one of the original Apple employees responsible for marketing of the Macintosh in 1984, is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist. He is noted for bringing the concept of evangelism to the high-tech business, focusing on creating passionate user-advocates for and Elizabeth Barnett. Kawasaki, author of the soon-to-be-released Rules for Revolutionaries, is also the 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 garage.com, a Silicon Valley based firm that assists high-tech start-ups in raising venture capital and operating their businesses. In addition, Kawasaki was formerly a columnist for Forbes and an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. where he was instrumental in successfully launching and establishing the Macintosh computer. Barnett is a vice president of Giga Information Group and specializes in IT architecture, application development, data management, and distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. . According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Barnett, "Companies today face two application development imperatives: improve productivity and time to market, while at the same time improving the overall quality of the systems they deliver. Component-based development (CBD (Component Based Development) Building applications with components (objects). See component software. CBD - component based development ) techniques that can incorporate custom developed, purchased, and legacy applications will best achieve these goals. IT managers must be prepared to make investments in three critical areas: technologies for development and deployment; development processes to ensure productivity and quality; and organizational changes to institute new positions and new responsibilities within existing roles." The conference will offer both technical and business sessions to showcase Centura's current product features as well as upcoming enhancements and additional offerings. This year's conference will include sessions on techniques and tools for building applications from components. In addition, sessions will look at new products from Centura that enable applications to operate on new platforms, including the Web, PDAs, information appliances and Smart Cards. Centura is also providing bonus master classes to offer attendees the opportunity to expand their skills and strategic implementation of distributed component computing. "We are very excited about this year's event. It is the perfect forum to demonstrate how our product strategy continues to provide benefits to our customers and partners," explains Scott Broomfield, CEO of Centura. "In addition to showcasing forecasts from some of the industry's leading influencers, we will have the opportunity to give conference attendees a product preview of what should prove to be an incredibly exciting year." The Technology & Solutions Fair, held in conjunction with the customer conference, will feature exhibiting partners who are using Centura products to gain a competitive advantage in their industry including Fecher Ralgan, Minolta and Metex Systems. For More Information Registration is available by calling +1-877-878-3784 or via the Internet at www.centurasoft.com. For exhibition information, call 408/763-0623. Special airline discounts are offered through United Airlines, call 800/241-6522 for more information. About Centura Software Corporation Centura Software (NASDAQ:CNTR), founded as Gupta in 1984, was the first company to create client/server technology for the PC, including the first embedded RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management System) See relational database and DBMS. RDBMS - relational database . Centura's D3 Framework (Develop, Deploy and Distributed) includes SQLBase, Centura Team Developer See Team Developer. and Centura net.db, all of which can scale from the Web down to smart devices. Current Centura products are all year 2000 compliant a. 1. (Computers) having dates fully and properly represented, and not susceptible to failure due to the year 2000 bug. . Centura has 19 offices located throughout the world in North America, Latin America, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa. More information about the company and its products is located on Centura's Web site at www.centurasoft.com. |
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