Chili!Soft Names Bryan Grummon President and CEO; Former Gemstone CEO to Manage Chili!Soft's Growth and Direction.BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 1999-- Chili!Soft(tm), Inc. (http://www.chilisoft.com), the leader in platform-independent Active Server Pages (World-Wide Web, programming) Active Server Pages - (ASP) A scripting environment for Microsoft Internet Information Server in which you can combine HTML, scripts and reusable ActiveX server components to create dynamic web pages. IIS 4. (ASP), has named Bryan Grummon, a 30-year veteran of high technology business, President and Chief Executive Officer. Grummon will oversee all Chili!Soft business operations including sales, marketing, customer support, development, finance and administration. Charles Crystle, founder and former interim 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. , will retain the position of Chief Technology Officer. The move strengthens Chili!Soft's management team as the company continues on pace for record growth in the fast moving Internet software segment. Grummon's appointment is seen by Chili!Soft investors as a key factor in maintaining the company's growth and success. "With Bryan's appointment, Chili!Soft now has all of the ingredients of a powerhouse solution provider in the Internet arena," said Scot Land of Encompass Partners, a Chili!Soft investor. "Behind the glamour of portals, e-commerce and 'dot.com' companies, are companies like Chili!Soft who are providing the crucial, unseen building blocks that make the Web work for companies around the world." ChiliSoft develops software that corporations, internet service providers (ISPs), and packaged software solution vendors use to build or host applications on the Web. Corporate customers of its flagship product, Chili!Soft ASP, include Boeing, BASF BASF Bar Association of San Francisco (since 1872; San Francisco, California) BASF Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (German chemical products company) BASF Builders Association of South Florida , Bayer Corp., Caterpillar, and others. "Chili!Soft has carved out an enviable market position with powerful, platform-independent products for companies that want to establish or expand their Web presence fast. Our challenge now is to build on a solid foundation and expand the solutions we provide our customers," said Grummon. "I look forward to working with the management team during this exciting next phase in Chili!Soft's growth." Mr. Grummon brings a wealth of experience and relationships to his new position. For the last five years he was President, CEO and Director at Gemstone Systems, where he grew the company into the largest independent mid-market application server company. As President, CEO and Director at APTEC Computer Systems, he repositioned the military supplier of super minicomputers into commercial markets, achieved profitability, and concluded the sale of the company. Mr. Grummon's leadership at Digital Sound Corporation as President, CEO and Director produced rapid growth and profitability leading to a public offering in 1990 with a $180 Million market capitalization. Mr. Grummon experienced equal success in his previous posts as President of ITT Powersystems Corp., President of MicroOffice Systems, and Corporate Director at Zenith Corporation. He received a Bachelor of Science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies degree in Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology, in Chicago; coeducational; founded 1940 by a merger of Armour Institute of Technology (founded 1892) and Lewis Institute (1896). . About Chili!Soft ASP Chili!Soft ASP enables ASP to run on leading Web servers and operating systems, making it the first cross-platform Web application server based on the ASP framework. Chili!Soft ASP is supported by industry leading Web development tools, such as Microsoft Visual InterDev and FrontPage (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ), Elemental Drumbeat, NetObjects ScriptBuilder, and Sybase Powersite (Nasdaq:SYBS). Chili!Soft ASP is compatible with databases from Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ), Informix (Nasdaq:IFMX IFMX Informix Corporation ), Sybase, IBM, and Computer Associates (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CA). About Chili!Soft Founded in 1994, Chili!Soft, Inc. is a privately held, pioneer provider of enabling technologies and applications for Active Server Pages (ASP). Chili!Soft's award-winning flagship product, Chili!Soft ASP, extends the ASP framework to seven Web server platforms on Microsoft Windows NT and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). . The company currently has development partnerships with IBM (NYSE:IBM), Microsoft, Netscape (Nasdaq:NSCP NSCP National Schistosomiasis Control Program NSCP National Space Communications Program NSCP Native (Mode) Service Control Point (Tandem) ), and Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW), and has licensed Chili!Soft ASP to independent software developers such as Concur Technologies (Nasdaq:CNQR), FileNET Corp. (Nasdaq:FILE), and PC Docs/Fulcrum. Chili!Soft was founded in 1994 with headquarters in Bellevue,. For more information about the company, customers can visit the Chili!Soft Web site at http://www.chilisoft.com or call 425/957-1122. Note to Editors: (c) 1999 Chili!Soft and Chili!Soft ASP are trademarks of Chili!Soft, Inc. All other products mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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