Curl Corporation Taps New Leadership to Spearhead Next Phase of Development.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 7, 2002 Newly-Appointed President, Thomas R. Stiling, to Lead Global Adoption of Next-Generation Web Content Development and Delivery Platform Curl Corporation, the leading software infrastructure company for the development and delivery of content in a Web-based environment, today announced that Thomas R. Stiling has been named president of the company. Under Stiling's charge, Curl will accelerate its pioneering work on the next generation of Web-based application See Web application. development and deployment, which relies on a unified software environment and client-side processing to maximize the performance, functionality and customer experience within Internet, intranet and extranet applications. Stiling's immediate goals are to drive the sales and marketing effort for Curl and make its technology ubiquitous in the Web community. "Curl is at the epicenter of a fundamental shift occurring in the evolution of the Internet," said P. Kevin Kilroy, a member of the board of directors for Curl Corporation. "Market research indicates that an executable Internet will supplant sup·plant tr.v. sup·plant·ed, sup·plant·ing, sup·plants 1. To usurp the place of, especially through intrigue or underhanded tactics. 2. today's Web, delivering new application functionality in ways that today's Web pages can never realize. Curl has the technology infrastructure necessary for companies, developers and end-users to realize the next generation of Web applications. Tom joins Curl Corporation at its most critical juncture since Curl began. I am confident that his years of strategic, operations, technology and leadership experience will serve the company, its employees and our investors well." Spearheading the effort to capture greater corporate mindshare, Stiling will lead the Curl team in leveraging the "Curl advantage" to include the power of client-side processing by building more powerful and better performing Web-based applications; reduced application development, deployment and maintenance costs; and optimization of existing server and bandwidth capacities. "Web applications are unnecessarily constrained con·strain tr.v. con·strained, con·strain·ing, con·strains 1. To compel by physical, moral, or circumstantial force; oblige: felt constrained to object. See Synonyms at force. 2. by today's server-centric design paradigm Design paradigms are models, archetypes, or quintessential examples of designed solutions to problems. The term "Design paradigm" is used within the design professions, including architecture, industrial design and engineering design, to indicate an archetypal solution. , which sacrifices functionality for ubiquity Ubiquity See also Omnipresence. Burma-Shave their signs seen as “verses of the wayside throughout America.” [Am. Commerce and Folklore: Misc. ," said Stiling, Curl president. "A large part of my job is to evangelize e·van·gel·ize v. e·van·gel·ized, e·van·gel·iz·ing, e·van·gel·iz·es v.tr. 1. To preach the gospel to. 2. To convert to Christianity. v.intr. To preach the gospel. the power of Curl to CIOs, IT directors, marketing executives and Web developers -- including client-server developers -- who want to Web-enable their existing applications. Curl's engineers -- in my view among the best in the industry -- have delivered a technology that sets the bar for the next wave of Web applications. We will push into our next stage as a company, with a goal to build a strong customer base and position Curl aggressively in the commercial software sector worldwide." Stiling brings more than 20 years of strategic management and technology management experience to Curl. A United States Marine Corps United States Marine Corps (USMC) Separate military service within the U.S. Department of the Navy (see U.S. Navy), charged with providing marine troops for seizure and defense of advanced bases and with conducting operations on land and in the air in connection with veteran and consummate team builder, Stiling has been instrumental in leading three companies to successful public offerings, including 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. Software, Seer Technologies and Broadway and Seymour. Stiling is a graduate of Northeastern University Northeastern University, at Boston, Mass.; coeducational; founded 1898 as a program within the Boston YMCA, inc. 1916, university status 1922, fully independent of the YMCA 1948. where 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 in Business and Industrial Relations industrial relations pl.n. Relations between the management of an industrial enterprise and its employees. industrial relations Noun, pl the relations between management and workers . About Curl Corporation Curl Corporation is a software infrastructure company whose content development and delivery platform enables true client/server functionality in a Web-based environment. The platform consists of a unified software environment that incorporates and extends the capabilities of existing Web technologies in a single integrated content language, and that uses the power of client-side processing to bring desktop application functionality to Internet, intranet and extranet applications. The result is better performing and more powerful Web-based applications; reduced development, deployment and maintenance costs; and more effective use of existing server and bandwidth capacity. Curl Corporation was a recipient of the Crossroads 2002 A-List Award and has been named by Computerworld as one of the top 100 companies to watch in 2002. For more information, visit www.curl.com. Curl is a trademark of Curl Corporation. All other trademarks appearing in this press release are the property of their respective owners. |
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