Dave Cotten Joins rPath as Vice President of Sales; Former Red Hat Sales Exec Brings More Than 10 Years of Experience in Technology-Based Solution Sales.RALEIGH, N.C. -- rPath, provider of the first platform for creating and maintaining Linux software appliances A software environment that inclues the operating system and application. It is designed for installation in standard hardware that will be dedicated to running that single application. A "hardware appliance" is the software appliance and computer packaged as a single product. , today announced the addition of Dave Cotten as Vice President of Sales. In his new role, Dave will be responsible for all of rPath's sales activities. Prior to joining rPath, Dave was the regional vice president of sales for Red Hat. In this position he was responsible for managing all of Red Hat's enterprise accounts for the western half of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . During his tenure he helped grow the enterprise Linux business substantially. Before Red Hat, Dave served in numerous sales and leadership positions with companies such as Oracle, Strategic Technologies, and Inforte Corporation. "I am excited to be working with some of the pioneers in the Linux industry," said Dave. "I believe rPath's software appliance platform will enable the next generation of Software as a Service for on-premise deployments." "Dave has demonstrated his ability to take a new concept to the market and build a significant customer base," said Billy Marshall, 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. , rPath "His field experience with Linux in the datacenter is a great complement to rPath's talented Linux engineering and marketing team." Dave holds 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 Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University and a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Dallas The University of Dallas is a Catholic institution. It seeks to educate its students to develop the intellectual and moral virtues, to prepare themselves for life and work, and to become leaders in the community. . About rPath rPath provides rBuilder and rPath Linux, the first platform for creating and maintaining software appliances. Using rPath's technology, application developers can evolve their business from delivering an application to providing a complete solution via software appliances. For customers, software appliances bring the simplicity and value of Software as a Service (SaaS) to on-premise application deployments. The company is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina For other uses of this name, see Raleigh. Raleigh (IPA: /ˈrɑli/, ral-ee) is the capital of the State of North Carolina and the county seat of Wake County. . For more information, please visit: http://www.rpath.com |
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