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Optio Software Continues Expansion of Senior Management Team.


ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 1999--

Hires John Kopcke as Vice President, Development

Optio Software, the leading provider of solutions that optimize information output for manufacturing and healthcare enterprises, announced today that it has expanded its senior management team to include John L. Kopcke as vice president, development.

Kopcke will be responsible for the company's product development organization. This includes managing and overseeing all future product development for existing solutions and research/development for new product introductions. Kopcke will also serve as a key member of Optio's senior management team, providing strategic direction and leadership to ensure the company's continued growth and profitability through technology leadership. This announcement follows four months after the appointment of Sam Little as vice president, client services.

Prior to joining Optio, Kopcke was chief technology officer for Softlab, Inc., a BMW BMW
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 company. Softlab is a provider of data management technologies and system integration solutions. At Softlab, Kopcke managed all software product development and technical direction, including, Softlab Enabler, an object repository that enables organizations - from systems integrators to software tools vendors - to simplify the access, control and re-use of constantly changing information. He also managed all product development for Visual Enabler, a software configuration management (SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management.

(2) See supply chain management.
) and version control toolset for Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft Visual Studio is Microsoft's flagship software development product for computer programmers. It centers on an integrated development environment which lets programmers create standalone applications, web sites, web applications, and web services that run on any platforms  developers. Visual Enabler was named "Best Development Software" by Byte Magazine in 1997 at C'eBIT.

Prior to Softlab, he served as chief technology officer for Boston-based Pilot Software, a subsidiary of Platinum Equity Platinum Equity is an American information technology and private equity firm. It was founded by billionaire Tom Gores in 1995 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.  Holdings. The company develops and markets Web-based and client/server business intelligence solutions designed to improve decision making through flexible analysis of market, customer and business data. Kopcke was responsible for all product development.

Kopcke also served as president and founder of Kopcke and Associates, a software development company specializing in the specification and implementation of software for software companies. Specific areas of expertise included software engineering design and implementation practices, portable software development technologies, parser generators This is a list of notable parsing systems. Chart Key
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, DBMS (DataBase Management System) Software that controls the organization, storage, retrieval, security and integrity of data in a database. It accepts requests from the application and instructs the operating system to transfer the appropriate data.  technologies and operating systems. Kopcke and Associates was acquired by Pilot Software in 1996.

Prior to that, he held several development management positions, including director of software development at THORN EMI Computers Software (TECS) in Farnborough, UK; and vice president of research and development for New Hampshire-based Evaluation and Planning Systems.

A Pennsylvania native, Kopcke graduated from the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. , where he earned a BGS BGS British Geological Survey
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BGS Bachelor of General Studies (degree) 
 degree in computer science and mathematics. He and his wife reside in Atlanta.

Atlanta-based Optio Software is the leading provider of software that optimizes information output for manufacturing and healthcare enterprises. Founded in 1981, the company offers an integrated suite of products for AS/400, 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).
 and Windows NT platforms, allowing users to customize the appearance, format and delivery attributes of information. Thousands of customers use Optio's software, in addition to its consulting, education and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services . For more information about Optio, call 770-283-8500 or visit www.optiosoftware.com.
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