Secant Technologies Founder Named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.Business/Technology Editors CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2001 John Pompeii Designated as 2001's "Emerging Entrepreneur" for Northeast Ohio John Pompeii, founder and chief technology officer of Secant Technologies, Inc., was named as a 2001 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the Northeast Ohio region. Pompeii was presented with the award at a banquet in Cleveland on June 14, 2001. Recognized as a winner in the "Emerging" category, Pompeii was cited for his entrepreneurial spirit and 20 years of experience in the software engineering industry. For the past ten years, he has developed and applied a number of object management technologies that were used to form the underpinning un·der·pin·ning n. 1. Material or masonry used to support a structure, such as a wall. 2. A support or foundation. Often used in the plural. 3. Informal The human legs. Often used in the plural. of Secant Technologies, which he founded in 1995. Pompeii is well known in the object community as an author, teacher and authority in the fields of 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. , object persistence, Java and CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global . He developed and taught early CORBA programming using IBM's System Object Model (SOM) and designed and built the first C++ class library for IBM's OS/2 operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . Mr. Pompeii is the principal architect of Secant's award-winning products and technologies, including the ModelMethods(TM) Object Integrator (1) In electronics, a device that combines an input with a variable, such as time, and provides an analog output; for example, a watt-hour meter. (2) See systems integrator. , ModelMethods(TM) Enterprise Server and the SmartFarm(TM) server farm technology. In January, Secant received a prestigious Crossroads 2001 A-List award for its Model-Driven Infrastructure(TM), which is the underlying technology of its ModelMethods software. Secant's technologies are in use in some very notable organizations such as i2 Technologies and Incyte Genomics. Incyte recently utilized Secant's software to build and power their new Genomic genomic pertaining to a genome. genomic clone see clone. genomic DNA the DNA sequences making up the genome of an individual. genomic library see gene bank. Knowledge Platform (GKP GKP Global Knowledge Partnership ), which will help to dramatically accelerate many aspects of life science research. About Secant Technologies Secant Technologies is the provider of the Model-Driven Infrastructure(TM) that enables organizations to successfully build, power and evolve custom software applications by extending a model-driven approach with the tools and infrastructure to transform business vision From Model To Reality(TM). Secant has won awards from Network Computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. and Java Developer's Journal, a Crossroads 2001 A-List Award and more. Innovative companies like i2 Technologies and Incyte Genomics have benefited from Secant's open, standards-based solutions. For more information, visit Secant's Web site at www.secant.com or call 1-888-473-2268. ModelMethods, Model-Driven Infrastructure, SmartFarm and From Model To Reality are trademarks of Secant Technologies, Inc. All other product, company or trade names are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective rights holders. |
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