VA Software Appoints Sheila Baker Senior Vice President of Marketing; Industry Veteran to Drive Strategic Marketing of the SourceForge Global Development Platform.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2004 VA Software Corporation (Nasdaq:LNUX), provider of the industry-leading global development platform SourceForge Enterprise Edition, and parent company of OSDN OSDN Open Source Development Network OSDN Open Source Developer Network , the largest technical network serving enterprise IT and development professionals, today announced the appointment of technology marketing veteran Sheila Baker as Senior Vice President, Marketing. Baker will report to Ali Jenab, president and 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. of VA Software, and will be responsible for all VA Software marketing activities worldwide. "We've had excellent growth recently with SourceForge Enterprise Edition," said VA Software CEO Ali Jenab. "We have over 85 customers, many in the Fortune 500, and are rapidly expanding SourceForge as the solution of choice for helping them streamline and manage software development more effectively in globally-distributed, mixed-sourced environments. Sheila's deep business and marketing experience, skills and talent will help us drive our SourceForge business to the next level." Baker is a highly experienced technology marketing and sales executive with proven results at leading open-source and technology companies such as MontaVista Software MontaVista Software develops systems software, development tools and Embedded Linux-based software targeting embedded systems such as automotive electronics, communications equipment, and television set-top boxes and other connected devices and infrastructure. , The Santa Cruz Operation See SCO. Santa Cruz Operation - (SCO) A supplier of Unix systems for Intel microprocessors. They supply Xenix and Open Desktop. Founded in 1979, SCO became a public company in May, 1993 and trades on the Nasdaq National Market System under the symbol SCOC. , Apollo Computer (company) Apollo Computer - A company making workstations often used for CAD. From 1980 to 1987, Apollo were the largest manufacturer of network workstations. Apollo workstations ran Aegis, a proprietary operating system with a Posix-compliant Unix alternative frontend. and Raytheon. She recently completed three years at MontaVista Software, serving as Vice President, Marketing, where she drove company strategy, product requirements and positioning, brand awareness and demand creation initiatives. At The Santa Cruz Operation, she held several executive-level positions most recently as vice president of US channel sales. Baker's relevant technology marketing, sales and engineering management experience totals more than 20 years. She holds a BS in Computer Science and Economics from State University of New York (body) State University of New York - (SUNY) The public university system of New York State, USA, with campuses throughout the state. at Albany, and an MS in Management from 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. . "SourceForge.net's remarkable growth and the respect it has earned with the worldwide IT and developer communities make SourceForge Enterprise Edition a truly compelling solution for larger enterprises who are trying to improve distributed development This article has multiple issues: * It does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by citing reliable sources. * Very few or no other articles link to this one. efficiency and manageability," said Baker. "Plus, with the recent release of SourceForge 4.1, SourceForge Enterprise Edition has the extensibility and ease-of-use large companies need to integrate SourceForge with their existing infrastructure to ease adoption and accelerate the return on investment. I'm very excited to be joining VA Software at this pivotal point in the company's evolution, and look forward to working with the entire VA Software team and VA's customers to bring the benefits of SourceForge to their global development challenges." About VA Software VA Software (Nasdaq:LNUX) is the provider of SourceForge Enterprise Edition, the industry leading, web-based solution for streamlining and managing distributed software development. SourceForge improves communication, collaboration, and workflow coordination among multi-site teams and gives managers real-time visibility and control over their projects, regardless of location. SourceForge enables higher developer productivity and faster project completion whether teams are in-house, outsourced, onshore on·shore adj. 1. Moving or directed toward the shore: an onshore wind. 2. Located on the shore: an onshore beacon; an onshore patrol. adv. or offshore. Numerous Fortune 1000 firms and more than 850,000 Open-Source developers use SourceForge technology to power their global development efforts. VA Software is also the parent company of OSDN, the largest and most dynamic community-driven enterprise IT network on the Web. Every level of IT influencer, decision maker and buyer turn to OSDN sites to create, debate, and make or break IT news and tools. OSDN is the home of the award-winning news discussion site Slashdot.org; the world's largest open-source software development site SourceForge.net; Linux.com, and other popular sites. OSDN's traffic has reached an all-time high of 250 million page views and almost 16 million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. every month. For more information on OSDN, visit www.osdn.com. Note to editors: VA Software and SourceForge are trademarks or registered trademarks of VA Software Corporation in 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. and in other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. Further information on VA Software is available at www.vasoftware.com. |
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