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McObject Adds Chief Operating Officer to Ramp Up for Growth
| Source: McObject LLC
ISSAQUAH, WA--(Marketwire - December 4, 2007) - McObject®, a developer of groundbreaking
database software for embedded systems and intelligent devices, has
appointed veteran software executive Christopher J. Mureen as chief
operating officer with primary responsibility over sales and marketing.
Mureen reports directly to McObject CEO and Co-founder Steven Graves. His
tasks include building and managing McObject's sales force to leverage the
company's early successes in the embedded software market, creating
effective alliances and marketing programs, developing new sales channels,
and building and executing an international strategy to increase the
non-U.S. contribution to McObject's revenues.
"Chris has deep experience building and managing sales teams in
fast-growing operations, and in ramping up revenue. With line and executive
positions in our embedded database market segment, and proven
entrepreneurial accomplishments, he greatly rounds out McObject's skill
set," Graves said.
"McObject has an established customer base, revenues and profitability. We
are on the cusp of very fast growth. I am looking to Chris to leverage our
visibility/brand recognition, and help build the organization, to make that
growth a reality," Graves said.
Mureen brings to McObject a track record of more than 20 years in software
sales, marketing and business development in both startup and established
companies. He served as senior vice president for worldwide sales and
support at embedded software tools vendor Metrowerks (owned by Motorola
SPS, which became Freescale Semiconductor), where he led acquisition
integration and sales growth that exceeded 300% in four years. Prior to
Metroworks, he led similar growth at data management companies Pervasive
Software (which completed its initial public offering during this period)
and Simba Technologies, which was acquired by Pivotal Software.
Mureen was vice president for worldwide sales at Surgient, where he built
the worldwide sales organization and established Surgient as the leader in
Virtual Lab automation, and at Platespin, a virtualization software company
targeting data centers. He also led sales at embedded database vendors
MDBS, Inc. and Raima Corporation during periods of fast growth.
"The need for a small footprint, high performance database system is
growing rapidly, due to increasing demands on embedded and handheld devices
-- and their resulting expanded features -- along with the growth in
enterprises' data volume," Mureen said. "McObject is in a unique position,
with proven products and market acceptance, to take advantage of this
trend. I am very excited to join McObject's seasoned team and to help the
company continue its rapid growth."
McObject develops the eXtremeDB™ in-memory embedded database system, the
first database optimized for the high performance demands and minimal
resource (RAM and CPU) availability of embedded systems applications. With
a tiny code footprint (as small as 50K), eXtremeDB supports the data-hungry
features of next-generation set-top boxes, communications equipment,
industrial automation, consumer electronics, military/aerospace
applications and other intelligent embedded systems.
eXtremeDB accelerates processing by storing and working with data entirely
in main memory. It delivers critical data management features, including a
high level data definition language, concurrent access, transactions,
support for the SQL application programming interface, and flexible
indexing, to name a few.
Since eXtremeDB's launch five years ago, technology leaders including
Boeing, Tyco Thermal Controls, F5 Networks, Seagate Technology, NexTone,
Motorola and many others have licensed the database system to integrate
with their own products. Examples of commercially available eXtremeDB-based
products include portable audio players from JVC, SOMA Networks' WiMAX base
stations, and Siemens and Phillips mobile phone handsets.
McObject has continually upgraded eXtremeDB and now provides
special-purpose editions such as eXtremeDB High Availability (HA) for
fault-tolerant applications, eXtremeDB Transaction Logging, and a 64-bit
eXtremeDB that supports databases hundreds of times larger than the
original 32-bit. Leveraging its leadership in all-in-memory embedded
databases, McObject released eXtremeDB Fusion, a hybrid product that
combines on-disk and in-memory data management in a single database system.
This unparalleled flexibility enables developers to tailor data management
for speed and persistence, while taking advantage of the most
cost-effective and physical space-conserving approaches to data storage.
McObject also now offers Perst, a high performance embedded database system
for development in Java and in Microsoft's .NET Framework.
About McObject
Founded by embedded database and real-time systems experts, McObject offers
proven data management technology that makes real-time systems smarter,
more reliable and more cost-effective to develop and maintain. McObject
counts among its customers industry leaders such as DaimlerChrysler, EADS,
JVC, Tyco Thermal Controls, F5 Networks, CA, Motorola and Boeing. McObject,
based in Issaquah, WA, is committed to providing innovative technology and
first-rate services to customers and partners. The company can be reached
at +1-425-831-5964, or visit www.mcobject.com.
McObject, eXtremeDB, eXtremeDB High Availability, eXtremeDB Fusion and
eXtremeDB Transaction Logging are trademarks or registered trademarks of
McObject LLC. All other company or product names mentioned herein are
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.