2009-02-11
Randy Merilatt returns to the RDM Group
SEATTLE - February 12, 2009 - Birdstep Technology, Inc. (OSE: BIRD) which offers state-of-the-art embedded database technologies, today announced that Raima co-founder, Randy Merilatt, has returned to Birdstep Technology to help develop upcoming releases of the Raima Database Manager product family.
"We are pleased that Randy has rejoined the team. He will be focusing on strategic tasks to deepen the interoperability capabilities of the Raima database product line. His expertise and depth of knowledge in the products and the technology is extremely valuable in addressing these tasks" says Bill Houglum, VP of Engineering and Services.
In 1982 Randy Merilatt and Wayne Warren established one of the industries' first embedded database software companies, Raima. These two former Boeing Computer Services Engineers saw the need for a fast reliable database that could be integrated seamlessly into different types of application software. It was from a project headed by then Project Manager, Bob Muglia of Rolm Communications, to develop an embedded database for the then state of the art Rolm phone switch, that the Raima Database Manager Product Family was born.
About The Raima Database Manager Family
Raima released the first version of the Raima embedded database in 1984. Since then the family has grown into three successful embedded database products. RDM Embedded pioneered the embedded market space under the name dbVista. Building on the success of RDM Embedded, Raima released the product in a client/server configuration under the name Velocis, now called RDM Server. Please find free SDK downloads of the RDM Products at www.raima.com/downloads.
About Raima
Raima, a wholly owned subsidiary of Birdstep Technology ASA, is a leading provider of high-performance, real-time, always on, embedded databases for both in-memory database usage and persistent storage devices. Raima Database Managers are found in everything from low cost real-time applications to high performance, high-availability application. With over 20 000 developers enjoying the flexibility of these COTS databases, the products are currently successfully deployed in over 25 million systems.
For further press information please contact Paul Johnson at Raima:
Tel: (206) 748-5300
Email: marketing@raima.com
Website: www.raima.com