2008-02-27
Jotun Selects Birdstep's RDM Embedded v8.0 for their Automatic Dispensing System at Point-Of-Sales
SEATTLE/OSLO - February 27, 2008 - Birdstep Technology (OSE: BIRD), which offers state of the art embedded databases, today announced that Jotun has selected RDM Embedded v8.0 for their automatic color dispensing systems at point of sales.
Jotun has been a satisfied customer of Birdstep Technology's databases since 1992, when it first deployed db_Vista for their Point-of-Sales paint color dispensing system on DOS. Jotun's unique offering is currently in use on more than 5000 worldwide installations, with a concentration in Scandinavia, the Middle East and South East Asia/Asia Pacific.
"Ever since first deploying, our confidence in RDM has only grown stronger, thanks to its outstanding ease of use and high performance. The net result is we never needed to consider changing the database tools, and are now pleased to upgrade our system to the latest version." says Terje Vardenaer Arnesen, Development Engineer for Jotun.
"Longevity is the key to a successful business. By offering world class embedded database products and services over the last 25 years, Birdstep is in a unique position to serve customers like Jotun that rely on such stability", commented Duncan Bates, Vice President of Product Management at Birdstep. "Delivering new products that meet ever-demanding customer requirements enables our customers to successfully increase their market share. Jotun has been in the color dispensing business since 1976, and we're pleased to have enabled Jotun's success the last 14 years."
About The Raima Database Manager Family
Raima Inc. released the first version of the Raima embedded database in 1984. Since then the family has grown into two 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 Inc.
Raima Inc. 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.
About Jotun
Jotun is one of the world's leading manufacturers of paints, coatings and powder coatings with 71 companies and 39 production facilities on all continents. In 2007 the Jotun Group had a turnover of NOK 8,872 million, and 5,900 employees. Jotun has four divisions, with its head office in Sandefjord, Norway. All decorative business and a growing share of the marine and protective business are dependent on automatic dispensing systems at point of sales. At the end of 2007, Jotun had more than 5000 dispensing systems in operation. http://www.jotun.com
For further press information please contact Paul Johnson at Raima Inc.:
Tel: (206) 748-5300
Email: marketing@raima.com
Website: www.raima.com