Data Access discussed at Xcalia

This is public now:

• http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080318005082&newsLang=fr

• http://www.datadirect.com/xcalia/index.ssp

• http://www.xcalia.com/news/PR_2008-03-18_Xcalia-DataDirect-Acquisition.jsp

DataDirect now has a very comprehensive offer for Data Access. At the Progress Software level this is even better (with the combination of the ESB, the RDBMS, the EII, the ODBMS and other components). I’m now the CTO of the Data Services strategy at DataDirect. I’d like to thank all our Xcalia employees, investors, partners and customers for that very nice story. I’ve been very proud during all these 8 years to contribute to JDO, JPA, SDO and DAS and opening the door to extended persistence and universal mapping. That is just a beginning.