The official announcement was made today about me joining the Curl team. Here is the press release:
Marc Orchant Joins Curl Inc. to Help Build Curl RIA Developer Community
Well-known Blogger Comes on Board as Vice President of Developer Relations
Cambridge, Mass. - August 14, 2007 - Curl®, Inc., provider of the enterprise-grade Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform, has announced the appointment of Marc Orchant as the Vice President of Developer Relations.
In his role on the Curl team, Marc will be building and maintaining the Curl Developer Center, aimed at being a go-to resource for those in the developer community. The Developer Center will address the needs of software developer's as they begin to work with the Curl platform. This will be an open forum for developer's to discuss the Curl platform, download code samples, read the Curl blog, as well as find various Curl resources. \
Marc has been in the technology industry for 25 years, most recently as an independent consultant working with a number of software companies. Marc is also well-known as a regular blogger at ZDNet. He is also a co-host of On The Run With Tablet PCs, a weekly podcast and was named a Microsoft MVP (Windows - Tablet PC) in January, 2006 and again in 2007. He is the author of "The Unofficial Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007" (Wiley, 2007).
"I've been building and testing hardware and software for more than twenty-five years and I've been involved in just about every aspect of the software business, so I'm tremendously excited about this new opportunity," said Orchant. "The rich Internet applications market is one of the fastest growing in the industry and it is a privilege to be working with the company that has the longest history in the space. I expect working with Curl and with its growing community of developers to be a rewarding experience."
In addition to Marc's role on the Developer Center, he will be providing insight into the world of RIA via the Curl blog. Here, Marc will be discussing RIA hot topics, Curl updates, as well as trends that the company is seeing in the market. Finally, Marc will also participate in and support analyst and media relations efforts.
"We are thrilled to have Marc join our executive team," said Jnan Dash, Chief Strategy Officer, Curl, Inc. "We see him as a valuable asset in establishing the Curl RIA Developer community as well as evangelizing the value of Curl technology in the US."As I said in the release, I'm very excited to have the opportunity to work with a great group of people to help make Curl a well-known name in RIA development and a natural choice for developers looking for an enterprise-grade language and deployment platform to web-enable their business applications. The RIA space is growing quickly and attracting a lot of attention in the media and from industry analysts. It was a frequent topic of conversation at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle that Richard Treadway and I attended last week and I expect more of the same at upcoming events we'll be participating in and attending.
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