Press Releases - 2000

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 3, 2000 – PointBase, leader in wireless mobile and 100% Pure Java™ data management products, today announced that 20-YEAR industry veteran Chuck Boesenberg has joined the PointBase Board of Directors. Currently, Boesenberg is co-managing the Integrated Systems, Inc. (ISI) (NASDAQ:INTS) merger transition team at Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), the leader in embedded software that acquired ISI in February 2000 in a billion-dollar transaction. Boesenberg was president and CEO of ISI, a $160 million leading provider of embedded software.

Before joining ISI Boesenberg held President and CEO positions at a number of companies, whose sales he helped grow significantly. During his four years as CEO of Ashtech, a business-to-business GPS innovator, the company's sales tripled to more than $100 million. Boesenberg managed Ashtech's merger with Magellan, the broadest-based supplier of satellite access products, and then as President and CEO of Magellan, he managed Magellan's acquisition by Orbital Sciences Corp., one of the world's largest space technology and satellite services companies.

Boesenberg joins existing Board members Brian Grossi, General Partner, AVI Management Partners; David Crockett, General Partner, Aspen Ventures; Nigel Stokes, CEO, DataMirror; Jim Wooder, Vice President, Helix Investments (Canada), Richard Finkelstein, Chief Technical Officer, JK&B Capital; and Bruce Scott, PointBase President and CEO.

"I am delighted to participate in the development and growth of PointBase, a company which I believe is providing pivotal technology for the massive surge in mobile wireless devices that are expected in the next few years," said Chuck Boesenberg. "With large amounts of data moving out to these devices and the need to synchronize that data with enterprise systems on a global basis, PointBase will supply the leading technology to allow companies to manage their data across time zones, continents, and cultures."

"We're excited to welcome Chuck to the Board," said Bruce Scott, PointBase president and CEO. "Chuck brings a vast wealth of experience in senior management, revenue growth, embedded software, as well as mergers and acquisitions - areas vital to PointBase's future in the fast-growing mobile wireless market."

The PointBase Board of Directors

E. David Crockett, General Partner, Aspen Ventures
Crockett was a founding partner of Aspen Ventures in 1991. From 1987 until 1991, he was a Vice President at 3i Ventures and before that spent 26 years in the computer industry. As President/CEO, he took Pyramid Technology public and focused it on database applications. As President/CEO of Dataquest, he built the company into the world's largest technology market research firm.

Aspen Ventures invests in young, dynamic, information technology companies, particularly those in software and data communications with compelling, highly differentiated technology-based solutions that address large markets. Aspen makes a long-term commitment when investing in a company and works with management to set realistic performance expectations based on its experience in strategic and financial planning.

Brian J. Grossi, General Partner, AVI Management Partners
Grossi has been providing seed and early-stage financing to high-technology firms in Silicon Valley and Southern California since 1982. He began his career in the R&D Department of Hewlett-Packard's Opto-Electronics Division and did groundbreaking design work for HP Laboratories. After six years at SRI as a Research Engineer and Project Leader, Grossi co-founded Alpha Partners in 1982, Alpha Partners II in 1984, and Alpha Partners III in 1988. Currently, besides serving on the PointBase Board, Brian is also a Director of Digimarc Corporation, Vivant!, Intraspect Software, nCommand, Inc., Inviso, Inc., Apptitude, Inc., Aptia Inc., and is a Board observer for Objectivity, Inc.

AVI Management Partners III is the General Partner of a family of professionally-managed venture capital partnerships specializing in seed and early-stage investments in high-technology companies positioned for high growth segments of the Information Technologies market. In addition to capital, AVI brings extensive operating experience and a network of contacts in the financial, business, and technical worlds to assist the emerging company to develop its full potential.

Nigel W. Stokes, Chairman, President and CEO, DataMirror Corporation
Stokes, a Certified Management Consultant, worked as a computer consultant for more than 15 years, initially in technical roles with such organizations as DuPont Canada, Rio Algom and the Toronto Stock Exchange, and later as a Principal with Ernst & Young in the computer consulting field. In 1986 he founded Nidak Associates Inc., a client/server and relational database consulting firm, which in 1993 was sold to SHL Systemhouse, a worldwide system integration and computer consulting firm for which Stokes became a Managing Director. After a transition period with SHL during which time he substantially increased both sales and profitability, he left in October of 1994 to help launch DataMirror.

DataMirror Corporation develops and markets enterprise data replication and transformation software for business applications such as loading and replenishing data marts and warehouses, data and workload distribution, high availability and backup and recovery, application integration, and content delivery for electronic business solutions. DataMirror's products are used across the industry spectrum by organizations in financial services, automotive, food and beverage, entertainment, manufacturing, retail, healthcare and pharmaceutical, natural resources, and other fields.

Jim Wooder, Vice President, Helix Investments (Canada) Inc.
Wooder focuses on early-stage investments in technology, software, and telecommunications at Helix, a $300 million North America-based venture capital company. He has more than twenty years of investment management experience, including five at Helix.

Wooder has held senior management positions at such financial institutions as Citibank Canada, where he served as vice president of the Investment Capital Division; Canadian Mezzanine Investments, where as senior vice president he was responsible for making and managing investments in private companies past the start-up stage; and The Middlefield Group, where he consulted in both the Real Estate and Venture Capital areas.

Richard Finkelstein, Chief Technical Officer, JK&B Capital
Finkelstein is an internationally recognized authority on client-server computing, relational database management and Internet/intranet web deployment. Mr. Finkelstein founded and headed Performance Consulting, a technology consulting firm for more than ten years, serving such major clients as IBM, Oracle, Microsoft and Computer Associates. Earlier in his career, Mr. Finkelstein held management positions at CNA Insurance, Illinois Bell, Borg Warner and the City of Chicago. He has been co-chairman of DCI Database and the DCI Internet conferences and is a frequent speaker at major industry events. The author of numerous articles in leading industry and business publications, Mr. Finkelstein is co-author of the book, Oracle Power Objects Developers Guide.

Bruce Scott, Founder, President and CEO, PointBase
Scott has more than 20 years experience in the database development industry. With Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates, Bruce co-founded Oracle in 1977 where he co-authored the first three versions of the Oracle database. After that, he co-founded Gupta Technology (now called Centura Software) in 1984, where he came up with the notion of the small footprint workgroup server for the Intel-based platform, and delivered to the marketplace Gupta's SQLBase - the first database designed specifically for PC LANs. Bruce was also a founder and principal at inquiry.com, an Internet company that developed an early "portal" focused on providing information to IT decision makers.

About PointBase
PointBase, the leader in mobile wireless data management, develops, markets and supports solutions for extending and synchronizing enterprise data out to wireless devices, Internet appliances, mobile applications, PDAs, and networked servers. The company's 100% Pure Java products solve the problem of managing data for applications deployed globally across a diversity of platforms.

PointBase was established in 1998 by Bruce Scott, co-founder of Oracle Corporation and Gupta/Centura Software, and Jeff Richey, one of the key developers of the Sybase SQL database server. The management team includes industry veterans from IBM, Oracle, Sybase, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems. More information about PointBase is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.pointbase.com.
 

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