Jabber.com Forms Technical Advisory Board
Aug 31st, 22:14 UTC
Jabber.com Announces Formation Of Technical Advisory Board
Craig Burton, Rohit Khare and Stephen Williams appointed as first three board members
DENVER - Jabber.com Inc., a subsidiary of Webb Interactive Services Inc. (NASDAQ: WEBB), today announced the formation of the Jabber.com technical advisory board and the appointment of its first three members, Craig Burton, Rohit Khare and Stephen Williams.
All three individuals represent highly respected technology visionaries and each comes with decades of real-world experience in shaping the network computing industry. Burton, a well-known network services industry analyst, was a founding member of Novell and co-founded the Burton Group. Khare has played a pivotal role in the development of Internet and World Wide Web standards and is the founder and chief executive officer of 4K Associates and KnowNow. Williams has played a key role in the development of the instant messaging industry by designing and implementing AOL's Buddylist server (versions 1.x), used by over 8 Million users and supporting over 300,000 simultaneous connections.
"Building on Jabber's strategic advantages in distributed instant messaging, XML and open source, we're uniquely poised to create a key component of the next wave of Internet infrastructure. The guidance of visionaries who have deep experience in scalable, mission critical networking and messaging
services will accelerate our success in this enormous opportunity," said Andre Durand, general manager of Jabber.com Inc. "This board was formed to provide Jabber.com and the Jabber open source movement with the very best technical guidance, insight and strategic direction. These individuals understand how to build, position and apply technology in ways that can redefine XML-based IM into a very strategic component of Internet
communications."
Craig Burton
Burton served as senior vice president of corporate marketing and development at Novell. During his eight years with Novell, Burton's unique market strategies (which included the development of concepts such as file server technology, hardware independence, fault tolerance, Universal NetWare Architecture and NetWare Open Systems) resulted not only in market leadership for Novell, but also served to accelerate the movement toward transparent multi-vendor computing. Burton also co-founded The Burton Group in 1989 and coined the phrase "meta-directory" as part of his research into network computing technology and industry trends.
Burton is a frequent speaker at worldwide industry events such as INTEROP, ETRE, NetWorld, COMDEX, PC Expo and vendor-specific networking events. His market analysis is often published in industry trade publications such as Network Computing, InfoWorld and LANTimes. Over the years, Burton's
contributions to network computing have earned him recognition as one of the industry's most influential executives in Computer Reseller News in November of 1988 and in Simon & Schuster's The Computer Industry Almanac 1992.
Rohit Khare
As founder and chief executive officer of 4K Associates and KnowNow, Khare has been involved in the process of creating Internet standards and standards strategy for many years. Khare joined the Ph.D. program in computer science at the University of California, Irvine in 1997 to develop next-generation protocols for HTTP and proactive Event Notification. Prior to that, he served as a member of the MCI Internet Architecture staff in Boston, Mass., as well as two years on the founding technical staff of the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT, where he focused on security and electronic commerce issues.
He has been involved in the development of cryptographic software tools and Web-related standards development since 1993. Khare will bring extensive knowledge of scalable systems, Internet infrastructure strategy and the inner workings of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to the Technology Advisory Board.
Stephen Williams
Williams is a technical and business professional with more than 17 years of experience in more than 50 projects at Fortune 100 companies such as America Online, Bank of America, Lexis-Nexis, General Electric, Geico, NCR (now ATT), Chemical Bank (now Chase), and Computer Sciences Corporation. While at AOL, Williams designed and implemented the first version of AOL's Buddylist server (v1.x), which was a precursor to the popular AOL Instant Messenger(sm). Williams has served in executive management and technical roles including positions as CTO for ReverseAuction.com, CTO for Netword, president of Concinnous Consulting Inc., and consultant to numerous other companies, including Internet startups such as VisitingCities.com, Alexus.com, PremierInternet.com.
About Jabber.com
Jabber.com Inc. (http://www.jabber.com), a subsidiary of Webb Interactive Services (NASDAQ: WEBB), is the premiere provider of enterprise and carrier-grade Jabber solutions, products and services. Jabber is the only open source instant messaging platform which leverages XML and a distributed
architecture designed to extend and bridge IM applications while providing a foundation for any application requiring real-time messaging.
About Webb Interactive Services, Inc.
Webb Interactive Services (http://www.webb.net) provides innovative online commerce communication solutions that help small businesses generate leads, increase buyer-seller interaction, and strengthen customer relationships. Webb has pioneered an advanced XML-based technology platform, upon which application modules are built that lead the convergence of instant messaging and commerce.
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(Submitted by Justin Mecham of JabberCentral)
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