[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] Update on tonight's PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

John Murphy called me to let us know that Bill Maimone who is Senior
Vice President of Worldwide Engineering at Ingres and a major force
behind open sourcing ingres will be coming to tonight's meeting.  This
is exciting.  I have attached Bill's bio below.

David Mandel
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Bill Maimone

Senior Vice President of Worldwide Engineering

Mr. Maimone leads Ingres's worldwide engineering team in architecting
and delivering the next generation of open source database solutions.
Mr. Maimone brings 20 years of Oracle database architecture management
to Ingres. Most recently, Mr. Maimone served as a vice president in
Oracle's Server Technologies division with responsibility for its
collaboration software, including content services and records
management.

For more than 10 years, he led Oracle's innovation in data security,
including pioneering technology developments and advances within the
U.S. and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) security
bodies. Furthermore, Mr. Maimone's scalability work on both releases of
Oracle7 and Oracle8 databases included real-world record database
scalability achievements.

While at Oracle, Mr. Maimone also managed worldwide, cross-functional
groups of developers working on identity management, SQL language and
runtime services, directory services, globalization, query optimization,
and data dictionary.

Mr. Maimone started his career at Oracle in 1986. He holds both master's
and bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and a bachelor's degree in
Science Journalism from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.