April 11,
2000
 INTERNET
COMPONENT DEVELOPER BUZZEO APPOINTS RICK HIGHTOWER TO MANAGER
OF ZEOLOGIX
Buzzeo's Enterprise JavaBeans Business Information
Tool In Good Hands
Phoenix,
AZ, April 11, 2000 — Buzzeo today announced the appointment of
Rick Hightower as Manager of ZeoLogixTM. ZeoLogix is Buzzeo's rules-driven,
CORBA-based business information tool that helps customers
surround the Internet with a component builder that hides the
complexities of CORBA and EJB development. ZeoLogix also
simplifies deployment of Internet applications with a set of
collaborating EJBTM Servers
that support XML-Managed Content.
"Rick has
demonstrated excellent software design and development
abilities," said Robert DeAnna, vice president of Engineering
and Director of ZeoLogix development. "While Rick was a
Principal Software Engineer, I came to rely more and more on
his superior communication skills and thorough knowledge of
the EJB space, particularly the impact it was having on the
development of business information systems that will be
deployed on the Internet."
DeAnna emphasized that while ZeoLogix is designed to
simplify the development and deployment of Internet
applications, the technology behind it is varied and complex.
"ZeoLogix incorporates the entire J2EETM standard and CORBA programming as well
as our own collaborative server architecture which adds
intricacies like rules and workflow processing. Day-to-day
management of ZeoLogix requires a broad skill-set. Rick's
experience, combined with a renaissance approach to object
programming, puts ZeoLogix in good hands."
Rick Hightower's resume more than meets Robert DeAnna's
"broad skill-set" requirements. A self-described "C++ bigot"
("Programming Languages for the JVM," Java Developer's
Journal, April 2000), Mr. Hightower learned, albeit
reluctantly at first, that Java improved his development
team's productivity. Since that epiphany, Mr. Hightower
shifted his focus to Java and prior to joining Buzzeo, was
senior software engineer specializing in Java architecture for
Intel.
Mr. Hightower has written throughout his career. He
contributed a chapter on DCOM to "Java Distributed Objects"
(Macmillan Computer Publishing, 1998) and reprised the
DCOM/Java topic in Java Developer's Journal ("Developing with
DCOM and Java," October 1999.)
He is also completing a book on JPythonTM an implementation of the Python
programming language designed to run on the Java
PlatformTM for Addison Wesley
Longman.
"ZeoLogix has an exciting future," Hightower said. "We're
all very aware of just how competitive the market is. We're
equally aware of just how solid our technology is and
energized by the progress we make each week."
In addition to helping Robert DeAnna guide ZeoLogix toward
a new release in mid-June, Rick Hightower is busy writing a
white paper that describes the key elements of ZeoLogix
technology. "A Framework for Building Rules-based Components
for Internet Applications" will be available at Buzzeo's booth
at Sun Microsystems' JavaOneTM
Developer's Conference. (June 6-9, Moscone Convention Center,
San Francisco.)
Mister Hightower is a graduate of ITT Technical Institute
and was the recipient of a Professional Sequence Award in MS
Windows Programming from the University of California, Santa
Cruz.
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