San Diego, Calif. - March 14th, 2007 - Lorant Corporation (d.b.a. Vista Software) is pleased to announce today that Dr. Jason Short and his new entity VistaDB Software, Inc. (Owned by Emerald Technology, Inc.) has signed an agreement today to acquire the VistaDB product line from Vista Software.
“I am very excited to announce that Dr. Short will be taking over VistaDB,” stated Anthony Carrabino, President/CEO, Vista Software. “Jason and his team have a wide range of technical knowledge and organizational skills that will bring VistaDB to new levels as the world’s best managed and embedded SQL database engine for .NET, Compact Framework and Mono. VistaDB customers, our development team and the VistaDB product line will benefit greatly from this acquisition.”
As a long time power user of VistaDB, Dr. Short has used VistaDB, .NET and Mono to develop a commercial cross-platform spam filtering product called Emerald Spam Shield. Emerald’s state-of-the-art spam filtering engine scales to hundreds of concurrent users in real-time and makes extreme use of VistaDB.
VistaDB customers have been benefiting from Jason’s .NET and VistaDB expertise for years on the company’s support forums as the number one contributor. Dr. Short and co-worker Mike McDonald’s in-depth knowledge of VistaDB and .NET is expected to bring a great deal of value to VistaDB customers, stated Carrabino.
“The deep integration of VistaDB into Emerald Spam Shield has given us priceless first hand experience with VistaDB,” stated Dr. Short. “We know exactly what is needed in the product and we finally have the ability to make direct changes. I am very excited to take over the VistaDB product line and look forward to working with the team to make VistaDB better than ever before.”
Dr. Short and his team are expert C# developers that specialize in managed code optimization. According to Carrabino, he expects that Jason and Mike will make immediate contributions to help VistaDB performance and scalability. Other improvements to the VistaDB release and testing process are already taking place, so VistaDB customers can expect to benefit very soon from this acquisition. New and improved VistaDB documentation and technical articles are already in the works as well.
The VistaDB development team that includes Mr. Mike Orlov and Mr. Evgeniy Bhatov have been working closely with Jason for weeks and will be joining VistaDB Software, Inc. Anthony Carrabino, President/CEO of Vista Software has been working closely with the new management team and expects all operations to be completely moved over by April 1, 2007.