theKompany.com Adds Three to Growing Team

Business Wire,  May 30, 2000  

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RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2000

theKompany.com, producers and distributors of high-quality open source and commercial Linux software, continues to grow with the addition of three new members to its professional team, announced President and CEO Shawn Gordon.

theKompany.com has beefed up its core development team by adding two open source programmers from existing development projects. theKompany.com welcomed Phil Thompson, developer of PyQt and PyKDE, a package for using the Python programming language with Qt and KDE development; and Max Judin, developer of KDE Studio, an IDE tool for developing KDE applications for Linux.

Both of these projects are now being hosted by theKompany.com. This is in addition to their recently announced two-year financial support of the Kword project, part of Koffice for KDE.

"We intend to do as much as we can to support existing and future open source development projects," said Gordon. "Furthermore, we are proud to have two such expert programmers on board with us. We look forward to working with them and others as time goes on."

As a further step toward theKompany.com's efforts to create and promote all-around quality products, Web and graphic designer John Grantham has been engaged to create theKompany.com's corporate identity, packaging and Web site. Grantham previously produced the corporate identity and Web sites of Loki Entertainment Software, LinuxPPC Inc.; ON Channel Inc.; and macnews.de.

"We are all long-standing, active members of the open source and Linux development community," Gordon said. "We have taken this opportunity to develop new software and improve existing open source software. In addition, we have fine tuned and streamlined the distribution process in order to deliver it to the users and developers of Linux quickly, and at a lower cost."

With more than a dozen commercial products to his credit, Gordon has himself lead software development for more than 15 years in nine different languages. He has served as information and technology officer for ReviewCo, a division of Foundation Health; PayUSA, Bourns Inc.; and L.A. Gear.

theKompany.com, a California-based company has developer teams in North America and Europe. theKompany.com fills a need in the Linux community for mass-marketed, quality Linux software by producing developer tools like its flagship product, PowerPlant.

theKompany.com's products are marketed both online and through B&M channels. Visit www.theKompany.com for more information: theKompany.com, 5 Coluso, Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. 92688. Phone: 949/713-3276, Fax: 949/713-4846.

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