Informix Founder, Roger Sippl, Joins Advisory Board of Pencel Corp. Industry Veteran Provides Expertise to Developer of Mobile Computing Solutions

Business Wire, May 15, 2001

Business/Technology Editors

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2001

Pencel Corporation, developer of mobile enterprise software and database application tools, announces the addition of Roger Sippl, founder of Informix, to its Advisory Board.

"We are proud to have Roger join our Advisory Board," said Chris Maloney, President & CEO, Pencel Corporation. "As a well-respected veteran in the technology industry, Roger's proven ability to grow pre-IPO companies makes him a valuable asset for us."

Sippl is a partner in Sippl Macdonald Ventures, a venture capital company investing in new software technologies. In addition to being the founder of Informix, Sippl went on to co-found Vantive (Nasdaq:VNTV), a worldwide leader in customer relationship management solutions acquired by PeopleSoft. Sippl also founded Visigenic, named by IDC as the fastest growing object middleware vendor. Visigenic was acquired by Borland, where Sippl assumed the position of chief technology officer.

During his tenure at Informix, the company pioneered SQL relational databases and online transaction processing (OLTP) and was the first company to offer a fourth-generation programming language (4GL) for the UNIX operating environment.

The addition of Sippl to the Pencel team enhances their existing expertise in relational database management systems, fourth-generation programming languages and visual development tools.

About Pencel

Pencel Corporation develops software applications and tools for mobile enterprise applications. Through a mobile enterprise database platform, a visual mobile application development tool and professional services, Pencel is targeting enterprises that have mobile business operations by connecting those mobile workers to corporate data resources.

By licensing its mobile database and application deployment platform, Kinectivity, Pencel allows enterprises to extend their existing enterprise data systems to a variety of mobile devices. Pencel's mobile application development tool, Kinectivity Studio, gives enterprises and their solutions providers a single visual environment to easily create custom mobile applications without the requirement of procedural programming.