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Mark Logic's Engineering Manager To Present At High Performance Transaction Systems (HPTS) Workshop

What:

SAN CARLOS, CA — October 2, 2007 — Mark Logic® Corporation, provider of the industry's leading XML content platform, today announced that Ron Avnur, engineering manager at Mark Logic Corporation, will present at the biennial High Performance Transaction Systems (HPTS) workshop, October 7-9.

Avnur's presentation, entitled “MarkLogic Server: Not Your Grandmother's Database,” will go behind the scenes of the creation of this special purpose database designed for XML and built to handle 100s of terabytes of unstructured and semi-structured information. He will detail the experience of building this commercially-proven enterprise-grade XML content platform from scratch, answering the following questions:

  • What turned out to be an implementation exercise?
  • What did we engineer?
  • And when did we find ourselves doing new science?

The High Performance Transaction Systems (HPTS) workshop is a biennial meeting that brings together researchers, implementers, and users of high-scale transaction processing systems. HPTS started in 1985 when a group from leading database companies and universities got together with the goal of sharing ideas to enable database systems to reach the lofty goal of 1,000 transactions per second. The goals have moved on over the years, but the flavor of this small, invitation only workshop has remained the same.

This workshop is an opportunity for builders of large-scale systems to share emerging trends and best practices in an open, interactive environment.

Who:

Ron Avnur is the engineering manager in the Mark Logic product group, responsible for MarkLogic Server. He has been working in database and systems design since 1996, and his experience includes work for enterprise software companies Cohera (PeopleSoft), BusinessLayers (Netegrity), and Informix. Avnur holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science, and a master's degree in computer science, both from University of California, Berkley.

When:

The 2007 HPTS workshop will be held October 7-10, 2007, at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California. Attendance is by invitation only.

For more information please visit http://www.hpts.ws/index.html

Contacts:

Danielle Guinebertiere
Mark Logic
650-655-2365
danielle.guinebertiere@marklogic.com

Lindsey Hart
Eastwick Communications
650-480-4068
lindsey@eastwick.com

About Mark Logic Corporation

Mark Logic Corporation is the provider of the industry's leading XML content server. Mark Logic works with providers of information products to accelerate new product creation, deliver products through multiple channels, integrate content from different sources, repurpose content into multiple products, build custom publishing systems, and mine content to find previously undiscovered information. The company holds two patents on the innovative technology in MarkLogic Server which enables companies to load, query, manipulate, and render XML content using the W3C standard XQuery language. Designed for high performance and scalability, MarkLogic Server can deliver millisecond response times against multi-terabyte contentbases. Mark Logic is privately held and backed by Sequoia Capital and Lehman Brothers. For more information or to download a free trial copy of MarkLogic Server, go to www.marklogic.com or visit the Mark Logic CEO blog at marklogic.blogspot.com.