Re: Norm Tovey-Walsh is joining Saxonica

and commiserations to MarkLogic

On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 6:32 AM Alan Painter <[email protected]> wrote:

> Congratulations to Norm and Saxonica!
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 11:33 Michael Kay <mike-JkSD5nQpfvpWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm delighted to announce that Norm Tovey-Walsh is joining Saxonica with
>> effect from 1st September.
>>
>> Many of you will know Norm, who has had a high profile in the XML
>> community for many years (and SGML before that). He's best known for his
>> work on DocBook and XProc but he's had a finger in many other pies
>> including long-term membership of the XSL working group (he was editor of
>> the XDM specification), the XML Core Working Group, the W3C Technical
>> Architecture Group, the initial specification work on JAXP, the
>> Oasis/Apache catalog resolver, and specs such as XML Base. Norm is
>> currently based in Swansea, Wales. I'm sure he will bring lots of
>> innovative ideas to the Saxon product line, as well as continuing his work
>> in the community.
>>
>> At the same time, John Lumley is ending his contract with Saxonica: he's
>> said for a while that he wants to spend more time with his family and his
>> model railway. But he's still full of ideas and enthusiasm. I suspect we
>> haven't seen the last of him, and he's promised that he'll help us out with
>> Saxon-JS issues if we need him.
>>
>> We're also currently looking for a replacement for Sue Schreiber, our
>> marketing and commercial person, who has been doing a sterling job keeping
>> the money coming in for more years than I can count. Most of her work
>> probably isn't visible to the technical community, but without her patience
>> negotiating the byzantine procurement processes of the mega-corporations
>> that many of you work for, we wouldn't be here. If you know of anyone who
>> is interested in stepping into her shoes, please let us know.
>>
>> As for me: I'm going to soldier on for a few years yet: I'm still
>> enjoying it, I still have lots of ideas, and I'm still a lot younger than
>> the next US President. Norm's arrival on the scene does mean, however, that
>> the company is now going to be viable without me, and I hope that's a
>> reassurance to the many businesses who have become critically dependant on
>> our software and our support.
>>
>> Michael Kay
>> Saxonica
>>
>>
>>
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