PLATINUM TECHNOLOGY

OVERVIEW

Platinum Technology was a developer and marketer of database management software, and the only full-service software company specializing exclusively in software tools for large corporate users of DB2, an IBM database management product.

CEO1ST PARTNER(S)

Andrew "Flip" Filipowski, Chairman, President and CEO, was a founder of DBMS, Inc., where he served as President and CEO from 1979 to 1987. His previous experience was with Cullinet Software, A.B. Dick, Motorola and Time, Inc.