It was founded by Leonid Rudy, who during 1998-2002 was a senior software developer at TogetherSoft Corp., the provider of a once-leading UML modeling tool called Together. (Now, TogetherSoft is completely dissolved into Borland Software Corporation).

During his days at TogetherSoft, among other things, Leonid Rudy was responsible for the creation of the template-based automatic doc-generation subsystem in Together, which largely unchanged still persists right now in the most recent versions of Borland® Together®, including even the latest one -- Together 2007 -- where such an ancient stuff is even mentioned now as one of the key features!

Having found himself without job during the process of the apparent decline of TogetherSoft and its subsequent acquisition by Borland, Leonid Rudy has eventually come to the realization that the only way for him to continue expressing his ideas and not to waste his rich experience in the field is to start an independent firm. Now, that aspiration is increasingly becoming a reality.

The company purpose is to provide us with an independent business vehicle that would allow to more concentrate on the research and development and less be hindered by various circumstances and personages essentially unrelated to technology.

The goal is to become a provider of outstanding quality software development tools and solutions based on radically new ideas, latest technologies and highly algorithmic content in such fields as data access, retrieval, processing and representation.

Acknowledgments

We would like to express special thanks to Kirill Schoukin, St. Petersburg, Russia for his contribution to the product development; Valentin Meimann for the web-site design; Angelika Kirchmeyer at GRAND!N! for preparing all legal framework and valuable advices; and Bea Lotz for assistance in organization.