ORBiT Software (800.896.7248) VP of Technology Mark Klein announced the company has added long-time HP 3000 developer Paul Taffel to its Development Group. “Paul has extensive and very unusual experience as an HP 3000 third-party developer, going back almost 15 years,” Klein said. “He has held a number of development positions with major HP 3000 software suppliers, and is responsible for the addition of many innovative features to their products. There are not too many large HP 3000 sites today that don’t use one or more examples of his work. Paul is a highly talented engineer who further improves ORBiT’s R&D department team as one of the foremost on the HP 3000. We are very pleased to have him as a member of this team.”

Taffel’s posts include years of creation at Quest, with work on the NetBase, Vista Plus and NFS/iX product lines, and work at Bradmark Technologies, where he was product development manager in the company’s earliest years, managing its transition to TurboIMAGE and conversion from MPE/V to MPE/XL architecture. He designed the user interface for DBGENERAL still in use today. At APPIC, Taffel was technical director during the StarJet transition to Version 5 technology, and designed the product’s PCL sequence optimizer. Taffel also developed at VESOFT, working on MPEX, Security/3000 and VEAUDIT during (and after) rollout of Posix; he supervised development and rollout of four major MPEX releases.