Neuron Data Inc is strengthening its management team in preparation for an object-oriented product it claims goes beyond the Common Object Request Broker Architecture and Distributed Computing Environment gateways and integration products it has previously described (CI No 2,709). The one-time French application development house, now based in Mountain View, California, said it will deliver the new object programs by the middle of next year. Looking to reinvent itself as a high-end distributed enterprise application software house (CI No 2,709), it has appointed ex-Xerox Corp executive Hoshi Printer as chief financial officer and vice-president finance and administration. Co-founder Jean-Marie Chauvet is now vice-president technology while Pany Christoforou, Neuron Data UK managing director, becomes general manager for Europe.