The Powersoftization of Sybase Inc is almost complete with the resignation of enterprise products group president Dennis
McEvoy who’s gone to text retrieval company and Sybase partner Verity Inc, where he will oversee research and
development, support and consulting groups as executive VP. And Bob Currie, Sybase’s VP and general manager North
American sales, going to Brio Technology Inc as VP worldwide field operations at the Palo Alto, California desktop decision
support software company. David Litwack, former president of Sybase’s Powersoft business group gets McEvoy’s reports in
his new role as executive VP products, now responsible for both the Powersoft application development and Sybase
database (enterprise) products. Like the Powersoft group, the latter unit will now be decomposed into around eight different
product offerings, none of them a core flagship product. McEvoy’s resignation follows the recent appointment of Powersoft
founder and CEO Mitchell Kertzman to the Sybase helm as president and CEO, replacing Sybase co-founder Mark Hoffman
(CI No 2,959). The blood-letting comes after two quarters of losses which Sybase seems unable to reverse. Kertzman was
given many of former COO and executive VP David Peterschmidt’s responsibilities back in April when he was elevated to
executive VP sales (CI No 2,886).
