David Skok to keynote at DIIME/97 in Chicago

DIIME/97 (http://www.diime.com

) show attendees will have the opportunity to hear David Skok discuss how corporations can leverage the Web to build sophisticated new applications combining structured and unstructured information.

Skok is the founder of Watermark Software (Burlington, MA, http://www.watermark.com) and the man who sold it to FileNet (Costa Mesa, CA, http://www.filenet.com) for some $64 million. These days, Skok is doing what he has a history of doing well: starting up a new high-tech company--this time in the burgeoning Internet market.

Speaking of his new firm, SilverStream Software (Burlington, MA, http://www.silverstream.com), Skok said, "SilverStream has developed a next-generation Web applications platform that allows customers to easily develop and deploy sophisticated, Java-based business applications that access both structured relational databases and rich content."

According to Skok, SilverStream offers the first comprehensive solution that includes all necessary components such as security, database access, full-text retrieval and other features. Skok has assembled a management team at SilverStream that includes David Litwack as president and CEO. Litwack is former president and founder of Powersoft (Concord, MA).

Now that Skok has had some time to reflect on the imaging industry, it will be interesting to hear what he has to say about the companies and people he used to compete against.