John Goodson
A long-time participant in developing specifications for data access, John Goodson, has steered the course for DataDirect Technologies for several years. John has been involved with de facto data access standards, such as ODBC and JDBC, since the early 1990s. He was a member of expert groups that developed Java specifications, such as the JDBC RowSet.
John is Vice President and General Manager of DataDirect Technologies, where he is responsible for daily operations, business development, product direction and long-term corporate strategy.
John brings significant technical and business leadership to the company. Joining DataDirect in 1992 as an engineer, he has since held positions of increasing responsibility in research and development, technical support and marketing. John is a well known and respected industry luminary and data connectivity expert. For more than 10 years, he has worked closely with Sun and Microsoft on the development and evolution of database connectivity standards including J2EE, JDBC, .NET, ODBC and ADO. John has been involved with the ANSI H2 Committee, which is responsible for building the SQL standard and the SQL Access Group, which has been responsible for building call level interfaces into relational databases. He is now actively involved in Java standards committees, including the JDBC Expert Group and Java Rowsets. This active leadership has helped his team develop the most technically advanced data connectivity technologies.
For the SOAWorld and DataServices World conferences in New York City, John delivered a keynote presentation titled "Frontiers in Data Access: The Coming Wave in Data Services".
Frontiers in Data Access (Keynote at SOAWorld)
Slides Video Podcast (MP3)
Interview about Data Access Trends (Enterprise Data Forum)
