Page developed NATURAL as the first fourth-generation programming language, which was instrumental in Software AG's success.
After graduating from a gymnasium in Wiesbaden and studying electrical engineering at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, he worked from 1966 to 1970 as a hardware developer for process computers at AEG in Seligenstadt, where, as project manager, he was responsible for the development and introduction of process computer systems, including the AEG 60-10 system.
[1] In 1971, Pagé joined the Institute for Applied Information Processing (AIV), from which Software AG later emerged.
[7] In 1994, Pagé joined Siemens Nixdorf AG as a member of the executive board and chief technology officer responsible for systems strategy and application software.
In this function, he gave the company the "User Centered Computing"-architecture, which was in principle a service-oriented architecture (SOA), and reorganized their highly fragmented software offering.