**EXHIBIT 31.01**

 

**Certification of ChiefExecutive Officer and Chief Financial Officer Pursuant To Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(a) /15d-14(a) As Adopted Pursuant To Section 302 of The Sarbanes-OxleyAct of 2002**

 

I,Jochen Witte, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer ofVersant Corporation, certify that:

 

1.               I have reviewed thisannual report on Form 10-KSB of Versant Corporation (the “small businessissuer”);

 

2.               Based on myknowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material factor omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, inlight of the circumstances under which such statements were made, notmisleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

3.               Based on myknowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information includedin this report, fairly present in all material respects the financialcondition, results of operations and cash flows of the small business issuer asof, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 

4.               The small businessissuer’s other certifying officer(s), if any, and I are responsible forestablishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined inExchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the small businessissuer and have:

 

a)                                      Designed suchdisclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls andprocedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that materialinformation relating to the small business issuer, including its consolidatedsubsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularlyduring the period in which this report is being prepared;

 

b)                                     Evaluated theeffectiveness of the small business issuer’s disclosure controls and proceduresand presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of thedisclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by thisreport based on such evaluation; and

 

c)                                      Disclosed in thisreport any change in the small business issuer’s internal control overfinancial reporting that occurred during the small business issuer’s mostrecent fiscal quarter (the small business issuer’s fourth fiscal quarter in thecase of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likelyto materially affect, the small business issuer’s internal control overfinancial reporting.

 

5.               The small businessissuer’s other certifying officer(s), if any and I have disclosed, based on ourmost recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the smallbusiness issuer’s auditors and the audit committee of small business issuer’sboard of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

 

a)                                      All significantdeficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internalcontrol over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adverselyaffect the small business issuer’s ability to record, process, summarize andreport financial information; and

 

b)                                     Any fraud, whether ornot material, that involves management or other employees who have asignificant role in the small business issuer’s internal control over financialreporting.

 
| Date:  January 27, 2006 |
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| By                           | /s/  Jochen Witte |   |
|                         | Jochen  Witte |
|                         | Chief  Executive Officer/Chief Financial Officer |

 

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