Active Software Announces Technology Licensing Agreement with Calico Technology; Calico Technology to Embed ActiveWeb in Concinity.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 1997--JAVA ONE--Active Software today announced an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and agreement with Calico Technology that enables Calico to incorporate Active Software's ActiveWeb Information Broker into Calico's Concinity line of sales configuration and electronic commerce products. Calico has adopted ActiveWeb as its application-to-application and application-to-Web intelligent transport layer. ActiveWeb ensures that messages reach their intended destination in the needed format, in the correct order, exactly once. "As a top provider of software used by companies looking to fully exploit the power of Web- or laptop-based sales processes A sales process is a systematic approach for performing product or service sales. The reasons for having a sales process include seller and buyer risk management, achieving standardized customer interaction in sales and scalable revenue generation. , we needed to integrate multiple front- and back-end platforms" said Dave Rome, Calico Technology vice president, marketing. "We chose Active Software's ActiveWeb Information Broker because only ActiveWeb provided the robust, reliable, anything-to-anything connectivity that Calico needed." "We are very excited that Calico chose ActiveWeb as their foundation for inter-application communications," said Jim Green
Born in Alabama, Green moved to Canada to avoid being drafted for the Vietnam War. , chairman and founder of Active Software. "This is the first in several OEM agreements that Active Software anticipates completing in the coming months, and having a high-profile company like Calico adopt our software validates our strategy of positioning ActiveWeb as an essential component for enterprise application development." "Active and Calico were two of the first companies funded by the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB KPCB Kings Park Concert Band ) Java Fund," said Ted Schlein, managing partner of the KPCB Java Fund. "This OEM agreement represents the first licensing collaboration between Java Fund companies and demonstrates the `keiretsu' approach as advocated by Kleiner Perkins." Calico Technology Calico Technology, located in San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif., is a leading provider of electronic commerce solutions that enable interactive buying or selling of complex products and services over a variety of platforms. Calico develops and markets Concinity, software designed to allow sales organizations, customers and end users to analyze requirements, access marketing data, configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. solutions, develop quotations, generate proposals, and place orders using the Internet, intranet, laptop computers A portable computer that has a flat LCD screen and usually weighs less than eight pounds. Often called just a "laptop," it uses batteries for mobile use and AC power for charging the batteries and desktop use. Today's high-end laptops provide all the capabilities of most desktop computers. and CD-ROMs. Concinity allows Calico's customers to achieve increased sales rep efficiency, expand channels of distribution, reduce costs, and increase customer satisfaction. Additional company information can be found at http://www.calicotech.com . Active Software Active Software, founded in 1995, is a leading provider of message brokering solutions that solve complex application integration problems facing today's distributed enterprises. The company's products enable the enterprise to dramatically improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their distributed information systems and allow users to communicate with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Active Software's ActiveWeb is the first message brokering solution that not only connects, but also integrates, heterogeneous Not the same. Contrast with homogeneous. heterogeneous - Composed of unrelated parts, different in kind. Often used in the context of distributed systems that may be running different operating systems or network protocols (a heterogeneous network). computing computing - computer resources such as legacy and client/server systems, applications, databases, Web-enabled platforms, and Java-enabled browsers. With ActiveWeb, customers can integrate yesterday's technology with today's, and today's technology with tomorrow's, without modifying existing applications. The company has its headquarters in Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. Telephone: (408) 988-0414. Fax: (408) 988-6607. World Wide Web: http:\\www.activesw.com . -0- Note to Editors: ActiveWeb is a trademark of Active Software. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Patti Kunsman Active Software, Inc. 408/969-5659 patti@activesw.com or Sandy McBride Simon/McGarry Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most 408/746-0911 smcbride@shandwick.com or Michalene Adams Calico Technology 408/975-7449 madams@calicotech.com or Hani A. Durzy II Alexander Communications 415/923-1660 hdurzy@alexander-pr.com |
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