ActiveBuddy Supports Thriving Community of BuddyScript Developers with BuddyScript Server Limited Edition.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 2002 Economically Priced Server Allows Developers to Showcase Interactive Agents Built with Buddyscript(TM) Technology ActiveBuddy today announced the immediate availability of BuddyScript Server Limited Edition, which enables the burgeoning community of BuddyScript(TM) developers to demonstrate their ActiveBuddy-powered interactive agents to a wide number of prospective clients. BuddyScript Server Limited Edition complements the recently released BuddyScript SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). , which allows developers to create interactive agents like SmarterChild, ActiveBuddy's popular demonstration agent. BuddyScript Server Limited Edition offers an affordable means to publish those interactive agents on public or private messaging networks or via a web chat environment (included in the BuddyScript SDK). "I am betting a major portion of my business on BuddyScript technology, and with BuddyScript Server Limited Edition, my small business clients will have an easier time justifying this exciting new user interface option," enthused Michael C. Pinkus, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and founder of United Inspirations of Atlanta, GA. "With this server, we can collaborate in a live environment with our larger clients during the prototype and development stages while offering our smaller clients a viable entry-level product." Interactive agents, often called "bots bots maggots of flies which infest animals, especially horses and sheep. The term bot is also loosely used to include the invasive maggots such as those of Cuterebra and Wohlfahrtia spp. horse bots see gasterophilus. ," are software applications that interact with users over Instant Messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or or any other two-way text messaging Sending short messages to a smartphone, pager, PDA or other handheld device. Text messaging implies sending short messages generally no more than a couple of hundred characters in length. platform. Developers have embraced ActiveBuddy's freely available SDK to create interactive agents and have demanded an affordably priced platform for deploying interactive agents on a small scale for demonstrating to customers. With the introduction of BuddyScript Server Limited Edition, ActiveBuddy offers a full range of server options for interactive agent deployment: -- BuddyScript Server Developer Edition -- for developer testing (included in the free BuddyScript SDK) -- BuddyScript Server Limited Edition -- for demonstration or personal use at an affordable price -- BuddyScript Server Enterprise Edition -- for deployment within the enterprise -- BuddyScript Server Commercial Edition -- for large-scale public deployment During its life cycle, an interactive agent application may be deployed on multiple versions of BuddyScript Server, starting with the Developer Edition for early testing, moving to the Limited Edition for client demonstration, and then to the Enterprise Edition or Commercial Edition for final deployment. For customers who prefer not to host their own interactive agents, ActiveBuddy also provides managed hosting services, offering maximum performance and reliability in ActiveBuddy's state-of-the art facility. BuddyScript Server Limited Edition allows 500 user sessions A count of how many times all users access a Web site regardless whether the same person came back several times during the measurement period. If a user leaves and returns within a short time, some systems count those sessions as one. Contrast with unique visitors. See also user session. per month, making it suitable for demo demo - /de'moh/ 1. A demonstration of a product, often of an early version or prototype. A demo is a far more effective way of inducing bugs to manifest themselves than any number of test runs, especially when important people are watching. 2. demo version. 3. deployments. It also allows hobbyists to deploy personal projects and distribute them on a small scale. BuddyScript Server Limited Edition is available immediately via download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. from ActiveBuddy's developer web site, www.BuddyScript.com, for a one-time license fee of $199. Pricing for BuddyScript Server Enterprise Edition and BuddyScript Server Commercial Edition scales depending on the size of the deployment. BuddyScript Server Enterprise Edition is licensed on a per-seat basis, whereas BuddyScript Server Commercial Edition is licensed based on monthly total session capacity. "BuddyScript Server Limited Edition provides an affordable solution for new BuddyScript developers to show off their interactive agents to potential clients," said Stephen Klein Klein , Melanie 1882-1960. Austrian-born British psychoanalyst who first introduced play therapy and was the first to use psychoanalysis to treat young children. , ActiveBuddy chief executive officer. "It's a testament to our technology that many developers are betting their businesses on BuddyScript capabilities and we're 100% committed to supporting them in growing their businesses." About ActiveBuddy ActiveBuddy is the leading provider of software for developing and hosting interactive agents, or software robots that "live" in any text-messaging environment. Marketers, content and service providers, and businesses use ActiveBuddy-powered interactive agents to increase the volume and quality of personal interactions with customers and employees without driving up the cost of personal service. ActiveBuddy's customers include eBay, Ford Motor Company, Keebler, Warner Bros. Records Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is internationally known as WEA International Inc. , New Line Cinema, Ogilvy Worldwide, Reuters Reuters British cooperative news agency. Founded in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter, it was initially concerned with commercial news but began to serve a growing newspaper clientele after the London Morning Advertiser subscribed in 1858. , and Lagardere Active's ElleGirl. Founded in March 2000, ActiveBuddy is based in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY, and Sunnyvale, CA. |
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