Aestiva Announces NET-anywhere Initiative.Business Editors/Technology Writers TORRANCE Torrance, industrial and residential city (1990 pop. 133,107), Los Angeles co., SW Calif.; inc. 1921. It has large aircraft and electronics industries. Among its many manufactures are aircraft, electronics, communications equipment, aluminum products, steel, and , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 2001 Aestiva announced a new initiative this week, called NET-anywhere, dedicated to giving Web developers the ability to develop dynamic Web sites once, on one kind of hardware, and deploy anywhere. "Our use of the word 'anywhere' is not an accident," stated Aestiva Director of Technology, D.M. Silverberg. "Companies should be building Web applications that run on any hardware, anywhere." Aestiva is opposed to large software companies who design their Web strategies around monopolistic legacy architectures. Such efforts result in development and product costs that are so high only the richest corporations can participate. "Legacy strategies kill Web innovation," said Silverberg. "Just as they killed innovation in the pre-Web software industry. Aestiva isn't is·n't Contraction of is not. isn't is not isn't be interested in protecting the out-of-date technologies of a few corporations," Silverberg added. "We are proponents of Web technologies that further the advancement of the Web for everyone." Alice Schneider, MIS director See CIO. MIS Director - Chief Information Officer for the New York City Marathon The New York City Marathon is an annual marathon foot-race run over a 42,195 m (26.2 mile) course through all five boroughs of New York City. It is the largest marathon race in the world, and with 37,866 finishers in 2006, was also the largest marathon race ever run. , agrees with this principle. "Our new Web site uses software from Aestiva. It's spread across Sun servers running on both Intel and Sparc hardware. A run-anywhere technology is a must. And as a nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. company, affordability is critical." Aestiva's NET-anywhere initiative opens the door to the development of high-end Web-based products priced for the small business market. Aestiva's development platform, HTML/OS, is built around a NET-anywhere architecture. It features a built-in cross-platform Web database engine and support for Web-based product packaging. Products developed with HTML/OS run without modification on almost any kind of server, even in shared hosting accounts. Despite the hundreds of possible hardware configurations, products take only minutes to install. Aestiva's NET-anywhere initiative focuses on three efforts now underway. The first is the continued development of Aestiva HTML/OS on a NET-anywhere architecture. Applications created on one platform can be deployed on any other -- like HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. documents. Aestiva's second effort involves proving the speed and power of NET-anywhere architecture. Aestiva recently announced four new products on its Web site, all built with HTML/OS. The products deliver enterprise quality while being affordable for small businesses. The products are fine examples of what Web developers can do with a NET-anywhere architecture. The third effort at Aestiva is developing new tools to help independent programmers This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions. See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists build their own Web-based products. Aestiva actively works on reducing the development time needed to learn, develop and deploy software for the World Wide Web. Aestiva's NET-anywhere initiative fills an important gap in the Web development world. Millions of businesses are seeking affordable, commercially supported Web-based applications See Web application. . Now, with Aestiva's NET-anywhere architecture, developers can answer this need. To read Aestiva's NET-anywhere whitepaper visit http://www.aestiva.com/whitepaper. About Aestiva LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control Aestiva is a leader in Web-based computing computing - computer . Its technology operates on Unix, Linux, Windows and Macintosh hardware and is well known for its speed and scalability. Aestiva's focus on the Web has made it the favorite development platform for thousands of Web designers worldwide. |
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