Aestiva Empowers Internet Presence Providers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers TORRANCE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 23, 2000 Web designers have wanted to operate databases in standard Web site hosting accounts since the start of the Web. The dream has been to build Web applications and deploy them anywhere. This dream fueled the birth of Aestiva HTML/OS, a platform that is finding new ways to expand the capabilities of Web designers and Internet Presence Providers (IPPs). Some IPPs support mySQL or mSQL databases but these require customers to have an in-depth knowledge of Perl, database integration and SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. . Furthermore, IPPs need to support these databases with their own support staff. Hundreds of IPPs have discovered the Aestiva solution. Aestiva and its built-in database runs out of any cgi-bin, a feature provided by most IPPs. IPPs, by virtue of providing a cgi-bin, already support Aestiva. IPPs are benefiting because Aestiva database engines are not maintained by the IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) A protocol for printing and managing print jobs over the Internet using HTTP. Initially conceived by Novell, Xerox and others, the IETF made it a standard in 2000 that includes authentication and encryption. See printing protocol and LPD. but by the customer through a Web-based point-and-click interface. Customers benefit because Aestiva's database is both more powerful and easier to use than the complex database engines sometimes offered by IPPs. The secret behind the Aestiva breakthrough is a highly advanced engine that serves a dual purpose -- it's a platform for developing and deploying dynamic Web sites and Web-based applications See Web application. ; and it includes a built-in, high-speed database engine. It's used by Web designers to create anything Web-based including applications with sophisticated database components. Unlike SQL-centric database engines, the Aestiva engine looks and feels more like "dBase," a favorite of business application developers before the Web. All work is done through Aestiva's Web-based interface. "Bringing ease-of-use and power to Web designers is what Aestiva is all about," said D.M. Silverberg, Aestiva's director of Technology. The database engine in Aestiva's version 1.8 includes Aestiva's latest technologies. Databases can be networked across multiple accounts giving customers more power when it's needed. Customers don't have to throw away their software investment if a Web site outgrows its shared hosting account. The site can simply be spread across more hosting accounts -- even at different IPPs. Other database architectures are not capable of scaling in this manner. "Aestiva is not tool-based computing," Silverberg said with pride. With tool-based computing, programmers patch together multiple complex products to create a Web site. As a site grows, Web designers are often pushed aside by integration experts who attract large consulting and development fees because designers lack the ability or desire to learn how to navigate the unnecessary complexities of the tools the specialists deploy. Aestiva evens the playing field for Web designers. With Aestiva, integration specialists are not needed because there's no more pasting products together. The designer using Aestiva can rely on their IPP and only needs to know 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. and some BASIC programming. Aestiva gives Web designers the power to retain control, lower costs and increase the sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. of the Web sites they produce. And it gives IPPs the ability to host any kind of Web site without added back-end support. "Web designers at all levels will be creating more advanced database-driven sites and Web applications," said Silverberg. "IPPs can do more than host Web brochures. They can host the Web applications that customers want to build and serve anyone who wants an advanced Web site." Aestiva HTML/OS is available for Sun, SGI-IRIX, BSDI BSDI - Berkeley Software Design, Inc. , FreeBSD, Linux, HPUX HPUX Hewlett-Packard Unix , DEC, Cobalt RaQ The Cobalt RaQ is a 1U rackmount server product line developed by Cobalt Networks, Inc. (later purchased by Sun Microsystems) featuring a modified Red Hat Linux operating system and a proprietary GUI for server management. , Windows, HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , MacOS 7-9 and MacOS X platforms. Aestiva HTML/OS retails for $799.99. About Aestiva LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control Aestiva created "the first operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. for the Web." 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. Aestiva's Web site is at http://www.aestiva.com. |
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