Allaire Ships Cold Fusion, a Next-Generation World Wide Web Database Development Tool.MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 1995--Allaire today announced it is shipping Cold Fusion(TM), the industry's most advanced WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. database development tool for Windows NT and Windows 95. Cold Fusion enables developers to easily build interactive forms-based Web database applications. Cold Fusion allows developers to integrate databases into Web sites by easy-to-learn database markup tags to standard 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. files. These tags, known as DBML DBML DataBase Markup Language DBML Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory (database markup language), can be used to insert, update and query for data. Applications created using Cold Fusion include order entry, event registration, bulletin board-style conferencing, catalog searching, business listings and customer support centers. According to J.J. Allaire, Cold Fusion greatly improves the process of creating Web database applications. "Existing techniques for Web database development require an extensive amount of low-level CGI CGI in full Common Gateway Interface. Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program. programming. Cold Fusion simply eliminates the need to write code, thereby allowing users to create sophisticated applications quickly and easily." Developers using Cold Fusion are able to construct data input forms in a matter of minutes A Matter of Minutes is an episode from the television series The New Twilight Zone. Cast
"The cost-benefit of Cold Fusion is tremendous," says Charles Wilson, chairman of Culture Shock, Inc., a Minneapolis-based consulting firm. "Businesses no longer have to hire a team of programmers to create a robust Web presence. Cold Fusion is an affordable and effective way to publish information and interact with customers using the World Wide Web." Cold Fusion works with all popular Windows NT and Windows 95 Web servers including WebSite, NetScape, EMWAC EMWAC European Microsoft Windows Academic Centre and Purveyor. Applications created with Cold Fusion can integrate data from an Open Database Connectivity See ODBC. (standard, database) Open DataBase Connectivity - (ODBC) A standard for accessing different database systems. There are interfaces for Visual Basic, Visual C++, SQL and the ODBC driver pack contains drivers for the Access, Paradox, dBase, Text, Excel and Btrieve (ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. ) compliant database system including Access, SQL Server, Paradox, dBase, FoxPro and Excel. Cold Fusion is available for $495. More information and a fully-functional 30-day evaluation version of Cold Fusion are available from the Allaire Web site at http://www.allaire.com/cfusion/. Allaire is a software company dedicated to creating high quality development tools for Internet publishing. For more information contact J.J. Allaire at 612/831-1808 for via e-mail at jallaire@allaire.com Media, contact Lisa Dorn at 612/832-5000 or via e-mail at ljdorn@shandwick.com. CONTACT: Allaire J.J. Allaire, 612/831-1808 Internet: jallaire@allaire.com or Mona Meyer McGrath & Gavin Lisa Dorn, 612/832-5000 x378 Internet: ljdorn@shandwick.com |
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