Allaire and Verity Announce Partnership to Integrate Verity's SEARCH'97 with Cold Fusion; Integrating SEARCH'97 with Cold Fusion Provides Developers Simultaneous Indexing And Searching Of Text Files And Content Stored In Databases.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 1997--Allaire Corp. and Verity, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :VRTY) today announced an agreement to integrate Verity's SEARCH'97 technology with Allaire's Cold Fusion cold fusion or low-temperature fusion, nuclear fusion of deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen, at or relatively near room temperature. Fusion, the reaction involved in the release of the destructive energy of a hydrogen bomb, requires extremely , a leading development tool for Web database applications. The integration gives Web developers the ability to easily build Web applications that combine indexing and searching of both text files and database content. Allaire is integrating Verity's SEARCH'97 technology into Cold Fusion 2.0. The beta version A pre-shipping release of hardware or software that has gone through alpha test. A beta version of software is supposed to be very close to the final product, but, in practice, it is more a way of getting users to test the software in the first place under real conditions. of this integration is now available, and Allaire plans to release the final version, which includes the Verity SEARCH'97 product components, in February 1997. The integration will be available to Allaire customers in the Cold Fusion subscription program. Extended support for additional Verity search/index features is planned to be included in future versions of Cold Fusion. Cold Fusion provides an easy-to-use environment for creating sophisticated Web database applications. The integration of Verity's search technology with Cold Fusion is designed to give developers an easy way to use full text indexing and searching in Web applications on intranets and on the Internet. The implementation does not require that developers write any code, the Verity engine being entirely supported in Cold Fusion through two simple Cold Fusion Markup Language markup language Standard text-encoding system consisting of a set of symbols inserted in a text document to control its structure, formatting, or the relationship among its parts. The most widely used markup languages are SGML, HTML, and XML. (CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) See ColdFusion. CFML - ColdFusion Markup Language ) server-side tags. The Cold Fusion Verity integration will allow developers to index an entire Web site's 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. directories, and even to have different document indexes/ collections for different Web sites running on their servers. The technology is highly customizable, providing the ability to simultaneously index and search static documents as well as content stored in a relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. . "Allaire is partnering with Verity as part of our commitment to support key application server technologies natively within Cold Fusion," said J.J. Allaire, 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. of Allaire Corp. "Verity is the leader in text indexing and searching technology. As a company focused on 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 distribution of its key application server, Allaire's partnership with them is a natural fit." Philippe Courtot, president and CEO of Verity, said, "Text indexing and searching technology is Verity's forte, and provides a natural complement to 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. or structured data searching. Verity's partnership with Allaire is an important step toward providing intelligent information searching and navigation in software and online applications." About Allaire Corp. Allaire is the leading provider of Web application development tools for Windows NT. Allaire's products include Cold Fusion Professional and Allaire Forums. For more information about Allaire Corp. and Cold Fusion contact Allaire directly at 617/761-2000 or 888/939-2545, by e-mail at info@allaire.com, or visit Allaire's Web site at http://www.allaire.com . About Verity Verity Inc. was founded in April 1988 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. Verity develops and markets software tools and applications for searching, retrieving and filtering information across the Internet, enterprise and CD-ROMs. Verity's products have been licensed to corporations, government agencies, on-line service providers, Internet publishers and developers worldwide. Verity partners include Adobe Systems, AT&T, Dow Jones, Hitachi, Individual Inc., Informix Software, Lotus Development Corp., Netscape Communications, PC DOCS, SAP, SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. , Sybase Inc., WavePhore and others. -0- Note to Editors: Cold Fusion is a U.S. registered trademark and Allaire is a trademark of Allaire Corp. Verity and SEARCH'97 are trademarks of Verity Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. CONTACT: Allaire Corp. Adam Berrey, 617/761-2161 aberrey@allaire.com http://www.allaire.com or Verity Inc. Marguerite Padovani, 408/542-2224 mpadovan@verity.com http://www.verity.com or Miller/Shandwick Technologies Richard Burger, 415/962-9550 rburger@millerwest.com |
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