AlphaBlox Corp. Announces NetBlox Based on Netscape ONE; Intranet Building Blocks for an Open Network Environment.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 1996--AlphaBlox Corp. today announced NetBlox, an open technology initiative based on Netscape ONE, an open network environment for creating a new generation of distributed client/server applications. The first in a series of announcements revealing the AlphaBlox Intranet Building Blox strategy, NetBlox is designed to deliver building blocks for developers building Intranet/Internet applications. NetBlox fully leverages Netscape ONE as the premier cross-platform environment for creating next-generation Intranet applications. "NetBlox will provide a quantum leap quantum leap n. An abrupt change or step, especially in method, information, or knowledge: "War was going to take a quantum leap; it would never be the same" Garry Wills. in terms of improving development time, cost of delivery and maintenance for rapidly deploying Intranet and Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the applications," said Michael Skok, chairman and chief executive officer of AlphaBlox Corp. "We strongly endorse To sign a paper or document, thereby making it possible for the rights represented therein to pass to another individual. Also spelled indorse. endorse (indorse) v. the Netscape ONE platform and believe that adding our high value inter-operable software building blocks will significantly accelerate the development of mission-critical business applications using the simplicity of Web pages." "Where traditional vendors are simply porting their tools to the Web, AlphaBlox is now aligned with Netscape's open technologies to provide a new class of high level application building blocks," said Scott Fraize, director of technology and chief architect at AlphaBlox. NetBlox are uniquely designed from the ground up by leveraging Netscape ONE, including Java, Java Script, Netscape Internet Foundation Classes See IFC. (language, library, programming, standard) Internet Foundation Classes - (IFC) A library of classes used in the creation of Java applets with GUIs. , IIOP (Internet Inter-ORB Protocol) The CORBA message protocol used on a TCP/IP network (Internet, intranet, etc.). CORBA is the industry standard for distributed objects, which allows programs (objects) to be run remotely in a network. , and LiveConnect. "With support for the Netscape ONE technology platform, NetBlox can be rapidly deployed by developers building Intranet applications," said Srivats Sampath, senior vice president of servers and applications at Netscape. "This powerful combination of technology helps developers link existing client/server applications and legacy databases seamlessly into the corporate Intranet." AlphaBlox Corp. is currently expanding its customer advisory board, which consists of early adopters of NetBlox technology in the finance and banking industry. These customers are playing an integral part in the design and development of both the AlphaBlox core technology and the first implementation of NetBlox focused on mission-critical, network-centric applications for the Intranet. AlphaBlox Corporation (http://www.alphablox.com) develops, markets and sells reusable re·use tr.v. re·used, re·us·ing, re·us·es To use again, especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing. re·us software building blocks (Blox) which facilitate the rapid assembly of applications for Intranet/Internet-based, enterprise-wide solutions. AlphaBlox is dedicated to enabling its customers and partners to achieve significant improvements in development, deployment, documentation, training and administration of their Intranet/Internet solutions. The company is based in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. . Netscape Communications Corporation (company) Netscape Communications Corporation - (Formlerly "Mosaic Communications Corporation", MCC) A company set up in April 1994 by Dr. James H. Clark and Marc Andreessen <marca@netcom. is a premier provider of open software for linking people and information over enterprise networks and the Internet. The company offers a full line of clients, servers, development tools and commercial applications to create a complete platform for next-generation, live online applications. Traded on 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 under the symbol "NSCP NSCP National Schistosomiasis Control Program NSCP National Space Communications Program NSCP Native (Mode) Service Control Point (Tandem) ," Netscape Communications Corporation is based in Mountain View, California. -0- Note to Editors: AlphaBlox, NetBlox, Blox and the AlphaBlox Corporation logo are trademarks of AlphaBlox Corporation. Netscape, Netscape Communications, Netscape ONE and Netscape Internet Foundation Classes are trademarks of Netscape Communications Corporation. All other product names are trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: AlphaBlox Corp. Michael Skok, 415/526-1700 pr@alphablox.com |
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