Antares Alliance Group Selects Summit Software as Premier Support Agent for Microsoft VBA Licensing Agreement.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 1997--VBITS New EdgeworX(TM) Release Candidate 3.0 Features Full Integration of VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) A subset of Visual Basic that provides a common language for customizing Microsoft applications. VBA supports COM, which allows a VBA script to invoke internal functions within Excel, Word and other COM-based programs or to make use of Antares Alliance Group and Summit Software Company today announced an agreement that names Summit as the marketing and technical support partner for Antares Alliance's licensing of Microsoft's (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 : MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Under the agreement, Summit will provide support to Antares Alliance for EdgeworX, the first object-oriented Web development and execution framework based on Microsoft's DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model) Formerly Network OLE, it is Microsoft's technology for distributed objects. DCOM is based on COM, Microsoft's component software architecture, which defines the object interfaces. and VBA. In addition, Antares Alliance Group today announced significant enhancements to today's EdgeworX release. Release Candidate 3.0 includes complete integration of VBA and the ability for developers to more easily execute and store newly created user-defined objects. Release Candidate 3.0 can be accessed from the EdgeworX Web site at www.edgesite.com . Through use of Summit's premier support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services , Antares Alliance will be able to tap Summit's long experience in supporting embedded BASIC scripting engines and development environments. Antares Alliance will also leverage Summit's co-marketing programs with Microsoft to maximize exposure of EdgeworX to key audiences. With the integration of VBA, EdgeworX becomes a customizable Web development framework immediately accessible to the three million developers using Visual Basic. "Through our partnership with Summit Software, we will be the first VBA licensee to provide Visual Basic developers with a powerful, yet easy-to-use framework for delivering dynamic Web applications," said Olivier Thierry, vice president and general manager of Antares Alliance Group's Internet Line of Business. "In a short time, Summit has established themselves as the premier licensing agent of VBA due to their experience developing, marketing and supporting their own BasicScript SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). product." "We are excited to partner with Antares Alliance Group and provide our comprehensive services to the EdgeworX marketing and development teams," said Bill Fisher William Fisher (born 23 October 1928 in New York City) is an American journalist and retired manager of development programmes. He is a regular contributor to the news agency Inter Press Service, for which he mainly covers issues of human rights, foreign policy, international , president of Summit Software. "Our extensive experience in the BasicScript area is keenly aligned with the VBA integration process, allowing us to greatly improve EdgeworX's time to market in advance of the competition. We are committed to Antares Alliance to reach this goal." "Antares Alliance Group has quickly established itself as one of our most aggressive VBA licensing partners, and is leading the charge with VBA integration into its EdgeworX product," said Tom Button, director of the development tools division at Microsoft. "We strongly support Antares Alliance Group's VBA initiative and see EdgeworX as a tool that will greatly improve productivity across corporate enterprises." EdgeworX: A Framework for Building Dynamic Web Applications Microsoft's VBA is integrated directly into EdgeworX's development and execution environments allowing Visual Basic developers to leverage their existing skill sets to build powerful Web applications. EdgeworX's object-oriented execution engine implements Web applications dynamically as a collection of runtime DCOM objects. This unique server-side implementation enables Web applications to be executed as persistent objects capable of generating straight 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. or incorporating client-side component connectivity. For a single execution engine/single development machine, the Developer Edition Kit will have commercial availability in early April. The EdgeworX Workgroup Series will be available in the second quarter. EdgeworX is a standards-based framework that allows developers to quickly build and deploy highly-interactive Web applications. At the heart of the EdgeworX framework is EdgeCOM, a class library of DCOM objects representing the basic components of a Web application. The EdgeworX developer focuses on defining the application structure and the properties of the individual objects rather than on writing HTML and 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. . EdgeworX incorporates cross-functionality with Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities. , ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. data access and dozens of other applications from Microsoft and third party software vendors via ActiveX technology. Summit Software Company Summit Software Company develops, markets, and supports BASIC language scripting engines and development tools. Founded in 1991, Summit is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation based in Jamesville, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (a suburb of Syracuse). Summit's customers include more than one hundred twenty ISVs who have licensed the company's BasicScript technology. Summit has also captured more than 70 percent of the VBA licensee market to date. Summit offers a wide range of VBA-related services, including integration support, design services, and an innovative MFC- derived framework for easy integration of VBA into an MFC application See MFC. . In addition, Summit offers complementary "plug-in" technologies to VBA licensees. Antares Alliance Group Antares Alliance Group, a global software company formed by equity partners Amdahl Corporation and EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , develops and markets a unique suite of highly-scalable software solutions to help individual developers and organizations build and execute object-oriented Web applications and enterprise-level client/server applications. Antares Alliance, founded in 1993, has operations in 20 countries. -0- Note to Editors: Antares, Antares Alliance and EdgeworX are trademarks of Antares Alliance Group. Microsoft, Visual Basic, ActiveX and Windows are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners CONTACT: Antares Alliance Group Barbara C. Morrow (972) 447-5717 bmorrow@aag.com or FitzGerald Communications Inc. Caryn Converse (617) 494-9500 cconverse@fitzcomm.com or Summit Sofware Kim Romocki (315) 445-9000 kim@summsoft.com |
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