AppForge and Odyssey Software's ViaXML Deliver Palm OS Applications Requiring Universal Mobile and Wireless Enterprise Data Access.Business Editors ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2001 Odyssey Software Odyssey Software was a computer game developer founded in 1987 in Eastham, Massachusetts by Art V. Cestaro III. The company produced games for the Amiga and the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). and AppForge, Inc. today delivered ViaXML(TM) for Palm OS(R) with support for AppForge(TM), enabling Microsoft(R) Visual Basic(R) developers to build applications that directly access enterprise data from Palm Powered(TM) handheld computers via open standard XML-based mobile web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. technology. IT Professionals have been asked to deliver on the promise of wireless and mobility - improved business processes that enhance productivity and decision-making through better access to enterprise information. Mobile application developers face a challenge - finding products available to enable these powerful mobile enterprise applications to be built, distributed, and managed for the direct business benefit that enterprises demand. Together Odyssey Software and AppForge deliver the ideal application development environment and enterprise data access infrastructure required to quickly and effectively deliver on that promise: line of business mobile applications with solid return on investment. The combined expertise of AppForge and Odyssey Software avoids the pitfalls of indirect access to enterprise data, and delivers architectural choice to millions of experienced Visual Basic developers, so that technology does not dictate how a mobile application must be built, or how mobile workers should work. There are many mobile and wireless application architectures in the market, which may be broadly classified as: proprietary platforms for content trans-coding; thin client; and declarative de·clar·a·tive adj. 1. Serving to declare or state. 2. Of, relating to, or being an element or construction used to make a statement: a declarative sentence. n. synchronization - which have not met the need. Rich client applications - which can operate in both fully connected and occasionally connected scenarios - may be built using ViaXML with AppForge, allowing developers to choose the right approach, even blending and designing new architecture options such as application-controlled synchronization to optimize the mobile experience. These applications can operate over virtually any IP-based network, including Wireless LAN A local area network that transmits over the air typically in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz unlicensed frequency band. It does not require line of sight between sender and receiver. Wireless base stations (access points) are wired to an Ethernet network and transmit a radio frequency over an area , CDPD (Cellular Digital Packet Data) A low-speed, digital, wireless data network that is an enhancement to an existing analog cellular network. Based on IBM's CelluPlan II, CDPD provides a packet overlay onto the AMPS network and moves data at 19. , GSM, Palm.Net(R), and GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. Wireless WAN, as well as direct connection - so that workers can maximize their productivity and quality of decision-making while mobile. "The combination of the AppForge development environment with ViaXML enterprise data access infrastructure has the potential to transform the way developers build mobile enterprise applications for the Palm OS platform", said Todd Bradley, executive vice president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. for Palm, Inc. "There are over five million Visual Basic developers who can now transform existing corporate web infrastructure into mobile application servers that deliver immediate highly scalable interactive access to enterprise knowledge from Palm Powered handheld computers. Interfaces can now easily happen with data managed by SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. , Oracle, Sybase, and DB/2 and business logic managed by corporate applications such as SAP/R3, Siebel, Baan, and PeopleSoft." "The combination of ViaXML with the AppForge development environment improves significantly the ability of developers to create mobile enterprise applications, said Doug Armstrong, chief executive officer at AppForge. Odyssey Software pioneered direct enterprise data access to mobile PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). devices in 1998, and is now the first to deliver mobile web services technology to the market so that Visual Basic developers can immediately build mobile applications for a broad range of markets - the market is clamoring for a strong solution to the Palm OS enterprise integration question and Odyssey Software has delivered a most effective solution." "AppForge Inc. has transformed the Palm Developer community, and using ViaXML from within AppForge allows Visual Basic developers to immediately become Palm OS platform enterprise developers - without hosting proprietary software servers that demand you open your firewall for anything more than a web server," said Mark Gentile, president and 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 Odyssey Software. "With ViaXML we have embraced open Internet standards and leverage investments that companies have made in Internet architectures and infrastructure, while revolutionizing the ways in which mobile and wireless technologies can be effectively used." AppForge and ViaXML for the Palm OS platform, Pocket PC, and Windows CE are available immediately. Free thirty-day evaluation licenses for ViaXML and AppForge are available from http://www.odysseysoftware.com/ or www.appforge.com and further information - as well as deployment licenses - is available from info@odysseysoftware.com and info@appforge.com About AppForge, Inc. Established in 1999, AppForge, Inc. is the first and only company to allow Microsoft Visual Basic programmers to easily and quickly create sophisticated applications for handheld, mobile and embedded devices. The company's founding team has developed strategically important embedded software and hardware solutions for multi-national companies in the wireless space for more than 16 years. For more information on AppForge call (678) 686-9000; e-mail info@appforge.com; or visit the company's Web site at www.appforge.com. About Odyssey Software Odyssey Software, Inc. is a leading provider of mobile and wireless application data access infrastructure, which extends the enterprise across the Internet or corporate Intranet to the palm of your hand. Developers can quickly build and deploy rich mobile applications using the core Windows DNA technologies - as well as open Internet standards such as XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , HTTP, HTTPS (1) (HyperText Transport Protocol Secure) The protocol for accessing a secure Web server. Using HTTPS in the URL instead of HTTP directs the message to a secure port number rather than the default Web port number of 80. - with real-time, online, interactive access or application-controlled synchronization with centralized data and business logic over any wireless LAN or WAN, wired or dial-up connection. Odyssey's software tools and infrastructure are used for real-time wireless, mobile, and landline enterprise computing by AT&T; BP Oil; Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Daimler-Chrysler, 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. ; ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network ; General Electric; Glaxo Wellcome; Johnson & Johnson; Kellogg's Foods; MasterCard; Microsoft Corporation; The 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 Times; Northrop Grumman; Pfizer; Pitney-Bowes, The United States Air Force United States Air Force (USAF) Major component of the U.S. military organization, with primary responsibility for air warfare, air defense, and military space research. It also provides air services in coordination with the other military branches. U.S. , and many other companies. For more information about building effective mobile enterprise applications, please contact Odyssey Software at 716-214-2409 (Ext. 201), info@odysseysoftware.com, or visit the company's Web site at www.odysseysoftware.com Palm OS and Palm.Net are registered trademarks and Palm and Palm Powered are trademarks of Palm, Inc. or its subsidiaries. |
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