Appistry Positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant in Enterprise Application Servers Magic Quadrant.Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute ST. LOUIS -- Appistry, the pioneer and leading provider of application fabric software, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries Quadrant in the 2Q2008 Enterprise Application Servers Magic Quadrant The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a proprietary research tool developed by Gartner Inc., a US based research and advisory firm. It is designed to provide an unbiased qualitative analysis of a “markets’ direction, maturity, and participants. report.1 "In my opinion, Gartner's positioning of Appistry in the visionaries quadrant serves as further proof that technologies like Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric (EAF EAF - Effort Adjustment Factor ) are steadily gaining industry momentum by helping companies more effectively address sizeable increases in data volume for larger audiences," said Kevin Haar, 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 Appistry. "I believe this also reinforces the benefits we bring to the developers in our Open Distribution program - they are able to take full advantage of our commercially supported product for free!" Appistry's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. - Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric (EAF) helps companies meet the challenge of developing and deploying today's Internet-scale applications. Appistry EAF is a grid-based application platform that makes it very easy to scale-out CPU- and data-intensive applications across a virtualized grid of commodity servers. Unlike traditional grid products based on legacy scheduler technology, Appistry EAF's robust "fabric" architecture has no single point of failure and is well suited for extreme transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. (XTP (Xpress Transfer Protocol) A research transport protocol designed by Greg Chesson of SGI. Designed for high-speed networks, it provides services at layers 3 and 4 of the OSI model. ), software-as-a-service (SaaS), cloud computing (1) Running applications in or from network servers. Computing "in the cloud" may refer to a company's own network, but often refers to the Internet and the use of Web browser-based or rich client applications. , and other data- and CPU-intensive applications. Vendors were evaluated on their ability to execute, which included an evaluation of the vendor's product/service, overall viability, sales execution and pricing, among other criteria, and the completeness of vision, which included market understanding, marketing strategy and sales strategy, among other criteria. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Gartner report, "Most of the vendors in the Visionaries quadrant are relatively small innovators, invested in excelling with a highly differentiated variation of an EAS (Electronic Article Surveillance) A security system for preventing theft in retail stores that uses disposable label tags or reusable hard tags attached to the merchandise. offering, usually at the expense of a lesser breadth of the total offering when compared with established, comprehensive products. Some vendors are attempting to introduce a radically new approach to the market, while others are addressing some limitations of mainstream options." 1) Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers, 2Q08" by Yefim V. Natis et al, April 24, 2008 About Appistry Appistry's flagship product, Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric, dramatically simplifies the process of developing, deploying and managing highly scalable and reliable applications. With Appistry EAF, data- and CPU-intensive software developed using technologies like Java, Spring, .NET or C/C C/C Center to Center C/C Combustion Chamber C/C Command/Control C/C Crew Chief C/C cabin cruiser (US DoD) C/C chief complaint (medical) C/C Channel-to-Channel C/C Communication and Collaboration ++ can be easily scaled-out across a virtualized "grid" of inexpensive servers. As a result, Appistry customers such as FedEx, Northrop Grumman and GeoEye are able to quickly and inexpensively bring new capabilities to market with the agility, scale and reliability demanded by their businesses. To download the free Appistry EAF Community Edition, visit www.appistry.com/go/community-edition. For more information, visit www.appistry.com, or call 888-APP-0111 (888-277-0111). Appistry and the Appistry logo are trademarks of Appistry, Inc. All other registered and unregistered trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners. About the Magic Quadrant (Disclaimer Required) The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted April, 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability mer·chant·a·ble adj. Suitable for buying and selling; marketable. mer  chant·a·bil or
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