Application Service Provider Expands Services to Offer First Total Enterprise Integration Solution.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 14, 1999-- Allegrix Inc., a provider of Web-enabling and application hosting capabilities for UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. , has expanded its services, adding an 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 hosting platform for 3,270 mainframe and legacy applications. The announcement makes Allegrix the first application service provider to offer a complete enterprise integration solution. Bringing an enterprise's mix of new and legacy applications to the desktop through a common `Webtop' interface makes applications more accessible to employees, customers and satellite offices, thus extending the reach of a company's business functions. To facilitate this integration, Allegrix has the ability to modify the character-based interface found with most legacy applications to that of a point-and-click interface familiar with PC users. "The IT landscape at most companies lacks a bridging architecture that can accommodate and integrate the variety of client devices, servers, applications and data being used," 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. Chris Clabaugh, chief executive officer. "Allegrix now embraces all platforms enabling corporations, ISVs and VARs, through Allegrix's national Data Centers, linked via a secure, business-to-business network, to publish their Legacy, UNIX, Windows or NT applications to the Web without a time-consuming and expensive rewrite re·write v. re·wrote , re·writ·ten , re·writ·ing, re·writes v.tr. 1. To write again, especially in a different or improved form; revise. 2. . "Corporations can improve the flow of information to what is now becoming an extremely mobile and diverse workforce while ISVs can offer new ways to install replicated site solutions and broaden their marketplace by introducing software rental programs," he added. With headquarters in Palo Alto, Allegrix is an application service provider (ASP asp, popular name for several species of viper, one of which, the European asp (Vipera aspis), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra (Naja haja). ), providing "Web Enabling" and "Application Hosting" services to businesses worldwide. For further information contact Allegrix Inc., 380 Cambridge Ave.; Palo Alto, Calif. 94306; Phone: 650/325-8785; fax: 650/325-8780; E-mail: leigh@allegrix.com. |
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