Artisoft, Aventail, BMC, Interse', NEC, Open Market, and Platinum Become Members of Stardust WinSock Labs; Internet Vendors to Further Interoperability of WinSock Standard.CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 1996--Stardust Technologies Inc., an independent technology testing and consulting center for Windows Internet software developers, today announced that Artisoft (Nasdaq: ASFT ASFT Airport Surface Friction Tester ), BMC Software (Nasdaq: BMCS BMCS Bristol Muslim Cultural Society (UK) BMCS Senior Chief Boatswain's Mate (Naval Rating) BMCS Blue Mountains Conservation Society (Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia) ), Interse', NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : NIPNY), Open Market (Nasdaq: OMKT), and Platinum Technology (Nasdaq: PLAT) have joined as members of the Stardust star·dust n. 1. A dreamlike, romantic, or uncritical sense of well-being. 2. A cluster of stars too distant to be seen individually, resembling a dimly luminous cloud of dust. Not in scientific use. 3. WinSock Labs. As members, the companies will work with Stardust engineers to perform rigorous WinSock interoperability testing on pre-release versions of their Internet software products. The Stardust WinSock Labs are managed by Martin Hall, Stardust's Chief Technology Officer and one of the creators of the WinSock API. Mr. Hall is also the founding and present chairman of the WinSock Group, the loosely structured industry coalition that in 1993 created the widely adopted WinSock 1.1 API specification. The WinSock API Internet-enables Windows software applications by allowing them to communicate using the TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. protocol. "We're extremely pleased to welcome Artisoft, Aventail, BMC (BMC Software, Inc., Houston, TX, www.bmc.com) A leading supplier of software that supports and improves the availability, performance, and recovery of applications in complex computing environments. , Interse', NEC, Open Market, and Platinum Technologies as valued members of the Stardust WinSock Labs," said Martin Hall. "Their commitment to WinSock will help ensure that present and future generations of Internet applications provide the transparent communications interoperability that IS managers and end-users have come to expect from WinSock." Stardust WinSock Labs Membership Continues to Grow Artisoft Aventail BMC Software Cisco Systems CompuServe Frontier Technologies FTP Software(a) Intel Corporation Interse' Mercury Interactive Microsoft MillenNet NEC NETCOM NETCOM Network Enterprise Technology Command (US Army) NetCom Network Command (information systems) (a) NetManage Novell(a) Open Market Persoft Platinum Technologies PointCast Powersoft Quarterdeck (Quarterdeck Corporation, Marina del Rey, CA) A pioneering software company, founded in 1983, that offered a variety of utilities, diagnostics, connectivity and Internet products for the PC and Macintosh. SST SST: see airplane. SunSoft(a) SurfWatch Virgin Interactive Entertainment Worlds Inc. WRQ (WRQ, Inc., Seattle, WA, www.wrq.com) A software company that specialized in terminal emulation and NT-Unix integration products. Founded in 1981 as Walker Richer and Quinn, Inc., a consulting firm in minicomputer and mainframe applications, it introduced an HP terminal emulator for the (a) (a) denotes sponsor, the highest level of membership NetManage "The Stardust WinSock Labs provide an indispensable service to the developers of Internet applications," said Karen Milne, president and co-founder of Stardust Technologies. "We've created a secure lab environment staffed by the leading independent experts on WinSock. Internet software developers - many of whom are competitors - can come together and confidently cooperate on the interoperability issues that are so important to the end-user community." New Members Speak out about WinSock and The Stardust WinSock Labs Artisoft "We joined the Stardust WinSock Labs to ensure that the growing number of WinSock applications are compatible with our best-selling Lantastic network operating system An operating system that is designed for network use. Normally, it is a complete operating system with file, task and job management; however, with some earlier products, it was a separate component that ran under the OS; for example, LAN Server required OS/2, and LANtastic required DOS. ," said Olivier Zitoun, senior vice president and general manager of Artisoft's Network Products Group, based in Tucson, AZ. "Stardust's services, which include interoperability testing events, workshops, training and bakeoffs, will assist our ongoing Internet-related product development efforts and speed our time-to-market." Aventail "We're developing a family of Internet Access Management and Security products which allow network administrators to provide managed and secure Internet access to their users," said Evan Kaplan, president of Aventail Corporation, based in Seattle, WA. "Our software utilizes the SOCKS security protocol, which is tightly integrated and dependent upon the WinSock API. Our membership in the Stardust WinSock Labs will help ensure that our software supports the greatest number of WinSock-enabled clients and servers." Interse' "Interse' provides its customer base with the benefit of having Interse' market focus (TM) web analysis software products interoperate with other WinSock applications," said Terry Meyerson, Interse' president. "By working closely with Stardust, we ensure our products take full advantage of WinSock capabilities." NEC "We plan to support all major versions of WinSock clients with our SocksPlus firewall software," said Zen Kishimoto, director of NEC Technologies' Internet Business Unit. "It's essential that these clients work seamlessly with our server, and we're relying on Stardust Labs to provide independent testing services to ensure the interoperability of our software." Open Market "As a leading vendor of Internet commerce software, our desktop products provide full support for WinSock," said Chris Hanna, engineering director of desktop products for OpenMarket, based in Cambridge, MA. "We see Stardust's specialized services as a vital extension to our own development efforts because they free us to focus on what we do best." Platinum Technology "In developing the Windows client for our Apriori GT help desk automation software, we found that our customers were running many more TCP/IP stacks than we had anticipated," said Randy Weber, quality assurance manager at Platinum. "Working closely with the Stardust WinSock Labs, we were able to quickly test Apriori for compatibility with dozens of TCP/IP stacks. It would have been prohibitively expensive and time-consuming for us to attempt to develop the same level of expertise in-house. We're extremely pleased with the value we have received as a member of the Stardust WinSock Labs." Founded in 1995, the Stardust WinSock Labs provide comprehensive support and services to developers and implementors of the Windows Sockets API. The company is located at 1901 S. Bascom Ave., Suite 333, Campbell, Calif., 95008 and can be reached by phone at (408) 879-8080 and by fax at (408) 879-8081. The company's Web address is http://www.stardust.com. CONTACT: Stardust Technologies, Inc. Marty Bickford, 408/879-8080 martinb@stardust.com or Dovetail dovetail (dov´tāl), n a widened or fanned-out portion of a prepared cavity, usually established deliberately to increase the retention and resistance form. Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Mark Coker, 408/395-3600 dovetailpr@aol.com |
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