Asymetrix teams with leading-edge strategic partners to provide innovative tools for Intranet applications.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 1997-- - SuperCede Verb 1. supercede - take the place or move into the position of; "Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"; "the computer has supplanted the slide rule"; "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school" will leverage "best of breed" Internet and Intranet technologies, enabling the development of enterprise-wide Java applications - Asymetrix Corporation, developer of the recently acclaimed SuperCede Java Edition, today announced that it has entered into strategic partnership agreements with leading Java and Active X technology vendors to enable the development of enterprise-wide Intranet and Internet applications. The announcement was made at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center on the opening day of Software Development West, in a mid-day media conference featuring presentations by many companies from Asymetrix's new high-powered line-up of leading-edge Internet tools strategic partners: -- 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. Systems Laboratory, represented by Kevin Payne This article is about the professional boxer. For the soccer executive, see Kevin Payne (soccer). Kevin Payne (born January 12 1972, in Evansville, IN, died March 19 2006 in Evansville IN) was a professional boxer. , Senior Manager, Marketing Group. NEC is announcing the availability of SuperCede for the Japanese market. -- Visigenic, represented by 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. Roger Sippl, who said that his company, a leading developer of database applications and Internet-based distributed application An application made up of distinct components running in separate runtime environments, usually on different platforms connected via a network. Typical distributed applications middleware, will merge its JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) A programming interface that lets Java applications access a database via the SQL language. Since Java interpreters (Java Virtual Machines) are available for all major client platforms, this allows a platform-independent database and CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global (TM) technologies with Asymetrix's SuperCede product line. -- TV Objects President Andy Goren, developer of software for migrating Visual Basic applications to Java, revealed that TV Objects has established an exclusive relationship with Asymetrix to incorporate its unique Java Applet A Java program that is downloaded from the server and run from the browser. The Java Virtual Machine built into the browser is interpreting the instructions. Contrast with Java application. Designer(TM) line into the SuperCede product line. -- Starbase, which Chairman and CEO William R. Stow III said is teaming up with Asymetrix to provide a unified integrated team development environment. Integrated configuration management and version control is critical to the acceptance of Java within the enterprise. Other members of Asymetrix's newly announced strategic team include ODI, Intersolv, JGL JGL Generic Collection Library for Java JGL Java Generic Library , KL Group, MindQ, Netscape, ProtoView, Rogue Wave rogue wave n. An unpredictable, abnormally large wave that occurs on a seemingly random basis in the oceans. , Shafir Inc., Toshiba, and Stingray stingray: see ray. stingray or whip-tailed ray Any of various species (family Dasyatidae) of rays noted for their slender, whiplike tail with barbed, usually venomous spines. Software. All of the new technologies leveraged by the Asymetrix partnerships will be incorporated into SuperCede products this spring, 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. Shabbir Dahod, Vice President and General Manager of Development Tools for Asymetrix Corporation. "We at Asymetrix believe that the best point solutions for the emerging Java technologies will emerge not from trying to build entire solutions with in-house reservoirs of talents and technologies, as some companies are attempting to do, but as the result of the development of partnerships with companies offering expertise which complements our own technology and goals," said Dahod. "In assembling our line-up of strategic partners, we have looked for the right partners and the best software. By leveraging on the expertise of these hand-picked partners, we can bring the benefits of the extraordinary new SuperCede Java environment to end-users who are looking to the Internet tools marketplace for solutions," he added. Since its launch in January 1997, SuperCede Java Edition has been earning raves from product reviewers and users. Peter Coffee, PC Week reviewer, reported that SuperCede execution is "the fastest tested by PC Week Labs," and Rick Grehan of BYTE Magazine wrote, "SuperCede lives up to its name." Accolades pouring in from end-users include the comments of corporate software developer Dr. Warren David Warren Will David (born June 29, 1952) a third-generation Arab American of Lebanese and Syrian heritage, a community leader and public relations advocate in the Detroit Arab American community for more than 25 years. A dedicated curator of Arab culture, Mr. Moore, Ph.D., who said, "SuperCede is all that was promised and more! On-the-fly debugging is a fantastic feature of the product. SuperCede has more than met my expectations!" And software engineer Jeremy Rosenberg wrote in Javology, "The only thing this developer has to say is `Wow!'" SuperCede Java Edition has been shipping since January, and has an approximate street price of $99. More than 30,000 copies of the 15-day free trial version of SuperCede Java have been downloaded to date from the Asymetrix Web site at http://www.asymetrix.com . Two new SuperCede products -- SuperCede Database Edition and SuperCede Java/ActiveX Edition -- will be launched in April 1997. For more information about the "fastest Java on the planet," call 800/448-6543 (North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. only) or 206/462-0501, or visit the SuperCede Web site at http://www.supercede.com . About Asymetrix Corporation Asymetrix Corporation is a leading developer of easy-to-use Internet authoring and development tools for distributed learning, Web publishing, and business critical applications. The company also produces easy-to-use digital media content creation. Asymetrix products include Asymetrix Digital Video Producer, Asymetrix 3D F/X F/X Effects , Asymetrix Web 3D, Asymetrix Web Publisher, ToolBook II, and SuperCede. Asymetrix, a privately held software company based in Bellevue, Washington, markets to customers and clients around the world including leading corporate, government, and educational institutions. Asymetrix Corporation, 110-110th Avenue NE, Bellevue, WA, 98004-5840. -0-
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