Basis Technology Unveils Encoding and Language Identifier; Verity Selects Euclid to Identify Multilingual Data.Business/Technology Editors Software Development East WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 2000 Basis Technology (www.basistech.com), the world's leading provider of globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation services and technology, today announced Euclid, the encoding and language identifier, at Software Development East (Booth #101). Verity, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : VRTY) has adopted Euclid to effectively handle incoming data from sources worldwide. "The Internet increasingly brings together text and data from sources all over the world, but these inputs are often represented in unrecognizable formats," said Carl Hoffman, 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 Basis Technology. "Euclid enables companies and web sites to quickly and easily determine the origins of information from outside sources so that it can be properly handled." Euclid is a high-performance engine that determines the language and data encoding of text from unknown sources. It automatically identifies language/encoding pairs, including European and Asian languages and encodings, so unspecified data can be categorized, searched, processed and stored while maintaining the integrity of the data. Euclid allows any application to take a fully automated approach to processing text in any unknown language and encoding. Euclid provides an extremely accurate definition of the text's local encoding, streamlining text processing for search and retrieval services, email applications, and any web-based application See Web application. that receives unidentified text. By taking this process out of the hands of individuals, the run-time speed, accuracy, and cost effectiveness of processing text has been increased dramatically. Another major advantage Euclid provides, when used in conjunction with Basis Technology's Rosette Rosette D’Albert’s pliable, versatile, talented, acknowledged bedmate. [Fr. Lit.: Mademoiselle de Maupin. Magill I, 542–543] See : Courtesanship (language) Rosette - A concurrent object-oriented language from MCC. , is the ability to automatically convert text originating anywhere in the world to Unicode. Unicode is the rapidly emerging standard for global Web computing, and Rosette is the leading Unicode library that enables software developers to quickly add Unicode to their products. Euclid is licensed as royalty-free source code or object code for Win 32, Solaris, IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. , HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , Digital Unix See Tru64 Unix. and Linux x86. Other platforms are available by request. Euclid is currently available, starting at $75,000 for binary and If two conditions are combined by and, they must both be true for the compound condition to be true as well. Likewise, two bits may be combined with and: x y x AND y 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 I.e. $115,000 for source code. Prices listed apply to single product use. For more information, please visit www.basistech.com or email sales@basistech.com. About Basis Technology Basis Technology is the leading provider of internationalization The support for monetary values, time and date for countries around the world. It also embraces the use of native characters and symbols in the different alphabets. See localization, i18n, Unicode and IDN. internationalization - internationalisation technology and services for Internet companies and global enterprises. The company specializes in software re-engineering services for Unicode compliance, and offers a wide range of cross-platform software components that deliver off-the-shelf solutions to problems commonly encountered in internationalization projects. The company's flagship product, Rosette, is the leading cross-platform library for Unicode, the rapidly emerging international standard for software that handles multiple languages. Top-tier Web software publishers, search engines and portals have adopted Rosette as the core of their globalization strategy. Basis Technology is the only Web internationalization company that is also a full member of the Unicode Consortium. Basis Technology's multilingual professionals are veterans of hundreds of software and Web internationalization projects. The company works closely with its customers to maximize the opportunities offered by rapidly expanding global markets. Company headquarters are located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a branch office in Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit www.basistech.com or call 617-386-2000. |
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