Bluestone and Visigenic Partner to Deliver IIOP Capabilities to the Enterprise; Bluestone Licenses Visigenic's VisiBroker for Java ORB for Sapphire/Web 4.0.MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. and SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 1997--Bluestone Software, Inc., a leader in Web application development and deployment solutions, and Visigenic Software, 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 :VSGN), the leading supplier of object request broker See ORB. (programming) Object Request Broker - (ORB) Part of the OMG CORBA specification, an ORB's basic function is to pass method invocation requests to the correct objects and return the results to the caller. (ORB) technology to the computer industry, today announced that Bluestone bluestone, common name for the blue, crystalline heptahydrate of cupric sulfate called chalcanthite, a minor ore of copper. It also refers to a fine-grained, light to dark colored blue-gray sandstone. has licensed Visigenic's VisiBroker for Java(TM) ORB technology in order to provide support for 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 (Common Object Request Broker Architecture (standard, programming) Common Object Request Broker Architecture - (CORBA) An Object Management Group specification which provides a standard messaging interface between distributed objects. The original CORBA specification (1. ) and CORBA's Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (protocol, standard) Internet Inter-ORB Protocol - (IIOP) A protocol which will be mandatory for all CORBA 2.0 compliant platforms. The initial phase of the project is to build an infrastructure consisting of: an IIOP to HTTP gateway which allows CORBA clients to access WWW (IIOP (Internet Inter-ORB Protocol) The CORBA message protocol used on a TCP/IP network (Internet, intranet, etc.). CORBA is the industry standard for distributed objects, which allows programs (objects) to be run remotely in a network. ) in Bluestone's Sapphire/Web 4.0. By integrating Visigenic's VisiBroker ORB with Sapphire/Web 4.0, Bluestone offers its developers the ability to develop and deploy robust, standards-based Java applications across the Web. With the integration of CORBA technology, Bluestone has incorporated the ability to redeploy re·de·ploy tr.v. re·de·ployed, re·de·ploy·ing, re·de·ploys 1. To move (military forces) from one combat zone to another. 2. existing Sapphire/Web applications via IIOP with a simple "flip of a switch." This provides customers with complete investment protection of their existing middleware applications by not requiring them to rearchitect their environment. Sapphire/Web 4.0 enables leading businesses to transparently access the benefits of Visigenic's Java middleware as they use the Bluestone platform to deliver scalable enterprise-class Java applications that bridge the gap between Web and client/server systems. In fact, benchmark testing has shown a performance increase of as much as 10 to 1 over traditional http middleware. "We are pleased that Bluestone has selected the VisiBroker ORB for Java to deliver IIOP capability to Sapphire/Web," said Bob Macdonald, vice president of marketing at Visigenic. "Bluestone's unique `flip of a switch' approach brings the immediate benefits of IIOP deployment within reach of every Bluestone customer. This allows developers to take advantage of the rapidly emerging CORBA technology standard for business transactions over the Internet." "Bundling Visigenic's ORB with Sapphire/Web 4.0 delivers on the `write once, deploy anywhere' promise of Java," said Bob Bickel, senior VP and COO, Bluestone Software. "While Sapphire/Web 4.0 supports multiple middleware solutions, the VisiBroker ORB is the first to be bundled with Sapphire/Web and has been available since the release of Sapphire/Web 4.0 on August 1, 1997. "By bundling Visigenic's proven implementation of CORBA and IIOP, we have committed to our enterprise customers that the Bluestone platform will continue to play a strategic role in their plans for innovative, Java-based enterprise network applications that connect the Web to existing client/server systems." About Sapphire/Web 4.0 Sapphire/Web bridges the gap between client/server and Web tools, providing the missing pieces needed to develop highly scaleable enterprise-class Java applications -- platform independence, 100% Pure Java and Java custom coding, middleware for scalability, portability, and manageability, database transaction processing with built-in support for Oracle, Informix, Sybase, SQL Server, DB2. Sapphire/Web applications are robust, highly portable, scalable and easily distributed. A complete development environment supports a range of languages, including Java, 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 ++, JavaScript and VBScript. Sapphire/Web provides dynamic load balancing and dynamic server swapping for high availability. Applications are delivered with no-run time costs. Sapphire/Web's visual IDE enhances developer productivity and delivers robust deployment and management features. It is a comprehensive environment for building enterprise Internet/intranet/extranet applications. About VisiBroker ORB Visigenic's ORB technology is designed to facilitate the development and deployment of distributed object-based applications that are scaleable, flexible and easily maintainable. VisiBroker allows organizations to leverage existing corporate applications while developing and deploying new distributed applications. VisiBroker for Java and VisiBroker for C++ implement the CORBA 2.0 and IIOP standards developed by the Object Management Group (OMG (1) See Object Management Group. (2) "Oh my God!" See digispeak. OMG - Object Management Group ), and can interoperate with other CORBA 2.0 compliant ORBs in a distributed object computing environment. Visigenic was the first company to release a Java ORB, and the first to support IIOP in its ORB products. About Bluestone Software, Inc. Named to Inc. Magazine's annual list of the 500 fastest growing private companies in the U.S. for the past three years, Bluestone has renamed itself Bluestone Software, Inc. (BSI BSI - British Standards Institute ). The cornerstone of BSI's offerings is its award-winning Sapphire/Web, a leading Java-and Web-to-database development solution. BSI has formed strategic partnerships with leading software companies such as Oracle, Microsoft, Netscape, Sun Microsystems, Informix, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Open Market and others. More than 50 percent of Fortune 500 companies use Bluestone Software products. Major accounts include: Dreyfus, Eli Lilly, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. , Reliance National, Thomson Consumer Electronics, and Time Inc. Bluestone Software, Inc. is located at 1000 Briggs Road, Mount Laurel, N.J. 08054, phone 609/727-4600, fax 609/727-5077, and can be found at http://www.bluestone.com on the World Wide Web. About Visigenic Software, Inc. Visigenic is playing a key role in creating the foundation on which new, mission-critical applications are being developed -- the open, distributed, object-based architecture for the new global enterprise. Building on its expertise in standards-based distributed object and data access technologies, Visigenic has become the leading supplier of ORB technology to the computer industry. Companies embedding Visigenic technology into their products and/or product architectures include Oracle, Hitachi, Netscape, Novell, Sybase, Borland, Gemstone gemstone Any of various minerals prized for beauty, durability, and rarity. A few noncrystalline materials of organic origin (e.g., pearl, red coral, and amber) also are classified as gemstones. , Silicon Graphics, Cincom and Business Objects. Visigenic products include VisiBroker for Java, VisiBroker for C++ and VisiChannel for 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 . Recently, VisiBroker won DBMS (DataBase Management System) Software that controls the organization, storage, retrieval, security and integrity of data in a database. It accepts requests from the application and instructs the operating system to transfer the appropriate data. Magazine's 1997 Readers' Choice Award for best Object Request Broker. Additionally, Visigenic was identified by IDC, an independent market research firm, as the fastest growing object middleware vendor in their "Middleware: 1997 Worldwide Markets and Trends" report. Additional information about Visigenic may be obtained via the Web at http://www.visigenic.com . -0- Note to Editors: Visigenic is a registered trademark and VisiChannel for JDBC and VisiBroker are trademarks of Visigenic Software, Inc. Bluestone and Sapphire/Web are registered trademarks of Bluestone Software, Inc. Java and JDBC are registered trademarks of Sun MicroSystems. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Visigenic Software, Inc. Patrick Kremer, 650/312-5124 pkremer@visigenic.com or Bluestone Software, Inc. Anastasia Bullinger, 609/727-4600 ext. 1001 ab@bluestone.com or The Horn Group, Inc. Bill Cox, 650/579-6449 bcox@horngroup.com or The Garfield Group Kerry Osborne/Steve Goodman, 609/396-0946 ext. 35 kosborne@garfieldgroup.com or sgoodman@garfieldgroup.com |
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