Bluestone announces support for FastCGI.MT. LAUREL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 1996--Bluestone Inc., a leader in advanced application development, Wednesday announced support for the new FastCGI standard for web application development. FastCGI is a fast, open and secure extension to existing web servers that solves the performance problems inherent in first generation CGI CGI in full Common Gateway Interface. Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program. . Furthermore, FastCGI avoids the overhead and complexity of proprietary API extensions to Web Servers. 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. Sapphire/Web was tested with beta versions of FastCGI, and will be supporting this new standard. During Beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the , Bluestone found that FastCGI was of similar speed to API approaches from Netscape and Microsoft. Bob Bickel, director of products at Bluestone, stated, "Our customers are excited about this latest version of CGI technology. FastCGI provides the advantage of CGI's open, robust architecture while it eliminates the performance concerns that Netscape and Microsoft have been focusing on." Bickel continued, "Sapphire/Web will support the standards that emerge and we may still support the API approaches as they become more stable. Our customers have been concerned about issues of language dependencies, no process isolation and the proprietary approach of API's. "The idea of a bug in user code being added via an API to a web server and bringing down the entire web server is similar to a Windows 3.1 GPF (1) (General Protection Fault) The name given to a crash in Windows, starting with Windows 3.1. See crash in Windows. (2) (Gpf) (GUI Programming Facility) An OS/2 application generator originally from GPF Systems, Inc. -- and not something our customers can afford to live with on a server platform." FastCGI performance has been measured at near static web page See static HTML. speeds. For example a 20KByte static file would take 25 milliseconds as compared to 28 milliseconds with FastCGI. This is inclusive as measured from the client perspective. FastCGI not only delivers high performance, but also has features such as language independence, compatibility with CGI, process isolation and support for distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. . FastCGI will likely become the next standard for web applications -- and Bluestone Sapphire/Web will support this new standard. For more information on Bluestone and Sapphire/Web, call 609/727-4600. Bluestone is located at 1000 Briggs Road, Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054. URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. :http://www.bluestone.com. e-mail:info@bluestone.com CONTACT: Bluestone Inc., Mt. Laurel Jeffrey Whitney, 609/727-4600 ext. 1960 by The Garfield Group, Trenton Brigitte Davis, 609/396-0946 ext. 15 |
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