Brightline Technology Demos Portal Server for IBM Lotus Domino at Lotusphere 2004.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Lotusphere 2004 ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 2004 Brightline Technology(TM) today provided attendees at Lotusphere 2004 with a preview of its Brightline Portal Server (1) A network server that deploys portal services to a public Web site or internal intranet. See portal. (2) An application that is used to develop, deliver and maintain a Web portal. - Enterprise Edition, a full enterprise portal See corporate portal. server integrated with the current IBM Lotus Domino Lotus Domino is an IBM server product that provides enterprise-grade e-mail, collaboration capabilities, and custom application platform. Domino began life as Lotus Notes Server, the server component of Lotus Development Corporation's client-server messaging technology. (R) infrastructure and targeted at small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) of 1,000 employees or less. Built on Brightline's newly-released Brightline Application Server - Enterprise Edition (see: Brightline Technology(TM) Delivers First Fully Integrated Java(TM) Application Server...for IBM Lotus Domino 1/26/04), Brightline plans to offer the portal server together with a wide array of ready-to-use, open source portlet A small window on a portal page. Portlet technology allows a portal page to be customized more quickly either internally by the development team or by the end user. Portlet technology can come as an adjunct to a portal server or as optional interfaces to ERP applications. applications, making it easy for Domino customers, as well as 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) Lotus Business Partners to begin using standard portlets, and customize, administer and secure them from within the Domino infrastructure. Shipment of the Brightline Portal Server - Enterprise Edition is expected in mid-2004. "With both our new Brightline Application Server shipping today and the Brightline Portal Server under development, we're providing the ability to run and administer J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. (TM) applications and portlets, as well as Notes/Domino applications, on the same infrastructure," said Jim Wilson There are a number of notable people named Jim Wilson. These include:
Wilson added that many smaller organizations do not have the time or resources to adopt new products or replace infrastructure, such as the security, directory, administration and applications already provided by IBM's market-leading Domino platform. Lower-cost portal software Portal Software was founded in 1985 as Portal Information Network, one of the first ISPs in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded by John Little. The company offered its own interface through modem access that featured Internet email. such as Brightline's Portal Server provides SMBs with a way to take advantage of a major technology trend - easier and more affordable deployment of web-based portals as a key way to provide partners, employees and customers with an integrated view of applications, information and business processes. Packaged portlets, such as Brightline's ease the process of creating and deploying portlet applications, while open-source solutions ensure that portlets can be customized, distributed and sold by partner communities. The Brightline Portal Server will ship with a variety of open-sourced portlets, such as calendaring and scheduling, discussion groups, mail client, document and image libraries and collaborative web pages. Portal single-sign-on is authenticated by Domino, while portal groups and roles are managed by Domino group associations, making it easy to manage access to web-based portlet applications from within the familiar Domino administration environment. Brightline is demonstrating both the Brightline Portal Server- Enterprise Edition and the newly released Brightline Application Server - Enterprise Edition at Lotusphere Partner Pavilion #407-408. Pricing for the Portal Server will be announced at a later date. The Brightline Application Server is a full Java application A Java program that is run stand alone. The Java Virtual Machine in the client or server is interpreting the instructions. Contrast with Java applet. See servlet. server integrated with the current IBM Lotus Domino infrastructure and is available now for $2,500 USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. directly from Brightline Technology at www.brightline.com. About Brightline Technology Brightline Technology (www.brightline.com) delivers high-quality, cost-conscious Java application and portal server products that leverage customers' current Lotus Notes/Domino investments. Privately held and based in Portsmouth, N.H., the company was founded in 1995. Brightline is a trademark of Brightline Technology, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Java and J2EE are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. IBM, Lotus, Lotusphere, Notes and Domino are registered trademarks of IBM Corporation in the United States, other countries or both. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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