CONNECT! Quick improves performance of Java applets, now available for free download.SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 9, 1996--CONNECT! CORPORATION, founded in 1993, a premier provider of Java(TM) solutions, Tuesday announced availability of CONNECT! Quick(TM), a performance enhancement solution for the Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. Java(TM) environment. The CONNECT! Quick Client is now available for free download from CONNECT! CORPORATION at http://www.connectcorp.com/quick.html. CONNECT! Quick debuted at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , May 29-31. Due to great interest and feedback from Java developers, Web publishers and Web users, availability of the Quick Client was delayed in order to engineer enhancements into the product that will benefit anyone using the Quick Client, regardless of the web server configuration. The Quick Client immediately improves the performance of any Java applets 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. with the following features. All Java applets are cached in a separate, sophisticated Quick Cache, employing a least used algorithm. The Quick Cache allows users to interactively set web sites or applets as permanent. Quick Client supports the download of a standard uncompressed zip file (1) A file that contains one or more files that have been compressed into the ZIP format. Also called a "ZIP archive," "zipped file" or "zipped archive," the ZIP algorithm is the most popular compression method in use. Not Just the . . A Web publisher can package a Java applet into a zip file, thereby allowing any user with the Quick Client to download the Java applet as a single file, two to five times quicker than the standard download. Web publishers can get a free administration kit, detailing the HTML syntax syntax: see grammar. syntax Arrangement of words in sentences, clauses, and phrases, and the study of the formation of sentences and the relationship of their component parts. , at http://www.connectcorp.com/quickzipadmin.html. When accessing a web server running CONNECT! Quick Server, the Quick Client provides a number of additional features that greatly improve the performance of Java applets, including compressed single file transfer and complete differential versioning. Performance improvement with the Quick Server pushes applet A small application, such as a utility program or limited-function spreadsheet or word processor. Java programs that are run from the browser are always known as applets. See midlet, crapplet and Java applet. startup beyond the two to five times improvement typical with only the Quick Client. The web server and data line will also benefit from reduced load as Java applets are downloaded only when needed and compressed to half the size. Quick Server comes with graphical administration tools and a simple installation. Quick Server can be licensed for $795.00, and comes with a 30 day money back guarantee. Quick Server is available for any web server on Windows95 and NT, Unix platforms will be available shortly. CONNECT! Quick Client 1.0 can be evaluated for free. If the evaluation is for personal or educational use, the evaluation period Evaluation period The time interval over which funds assess a money manager's performance. is unlimited, the evaluation period for all other uses is limited to 60 days. The Quick Client can be licensed for $19.95, which entitles the customer to one year of tech support via the CONNECT! CORPORATION World Wide Web site. Quick Client is available for Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. 2 and 3 on Windows95 and NT. The product is being ported to all operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. that are Java enabled, including Mac and Unix and will support additional Java enabled browsers as they become available. Product information is available on the CONNECT! CORPORATION World Wide Web server at http://www.connectcorp.com/quick.html. Founded in 1993, CONNECT! CORPORATION is a premier provider of Java(TM) solutions. The company offers CONNECT! Enterprise, a suite of applications for enterprise level customer management constructed with Java(TM) and CONNECT! Widgets, the top selling commercial quality library of user interface components for Java(TM). A privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , CONNECT! CORPORATION is based in Scottsdale. More information about CONNECT! CORPORATION is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.connectcorp.com. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: CONNECT!, CONNECT! CORPORATION, CONNECT! Enterprise, CONNECT! Widgets, CONNECT! Quick and the CONNECT! logo are trademarks of CONNECT! CORPORATION. Netscape Navigator is a registered trademark of Netscape Communications Corporation (company) Netscape Communications Corporation - (Formlerly "Mosaic Communications Corporation", MCC) A company set up in April 1994 by Dr. James H. Clark and Marc Andreessen <marca@netcom. . All other product names are trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: CONNECT! CORPORATION, Scottsdale Wayne D. Williams, 602/483-6636 Email: wayne.williams@connectcorp.com |
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