Catalog International Announces Next Release of Cat@log; Support For Server Side Scripting Provides Higher Levels of Customization.SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 1998--This week at Internet World in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. International (formerly known as The Vision Factory) will announce details of the next release of their e-commerce software package, Cat@log 3.0. Cat@log is the company's highly productive, open front-end application for creating custom Internet commerce sites that are fully integrated with existing back-end systems. Cat@log 3.0, due to ship in December, offers full integration to server side scripting, including Active Server Pages (World-Wide Web, programming) Active Server Pages - (ASP) A scripting environment for Microsoft Internet Information Server in which you can combine HTML, scripts and reusable ActiveX server components to create dynamic web pages. IIS 4. (ASP asp, popular name for several species of viper, one of which, the European asp (Vipera aspis), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra (Naja haja). ) technology from Microsoft. Support for server side scripting allows developers to deploy highly customized Internet commerce sites with greater speed and ease. Cat@log 3.0's support for the ASP standard provides Web developers crucial front-end customization capabilities for site design, and extends the integration with back-end business systems. Now developers can use Cat@log with industry standards such as VisualBasic and COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. to build highly customized sites with minimal amount of programming. Supporting ASP also allows developers to access the back-end functionality provided by products such as Microsoft's Site Server, which has become a popular server platform for commerce solutions. "The changes we're making to Cat@log let us better address the opportunities of the Internet commerce marketplace," said Mark Hoffman, director of product management at Catalog International. "Catalog International will continue to deliver products and solutions that integrate to existing backend systems with the Internet and embrace the technologies and standards adopted by the market." Cat@log is a highly productive, open front-end application for creating custom Internet commerce sites. Cat@log enables creation of a storefront, shopping basket and transaction services by accessing existing product and customer databases, wrapping the tables and fields with commerce objects and controls, and then fine-tuning the presentation with standard HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. commands. Catalog International, located in Scotts Valley, is a privately-held company established in 1995 to serve the emerging Internet commerce marketplace. The company develops and markets software and services for professionals designing and operating high-volume Internet-based commerce sites. Cat@log, the company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , sets the standard for creating and maintaining sophisticated Web-based catalogs, supporting thousands of items and dynamically updating pages to reflect relevant database changes. The company has formed strategic alliances with leading technology companies including Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, CyberCash, Taxware, 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) , and Pandesic LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . For more information contact the company at 831/461-2100 or visit their Web site at http://www.catalogint.com/. Note to Editors: Cat@log is a trademark of Catalog International. All other company or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective owners. |
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