Chili!Soft's 'ActiveDave' Allows Applications For Microsoft's Active Server To Run On Other Web Servers For First Time.LANCASTER, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 1997--Chili!Soft announced Monday the upcoming beta release See beta version. of Intranet software that is the functional equivalent of Microsoft's Active Server for non-Microsoft Web Servers. The software, code-named "ActiveDave," enables developers to build robust Intranet applications for non-Microsoft Web Servers using 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. and Components, which means that applications developed for Microsoft's Active Server will be able to run on other web servers. ActiveDave will initially support Netscape's FastTrack and Enterprise servers. ActiveDave gives developers the ability to use Visual InterDev A Windows-based development system from Microsoft for building dynamic Web applications using Microsoft standards. It is used to write Active Server Pages that can interact with databases and ActiveX-based components in the server. -- Microsoft's comprehensive new Intranet application development tool -- to build applications for Netscape's servers. "ActiveDave introduces the power of Active Server function to other web servers," said Charles Crystle, president of Chili (language) CHILI - D.L. Abt. A language for systems programming, based on ALGOL 60 with extensions for structures and type declarations. ["CHILI, An Algorithmic Language for Systems Programming", CHI-1014, Chi Corp, Sep 1975] !Soft. "The beta has tested great running on Netscape's FastTrack and Enterprise Servers. We've built Active Server applications using Visual InterDev and they run on Netscape's servers with no changes to the Active Server Pages." Developers will be able to develop an application once with Visual InterDev and deploy it across a variety of web servers running either ActiveDave or Active Server. "We're pleased to see Chili!Soft developing technologies that support the Active Platform and provide the benefits of Active Server Pages to any NT Web server," said Tod Nielsen Tod Nielsen, formerly of Microsoft, Crossgain, BEA, and Oracle Corporation, is the new Borland CEO (fall 2005). External links
"The adoption of Active Server Pages has been incredible. Now the productivity benefits and development model of Active Server Pages is available to developers working with a variety of NT Web servers." News of Chili!Soft's development of Active Server Pages for Netscape's Servers strikes a positive chord chord, in geometry chord (kôrd), in geometry, straight line segment both end points of which lie on the circumference of a circle or other curve; it is a segment of a secant. A chord passing through the center of a circle is a diameter. with some developers. "One of the great things about Active Server Pages is that VB programmers can jump right in and build apps easily," said Tim Belvin of InfoTech Solutions in Ferndale, Wash. "If they can do that on Netscape's Servers, it'll solve a lot of headaches for managers who can't really use their VB guys effectively on Netscape intranets without re-training." In the near future, Chili!Soft plans to extend ActiveDave's support beyond Netscape's servers. Pricing has not yet been set. For more information, call 717/290-8346 or Email chili@versicom.com . Visit the company's Web site at http://www.versicom.com/chilisoft/ . Chili!Soft'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. , Chili!Reports, dynamically delivers database query results in fully editable, formatted Microsoft Excel (tool) Microsoft Excel - A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world. Latest version: Excel 97, as of 1997-01-14. spreadsheets over the web. The Active Server version can now run on any NSAPI-compliant web server in conjunction with ActiveDave. CONTACT: Chili!Soft Michelle Darrow, 847/291-8422, Ext. 269 mdarrow@hitekpr.com |
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