Chili!Soft Announces Chili!ASP for UNIX; Upstart Company Enables Cross-Platform Active Server Pages for Building and Deploying Enterprise Web Applications.BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 1998--Chili!Soft, the only provider of cross-platform ASP -- the mainstream web application platform, today announced Beta availability of the Chili!ASP web application server for Solaris(TM). Previously available only on Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. , Chili!ASP now offers the power of 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) to enterprise UNIX-based environments, enabling development and deployment of true cross-platform web-based applications. "ASP has helped take the Web from a simple document publishing platform into a dynamic environment for deploying cross-platform, mission-critical business applications," stated Charles Crystle, Chief Technical Officer of Chili!Soft. "While other solutions are still struggling to come through on promises of being high performance and truly cross-platform, ASP has been embraced by hundreds of commercial software houses and thousands of developers in just 18 months, because of its simplicity, openness, power, and broad appeal. ASP is quickly becoming the mainstream Web application platform." Why Chili!ASP? IT faces 3 critical problems today: scarcity and cost of development resources, time to market of applications (internal or external), and support for heterogeneous computing environments. This is compounded by the urgency and growth of the Web and, therefore, web applications. Cross-platform ASP, through Chili!ASP, is the only solution that solves all three of these problems. Chili!ASP is a compelling web application environment with support for rapid application development tools, easy database connectivity, and a component-based framework to create sophisticated, mission-critical enterprise applications. Web developers can use ASP supported scripting languages, such as JScript or VBScript, and many powerful RAD tools, including Microsoft's Visual InterDev, Elemental's Drumbeat See Drumbeat 2000. , and Sybase's PowerSite, to build their web applications using the Active Sever Pages framework. Developers can also use their standard programming languages, such as Java, C++, Delphi, or Visual Basic, to build re-usable objects for sophisticated functions. "Corporate managers can now apply all of their existing development resources to the same web application project regardless of available skillsets," said Crystle. "Managers know how difficult it is to find C++ or Java programmers and how expensive it is to provide extensive training for their current staff. Chili!ASP really helps in the biggest cost in creating applications - people." Chili!ASP will appeal to corporations and government agencies searching for the most effective cross-platform web applications, and to commercial software houses already familiar with ASP in the NT world wanting to expand their markets. Chili!ASP provides absolute code portability; ASP applications can be dragged and dropped between UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and NT servers, providing true cross-platform applications. "Most enterprises are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a combination of high performance, cross-platform compatibility, and an open development environment in their web-based applications," added Crystle. "With the release of Chili!ASP for Solaris, no other application platform but The ASP Platform offers this in the NT/UNIX world." Availability Chili!ASP on UNIX will be initially available for Netscape Enterprise Server A Web server from Netscape that runs under NT, Solaris and HP-UX. It supports JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology, Java servlets and Server-Side JavaScript (SSJS). It was superseded by iPlanet Web Server and renamed again in 2002 as Sun ONE Web Server. running on the Solaris 2.5 UNIX platform. Now available in beta, production is scheduled for early summer. Other UNIX versions are also slated for release this year. Pricing for Chili!ASP on UNIX is $7000 for the first CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. per server and $6000 thereafter. Chili!ASP is currently available for Netscape's FastTrack and Enterprise Servers on Windows 95, NT 3.51, NT 4.0, and UNIX, Lotus Domino Server on Windows 95, NT 3.51 and NT 4, and 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) ICS (1) (Internet Connection Sharing) A Windows feature that enables two or more computers to share one Internet connection. First introduced in Windows 98 Second Edition, sharing is accomplished with network address translation (NAT), which is the common method. (Internet Connection Server) for Windows NT. For more information, contact Chili!Soft at 425/957-1122, or visit them on the Web at http://www.chilisoft.com. About Chili!Soft Chili!Soft is a leading provider of enabling technologies and applications for Internet-based enterprise systems. Chili!Soft's products are Chili!ASP, which enables Active Server Page See ASP. applications across heterogeneous computing environments such as NT and UNIX on multiple web servers, and Chili!Reports, a robust enterprise reporting system that puts database information into an Excel spreadsheet on a web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . The Bellevue, Washington company is privately-held, with funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California with affiliate offices in more than 30 cities around the world and over $4.5 billion in capital commitments. , a leader in the start-up venture capital business.
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