Chili!Soft Announces General Availability for Chili!Soft Active Server Pages for Linux, Initiates Online Sales Ordering.Business Editors BELLEVUE, Wash--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 2000 Chili!Soft Inc., the market leader in platform-independent 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), today announced the general availability of Chili!Soft(TM) Active Server Pages for Linux. With Chili!Soft Active Server Pages for Linux, users of leading Web development tools, can easily build and maintain dynamic Web applications, using Active Server Pages for live database connectivity and dynamic content, that leverage the rapidly growing installed base of Linux servers. Supported development environments include: Microsoft(R) FrontPage(TM) 2000 and 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. (TM), Allaire Homesite, Macromedia(R) Drumbeat See Drumbeat 2000. (TM), as well as the VBScript and Jscript scripting languages. Over 2000 companies participated in the beta program for Chili!Soft ASP for Linux, helping Chili!Soft port a stable and mature product to a rapidly growing market. At the February LinuxWorld Conference and Expo LinuxWorld Conference and Expo is a conference and trade show that focuses on open source and Linux solutions in the information technology sector. The show is owned and managed by IDG World Expo, a business unit of International Data Group (IDG). , Chili!Soft ASP for Linux was awarded Best of Show in the Internet/Intranet/Extranet category. "Our announcement at LinuxWorld brought an enormous response from companies wanting to purchase Chili!Soft ASP for Linux," said Bryan Grummon, Chili!Soft's president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Due to a broad and active dialogue with our beta testers and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partners, such as Cobalt, we are able to move rapidly into the Linux market with a very stable, high performance product." ISPs (Internet Service Providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. ) and Application Service Providers are running thousands of Web sites on Linux servers today. Since Chili!Soft ASP for Linux provides full support for FrontPage extensions, ISPs can now offer the almost 10 million FrontPage users a complete solution on Linux. Developers using Active Server Pages can now deploy their applications to the Linux hosting environment while Linux developers have the option to use the newest and fastest development tools and technologies. "Chili!Soft ASP is the only solution we could find to meet the requirement of using the Linux operating system in conjunction with a high-powered, rapid application development (RAD) environment for our Web-based applications," said Andreas Hohl, president of Comtelligence, an Internet business solutions and applications provider in Anaheim, California. "It is easy to use, installed within half an hour, and performs extremely well." Cobalt Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:COBT), the leading provider of Linux-based server appliances, will be the first server appliance vendor to offer a complete turnkey Active Server Pages solution for Linux. The company has worked closely with Chili!Soft to integrate Chili!Soft ASP for Linux with its Cobalt RaQ 3 server appliance. "The introduction of Chili!Soft ASP for Linux has increased the breadth of tools available for Linux Web development, creating an influx of new applications and developers to the platform," said Kelly Herrell, Vice President of Marketing, Cobalt Networks, Inc. "The inclusion of Chili!Soft ASP on the RaQ 3 will allow Cobalt to deliver a complete, turnkey solution that will open up opportunities for service providers to expand their customer offerings with the ability to provide real-time data, personalization of Web sites and other services that require ASP technology." Product Availability Chili!Soft ASP for Linux retails for $995 per server with a four 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. maximum and is available March 8, 2000. Customers purchasing between now and March 31, 2000 will receive a special introductory price of $495. Chili!Soft ASP for Linux may now be purchased online at http://www.chilisoft.com/securesales/. The product is available online or on CD, and evaluation copies can be downloaded from http://www.chilisoft.com/downloads/. This first release of Chili!Soft ASP for Linux is available for the Apache Web server See Apache. on Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1] Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. 6.0 and 6.1. About Chili!Soft Active Server Pages Chili!Soft ASP enables Active Server Pages on leading Web servers and operating systems, making it the first Web application platform based on the ASP framework running in multiple runtime environments. Chili!Soft ASP is supported by industry leading Web development tools, such as Microsoft Visual InterDev(TM) and FrontPage(TM), Allaire HomeSite(TM), Macromedia Drumbeat(TM), and NetObjects ScriptBuilder(TM). Chili!Soft ASP is compatible with a broad range of databases including those from Computer Associates(R), 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) , Informix(R), Microsoft, Oracle(R), and Sybase. About Chili!Soft Chili!Soft, Inc. is a privately held, pioneer provider of enabling technologies and applications for Active Server Pages. Chili!Soft's award-winning flagship product, Chili!Soft ASP, extends the ASP framework to major Web servers and operating systems including Microsoft Windows NT, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , Hewlett-Packard HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , and Linux. The company currently has partnerships with Cobalt, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Netscape, and Sun Microsystems. Chili!Soft was incorporated in 1997 with headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. For more information about the company, visit the Chili!Soft Web site at http://www.chilisoft.com or call 425/957-1122. (c) 1999 Chili!Soft and Chili!Soft ASP are trademarks of Chili!Soft, Inc. Cobalt Networks, Cobalt Qube and Cobalt RaQ are trademarks of Cobalt Networks, Inc. All other products mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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