Chili!Soft Announces General Availability of Chili!Soft ASP for HP UX 11.0; Partnership Allows Active Server Pages To Be Deployed on the New HP 9000 A400 and A500 UNIX Servers.Business Editors/Technology Writers BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 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 that Chili!Soft ASP v 3.04 is available on the 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. 11 operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. . The Chili!Soft ASP for HP-UX 11 release coincides with the launch of Hewlett-Packard Company's entry-level HP 9000 A-Class server line, aimed at service providers, Internet start-ups and enterprises that want to utilize Chili!Soft ASP technology to reduce time-to-market when creating and deploying e-business applications. Chili!Soft ASP enables web applications to be built using leading web development tools such as Microsoft FrontPage Microsoft FrontPage (later full name Microsoft Office FrontPage) was a WYSIWYG HTML editor and web site administration tool from Microsoft for the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. It was part of Microsoft Office application suite from 1997 to 2003. 2000, and then deployed on HP 9000 A-Class servers. "Around 10 million copies of Front Page 2000 are being used by individuals and small to mid-size businesses to create ASP web applications," said Bryan Grummon, President of Chili!Soft. "5 million Microsoft developers and over 30 rapid development tools are driving the demand for Service Providers to host mission-critical ASP web applications. Chili!Soft ASP allows them to do it on the rackable HP 9000 A-Class servers." "Chili!Soft ASP's support of market-leading development tools and diverse IT staffing environments leverages the powerful performance of HP 9000 A-Class servers at an entry-level price," said Mark Hudson, worldwide marketing director for HP's Business Critical Computing Business Unit. "This makes them extremely well-suited for Service Providers and dot.com customers in need of quick time-to-profit solutions." "The Chili!Soft and HP alliance makes a great deal of sense because it provides customers with a cost-effective and quick way to bring business critical applications to the web," said John Sheaffer, President of Sysix Technologies, a leading provider of rapid value IT business solutions that include infrastructure technologies from market leaders such as Chili!Soft and HP. "Organizations can create web applications utilizing existing NT development tools and then deploy them to the powerful, robust 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). environment that HP-UX provides." Product Availability Chili!Soft ASP for HP-UX 11 is available online or on CD, and evaluation copies can be downloaded from http://www.chilisoft.com/downloads/default.asp. 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 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!Soft ASP, extends the ASP framework to major Web servers and 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. including Microsoft Windows NT, Sun Solaris, 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) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , HP-UX, and Linux. The company currently has partnerships with Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM, Microsoft, Netscape, and Sun Microsystems. Chili!Soft was incorporated in 1997 with headquarters in Bellevue, Wash. In March 2000, Cobalt Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:COBT) announced its intent to purchase the company. Cobalt Networks expects the purchase to close in the quarter, subject to customary closing conditions. For more information about the company, visit the Chili!Soft Web site at http://www.chilisoft.com or call 888/290-8346. (c) 2000 Chili!Soft and Chili!Soft ASP are trademarks of Chili!Soft, Inc. 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