Chili!Soft Enables Cross-platform Active Server Pages with Chili!ASP for UNIX Beta; Leading ASP Tools Vendors Confirm Support For Cross-Platform ASP.BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 1998--Chili!Soft's Beta availability of Chili!ASP for Sun Solaris(tm) now enables ASP web applications to be developed for both 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 Windows NT and deployed on any server running Chili!ASP. Elemental Software, Microsoft Corporation, and NetObjects added their names to the list of vendors who are expressing support for cross-platform 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. , confirming the growing popularity of ASP as a web application platform. ASP appeals to corporations, government agencies, and other organizations searching for the most effective platform for 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 and NT servers, providing true cross-platform applications. "Corporate IT faces three critical problems today: scarcity of development resources, time to market of applications (internal or external), and support for heterogeneous computing environments," said Charles Crystle, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Chili!Soft. "With the impending im·pend intr.v. im·pend·ed, im·pend·ing, im·pends 1. To be about to occur: Her retirement is impending. 2. release of Chili!ASP for Solaris, The ASP Platform is now the only web application platform effectively addressing all these issues. And with such broad industry support, it is truly the Mainstream Web Application Platform." What Others are Saying "We're pleased to see Chili!Soft make Active Server Pages available on legacy enterprise systems with Chili!ASP," said Morris Beton, General Manager of Developer Relations and Platform Marketing at Microsoft. "Now corporate developers can use Microsoft Visual InterDev(tm) and Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft Visual Studio is Microsoft's flagship software development product for computer programmers. It centers on an integrated development environment which lets programmers create standalone applications, web sites, web applications, and web services that run on any platforms (tm) to build compelling cross-platform web server applications which take advantage of their legacy UNIX systems." "Active Server Pages are rapidly becoming the dominant platform for deploying database-driven Web business applications," said Mike Bergeron, VP of Sales for Elemental Software. "With Chili!Soft and Microsoft, we are extending the ASP platform in two directions: With Chili!ASP, ASP applications run on UNIX and on non-IIS servers. And with Elemental Drumbeat(tm) 2.0, non-programmers, for the first time, can build highly interactive, cross-browser, database-driven sites with Active Server Pages. A trial version of Chili!ASP already ships with Drumbeat." "NetObjects ScriptBuilder 2.0 enables developers to rapidly create compelling web applications using ASP," said Bernard Desarnauts, director of product management at NetObjects. "Since Chili!ASP is now available on UNIX, ScriptBuilder users can deploy ASP applications across the enterprise with no extra coding." About Elemental Software, Inc. Elemental Software develops and markets software that enables users to deliver Web-based business solutions in less time with fewer technical resources. The company's flagship software product, Drumbeat 2.0, is the fastest way to build visually-engaging, database-driven, cross-browser Web sites without the need to write code. Headquartered in Carlsbad, California, Elemental Software is principally funded by venture investors Microsoft Corporation, Accel Partners, CSK Corporation of Japan, JK&B Capital and Sorrento Ventures. For product information, please call 760/931-7171, email info@drumbeat.com, or visit http://www.drumbeat.com. Media should contact Marie Clark, Antenna Group, 415/977-1916, marie@antennapr.com. About NetObjects NetObjects, Inc. is a privately-held company that is funded by 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) , Perseus LLC, AT&T Ventures, Norwest Venture Capital, Venrock Associates, Rae Technology LLC and private investors. NetObjects' partners include Apple Computer (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :AAPL AAPL Apple Computer, Inc. (stock symbol) AAPL American Association of Professional Landmen AAPL American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law AAPL Advance Audiovisual Presentation Limited AAPL Advocates for Arkansas Public Libraries ), AT&T (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :T), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ), Netscape (NASDAQ:NSCP NSCP National Schistosomiasis Control Program NSCP National Space Communications Program NSCP Native (Mode) Service Control Point (Tandem) ), and Sun Microsystems' Javasoft (NASDAQ:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ). The NetObjects product family consists of NetObjects Fusion Personal Edition for entry-level site builders, NetObjects Fusion 3.0 for experienced site builders, NetObjects TeamFusion for site building teams and NetObjects ScriptBuilder(tm) 2.0 for scripting. All the products are the first in their class to integrate automated site building, professional quality design and publishing, thereby lowering the cost, time and tedium of building high-quality Web sites. NetObjects Fusion has won several awards including CNET's 1997 Internet Excellence Award for Best Web Design Product and PC Magazine's Editors Choice award. More information about NetObjects and its products can be found at www.netobjects.com. About Chili!Soft Chili!Soft is a leading provider of enabling technologies and applications for The ASP Platform, the Mainstream Web Application Platform. 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 writes database information into an Excel spreadsheet and delivers it to web browser. 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. For more information, contact Chili!Soft at 425/957-1122, or visit them on the Web at http://www.chilisoft.com. CONTACT: S&S Public Relations Laura Margolis, 847/291-1616 margolis@sspr.com or Chili!Soft, Inc. Mickey Friedman, 425/957-1122 x1551 mickeyf@chilisoft.com http://www.chilisoft.com |
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