Dataware Technologies unveils expanded internet strategy announces new products, services, and customers at Internet world.Technologies, Inc. (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 :DWTI DWTI Dienst voor Wetenschappelijke en Technische Informatie (Belgium) ) today unveils key elements of its expanded Internet strategy, including the immediate shipment of its new NetAnswer products and services targeted at Dataware s key customers -- commercial publishers, corporations, government agencies, educational institutions, and professional firms. "We have designed this strategy with our core information-providing customers in mind," states Kurt Mueller, chairman and chief executive officer of Dataware Technologies. "The explosive growth of the Internet has created significant new opportunities for these customers to make and save money. To help our customers respond to these opportunities, we are implementing an expanded Internet strategy." "Dataware's Internet strategy consists of six key elements, all consistent with our broader mission to be a world leader in software and services for electronic publishers," continues Mueller. 1. Offer a broad and growing set of powerful software products and tailored services to enable electronic publishers to manage and distribute their information anywhere in the world, through any viable electronic media, including the Internet, CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). , online services, LANs, WANs, and any combinations of these media. In support of this strategic objective, we are today announcing immediate availability of our new NetAnswer products and services for commercial Internet publishing (see attached NetAnswer press release). 2. Provide continued support for industry standards, both formal and de facto. We are today announcing support in our NetAnswer products for a wide range of important Internet-related standards, including HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. ; HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. 2.0, 3.0, and extensions; CGI 1.1 and above; and images in GIF GIF in full Graphics Interchange Format Standard computer file format for graphic images. GIF files use data compression to reduce the file size. The original version of the format was developed by CompuServe in 1987. , JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. , and PDF (Adobe Acrobat). The products are compatible with browsers such as Netscape and Spyglass, with free servers such as NCSA (1) (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana-Champaign, IL, www.ncsa.uiuc.edu) A high-performance computing facility located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. and CERN CERN or European Organization for Nuclear Research, nuclear and particle physics research center straddling the French-Swiss border W of Geneva, Switzerland. , and with secure servers such as Netscape Commerce Server and Open Market Secure Web Server (1) A server on the Web that supports one or more of the major security protocols such as SSL, SHTTP and PCT. This means that order form data from your browser is encrypted before being sent (uploaded) to the Web site, making it extremely difficult for a third party to decipher . 3. Offer solutions which will support our customers mixed media strategies, and which will integrate into their existing computing environments. For example, NetAnswer can support mixed media delivery, such as combining Internet and CD-ROM in various ways to meet the diverse needs of customers. NetAnswer runs on a wide range of 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 Microsoft NT server options, and supports standard or custom browsers on multiple platforms (including Windows, Windows 95, Macintosh, and Motif). 4. Work with other leading industry organizations in order to offer a more complete solution to meet customer needs or to capitalize on joint marketing opportunities. For example, in creating the new NetAnswer Internet Hosting Service An Internet hosting service is a service that runs Internet servers, allowing organizations and individuals to serve content to the Internet. There are various levels of service and various kinds of services offered. A common kind of hosting is web hosting. , Dataware has established relationships with equipment suppliers and network services providers. Other potential Internet partners include vendors of browser software, server software, security software and hardware, rating and profiling software and services, multimedia software, creative services, commerce software and services, directory services, and more. 5. Serve customers through multiple channels of distribution, including direct sales to our existing and future information-providing customers, OEM sales to selected customers who require imbedded Dataware software components, and reseller arrangements for certain geographic and vertical market segments. 6. Increase our rate of investment in the Internet marketplace, including expanded product development, sales and marketing, and administrative investments. While we anticipate that the short term impact of these investments may have a negative impact on earnings, we believe that the potential returns can be very substantial in the long run, both financially and in terms of customer satisfaction. Dataware Technologies (NASDAQ:DWTI) is a leading international developer and marketer of software and services for electronic information providers. Dataware s high-performance, multi-platform and multi-lingual software and services enable customers -- including publishers, corporations, government agencies, law firms and universities -- to manage and distribute information on CD ROM, online and the Internet. Today, Dataware software is used by more than 1,700 organizations worldwide. In May 1995, Dataware Technologies was selected one of Inc. Magazine's 100 Fastest-Growing Small Public Companies for the second consecutive year. -0- Dataware is a registered trademark and NetAnswer a trademark owned by Dataware Technologies, Inc. Other product or company names mentioned in this press release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies and are hereby acknowledged. CONTACT: Dataware Technologies Ann Hawkins, 617/621-0820 x1755 ahawkins@dataware.com Home Page: http://www.dataware.com |
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