Fast Engines and Digital Creations Team for Scalable Web Application Servers; Combination Brings Commercial Reliability to Valuable Open Source Software.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 1999-- Fast Engines, the leader in web server acceleration software, announced today that it has teamed up with Digital Creations, creator of Zope and the leader in Open Source web development, to provide commercial-grade scalability for the Zope web application server. The alliance will dramatically improve the ability of high-volume e-commerce sites to handle peak traffic flows. Because Fast Engines enables load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them across a range of platforms, dynamic applications operating in a cross-platform server environment can function reliably, even at peak times with `flash crowds'. With the agreement, Digital Creations will provide its clients with pre-configured versions of Fast Engine's Fast.Serv product starting January 7, 2000. Fast.Serv is a commercial implementation of the open source FastCGI Protocol for high-performance integration of web servers and web applications. Zope already provides integration with open implementations of FastCGI, but it lacks the high-volume load balancing and cross-platform features of Fast.Serv. "Digital Creations helps companies make their e-commerce sites more robust by fully exploiting the free, open-source Zope platform we developed," says Paul Everitt, 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. of Digital Creations. "With Fast Engines, both the Zope community and Digital Creations customers get a high-quality, high-performance commercial solution for web server integration." Additionally, Digital Creations will resell the new load-balancing version of Fast.Serv with ZEO ZEO Zope Enterprise Objects ZEO Z Education Online (website) ZEO Zero Emissions Operation , the Digital Creations custom solution for applications demanding scalability and failover. "Fast.Serv excels at bringing tremendous performance gains to dynamic applications," added Semyon Dukach, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Fast Engines. "The alliance with Digital Creations and Zope takes us into the future of cross-platform application servers based on open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced ." About Digital Creations Digital Creations is the publisher of Zope and the leader in open source web development. Zope is an open source application server for building high- performance, dynamic web sites. Zope runs on nearly all 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). platforms and Windows NT, and can be used with popular web servers or its own built-in web server. Visit http://www.digicool.com/ for more information, and get Zope free at http://www.zope.org/. About Fast Engines, Inc. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fast Engines is the leader in developing and marketing high performance software for accelerating Web-based applications that generate custom content. Fast Engines is an Akamai (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 : AKAM AKAM Akamai Technologies, Inc. (stock abbreviation) AKAM Automated Key Access Machine ) Alliance Partner, which means that joint customer web sites will benefit from improved download speed, reliability and performance. Fast Engines' Fast.Serv product for Netscape, Apache and Microsoft servers is being used by dozens of high-traffic web sites within Fortune 500 companies including The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, Delta Air Lines, ZDNet, Morgan Stanley, Lockheed Martin, and A.G. Edwards. For more information go to http://www.fastengines.com. |
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