Forte Software Announces Value-Added Reseller Program; Forte Application Environment Continues to Gain Market Momentum.OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 1995--Forte Software today announced details of its value-added reseller A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. (VAR) program for the Forte application environment. Forte simplifies the development and deployment of open, distributed mission-critical software applications. Forte VARs use the Forte environment to develop applications that will be sold to their customers. Using Forte, VARs build applications that are transparently portable across multiple GUIs, relational databases (RDBMSs), hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. and networks. In addition, Fortes application partitioning Separating an application into components that run on multiple servers. Programming languages and development systems that support this architecture, known as "three-tier client/server," may allow the program to be developed as a whole and then separated into pieces later. provides VARs with several strategies for scaling applications to their target customer's environment. As part of a major initiative to develop relationships with VARs, Forte Software licenses In computing, software that is copyrighted and licensed under a software license is done under a variety of licensing schemes. For end-users there are proprietary licenses and there are free software licenses, and there are proprietary Within these schemes are further classifications. VARs to use the Forte development environment on all platforms and provides training and technical support. Under the Forte VAR program, Forte also incents VARs to get applications into production as soon as possible and eliminates potential conflicts between the customer, the VAR and the vendor. "We chose Forte because its architecture means our multi-location customers can deploy business objects to take advantage of different computing environments at each of their sites," said Debbie Day, manager of application products for C Star Systems, Inc., a consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a and application developer based in Chicago. "We conducted an in-depth evaluation of six, second-generation enterprise development tools -- seeking multi-platform support, support for an n-tier architecture See n-tier. and an architecture which supports deployment platforms being selected at the last possible moment before system generation. Only Forte met all our criteria," she said. "Public utility companies, like Consolidated Edison This article is about the utility company in New York. For ComEd in Illinois, see Commonwealth Edison. Consolidated Edison, Inc. NYSE: ED is one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the United States. and PG&E, work around the clock. Forte's support for automatic failure recovery allows us to deliver 24-hour, seven-day-a-week reliability without writing additional code," said Bert Brehm, vice president of Unified Information, Inc. which specializes in applications for the electric utilities industry. He continued, "The pre-Forte version of our client application software required custom code in each client to recover from server failures. With Forte service objects, failures are now transparent to the client applications." "Building and maintaining enterprise applications can be an incredibly complex process," said David St. Clair, 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. of MEDecision, Inc., a Forte VAR in Berwyn, PA specializing in cost containment cost containment, n the features of a dental benefits program or of the administration of the program designed to reduce or eliminate certain charges to the plan. applications for the managed healthcare industry. "In the past, we've been forced to literally `weave' together a solution for our customers using multiple tools from multiple vendors. Now, we rely on Forte for supporting every stage of developing, deploying and managing an application for a customer." "The Forte VAR program is designed to facilitate the success of both Forte and Forte VARs," said Marty Sprinzen, president and CEO of Forte Software. "The VAR program complements our direct sales operations, international distribution and systems integration programs to provide each type of customer with a powerful client/server solution for their enterprise-wide applications." The Forte Application Environment Information systems organizations use the award-winning Forte application environment to exponentially increase productivity by increasing the speed of application development, improving the quality of the completed applications, and enabling reliable operations in heterogeneous distributed computing environments See DCE. Distributed Computing Environment - (DCE) An architecture consisting of standard programming interfaces, conventions and server functionalities (e.g. naming, distributed file system, remote procedure call) for distributing applications transparently across networks . Forte allows organizations to easily build applications for such mission-critical functions as customer service, with hundreds or thousands of on-line users. Forte Software, Inc. Forte Software, Inc., headquartered in Oakland, Calif., develops and markets the Forte application environment, the first software designed to simplify the complexities of development and deployment of open distributed applications. The company is privately-held, with more than $30 million in funding from venture capital backers and strategic partners throughout the world, including Apple Computer, Data General, Digital Equipment, 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) , Mitsubishi and Sequent Computer Systems. For additional information contact Forte Software in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. at (510) 869-3400 and in the United Kingdom at (44) 1344-482100. -0- Note to Editors: Forte Software is a trademark of Forte Software, Inc. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Forte Software Rich Scheffer, 510/869-3422 or Phase Two Strategies Beth Johnson, 415/772-8419 Internet 6130697@mcimail.com |
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