ICEsoft's ICEreader Integrated into InstallShield MultiPlatform; Software Installation Leader Adopts the Top Java HTML Rendering Tool.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CALGARY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 2004 ICEsoft Technologies Inc., the leading provider of Java browser and Java Web access software, today announced that InstallShield(R) Software Corporation, the acknowledged leader in software installation, packaging and deployment solutions, after an extensive competitive review, has adopted ICEreader(R) for integration with InstallShield MultiPlatform. InstallShield Software provides the de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, system for installing software on over 250 million PCs around the globe. Today, the company continues to enhance that standard, providing independent software vendors, corporate developers and systems administrators with solutions for better managing the full lifecycle of each application, across all major 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. and technologies. InstallShield MultiPlatform is the industry's most powerful and flexible solution for deploying software onto any client or server platform, covering Mac OS X, OS/400, Windows, AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , Solaris, Linux, 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. or any other flavor 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). . "Every day we're setting new standards for building and distributing packaged applications. ICEsoft's 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. rendering software enables us to provide setups that are much more dynamic and appealing," said Bob Doyle, vice president of development at InstallShield. "The ICEsoft technology is 100 percent Java and completely customizable. As an integrated component, the ICEsoft solution lets us render our applications across the entire range of in-field operating environments." InstallShield reviewed all the leading rendering solutions before deciding to standardize on ICEreader. The selection criteria included high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. and performance suitable for a mission-critical environment, a short learning curve for developers, rapid application deployment and integration and 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 to maximize business flexibility. "After studying all our options, it was clear that ICEsoft offered the technical capabilities and support required to help move our business forward," said Doyle. "The implementation of ICEsoft's technology allows us to offer a more tightly integrated solution to our customers." About ICEsoft ICEsoft Technologies Inc. is the world's leading provider of Java browser and Java Web access software for enterprise applications, embedded systems and web services. ICEsoft and its ICEreader(R) and ICEbrowser(R) brands are well known in the JAVA development community with an installed base of more than 10,000,000 units in operation, with customers in over 35 countries. Headquartered in Calgary, Canada, ICEsoft is on the Web at www.icesoft.com ICEsoft, ICEreader-SDK, ICEbrowser, and ICEbrowserSDK are registered trademarks of ICEsoft Technologies, Inc. All other company and product names may be the subject of intellectual property rights reserved by third parties. |
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