ICEsoft Closes 2003 with Ten Million Units Deployed; Customer Preference Grows for ICEsoft Java Platforms to Solve Web Java Client Challenges.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CALGARY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2004 ICEsoft Technologies Inc., the leading provider of Java browser and Java Web access software, today announced that it closed 2003 with 10,000,000 units of ICEsoft products installed with customers. A broad base of companies is turning to ICEsoft technology as the client-side solution for their Java-based enterprise applications and web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. . ICEsoft technology solved web-client problems for companies from a wide range of vertical markets in 2003. Two customer applications where ICEsoft saw particular adoption were retail/point of sale (POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale ) terminals and network management software. Both 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) and Triversity chose to bundle ICEbrowser(R) into their POS terminals. Together with Java WebStart, this small footprint application demanded centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. code management and web-client control for a consistent and reliable end-user experience. ICEbrowser allowed each to incorporate online web-based rendering features to further differentiate their POS terminals. In the area of network management, both Cisco and Nokia solved challenges with heterogeneous computing environments and the support of legacy Microsoft Internet Explorer See Internet Explorer. content by incorporating ICEreader(R) into the client side of their applications. Both Cisco and Nokia cited the growing increase in client-side heterogeneity led by Linux penetration and projections for non-desktop devices as further reasons for adopting "future proofed" Java client solutions. "Our customers keep reporting similar challenges," said Rod Charko, ICEsoft vice president of marketing. "With the increasing acceptance of the Internet as a delivery tool to reach customer, partners and employees, enterprise IT departments are required to support an expanding variety of end-user client environments and 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. . With a customizable browser toolkit, ICEsoft's Java technology is being universally adopted to address this issue as well as control the integrity of the client GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. and end-user experience." During the past quarter, ICEsoft saw increasing acceptance from key vertical markets including IT, IDE/software tools, retail, health care, financial and military/aerospace. Cisco, BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. , The Gap, PharmaPartners, TD Bank, Boeing and NASA/MER are a few of the organizations that invested in ICEsoft software in 2003. About ICEsoft ICEsoft Technologies Inc. is the world's leading provider of Java browser and Java Web access software for enterprise applications, embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. and Web services. ICEsoft and its ICEreader and ICEbrowser brands are well known in the JAVA development community. Headquartered in Calgary, Canada, ICEsoft has customers in over 35 countries and is on the Web at www.icesoft.com. ICEsoft, ICEreader, and ICEbrowser 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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