Insession Joins SilverStream Partner Program to Provide Application Server/Transaction Processing Integration.BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 1998--Insession Inc. Tuesday announced that it has partnered with SilverStream to enable customers to integrate multiple legacy transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. (TP) environments with their Web applications. TransFuse trans·fuse v. To administer a transfusion of or to. trans·fus  a·ble adj. component technology supports interoperability between distributed application An application made up of distinct components running in separate runtime environments, usually on different platforms connected via a network. Typical distributed applications server solutions and numerous TP environments including 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) CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without , IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem.(2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. , and MQ Series, Tandem Pathway, and BEA Tuxedo A TP monitor from BEA Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (www.beasys.com) that runs on a variety of Unix-based computers. Originally developed by AT&T and sold as source code, Novell acquired it, enhanced it and offered it as shrink-wrapped software for various Unix servers. . Through CICS, Insession supports the Distributed Program Link Application Programming Interface (API), LU 6.2 Two Phase Commit interface, and TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. applications, instead of the IBM EPI/ECI APIs. This has been done in order to fully support transaction integrity, a key attribute of the TransFuse implementation. "We are very pleased to now support SilverStream with TransFuse," said Mark Hutchens, chief executive officer of Insession. "SilverStream has put together partnerships with many of the leading middleware providers and the addition of TransFuse ensures that SilverStream will be able to address the broadest mix of customer deployment issues." TransFuse will support users of SilverStream's Application Server as they create new business applications spanning multiple instances of CICS as well as multiple instances of TP monitors. With the additional support for both IMS and Pathway, users can deploy the SilverStream Application Server into networks where such legacy applications continue to run. "TransFuse now gives us access to more TP environments as well as providing the support for Two Phase commit -- something extremely important to the financial and retail world and to the world of e-commerce," said Bill Critch, SilverStream's director of alliance marketing. "A large proportion of these communities still rely on combinations of large IBM and Tandem mainframes to do the bulk of their mission-critical transaction processing." About SilverStream SilverStream Software Inc., is the pioneering developer of the SilverStream Application Server, the industry's most comprehensive application server with unmatched integrated development tools, a high-performance server and complete Web functionality. Without compromise, SilverStream empowers users to design secure, enterprise-level, three-tier Intra/Inter/Extranet applications for deployment in Java and 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. -- providing the highest levels of application functionality with an optimized, appropriate weight client. SilverStream uniquely combines traditional transaction processing features with newer Web functionality such as content management, dynamic publishing, communications, collaboration and agent-based push technology. For more information, go to www.silverstream.com. About Insession Insession, based in Boulder, develops, sells and supports software products in the enterprise application server and networking marketplace. It specializes in both distributed and large-scale computing environments, particularly those involved with Internet access to traditional mainframe computers. The company provides software products that enable access, interoperability and integration of new technologies, such as those associated with the Internet, with existing systems and their content as represented by large IBM, Tandem and 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). computers. Insession has strategic partnerships with a number of companies including Active Software, Destiny Software, Inprise Corp., NetDynamics, Netscape, Sybase, Tibco and Unify. In addition, Insession is an OrbixWise partner of Iona and an Alliance partner of Tandem. Additional information about Insession can be obtained at www.insession.com. |
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