NetDynamics And Visigenic Partner To Deliver IIOP/CORBA To The Enterprise; NetDynamics to Incorporate Visigenic's VisiBroker for Java ORB in Next Generation Products.MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif. and SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 1997--NetDynamicndustry, today announced that NetDynamics has licensed Visigenic's VisiBroker for Java(TM) ORB technology. high-performance Java application server and de v Inter-ORB Protoco l (IIOP (Internet Inter-ORB Protocol) The CORBA message protocol used on a TCP/IP network (Internet, intranet, etc.). CORBA is the industry standard for distributed objects, which allows programs (objects) to be run remotely in a network. ) as well as the ability to deploy robust, standards-based distributed applicatio-standard object interoperability via the IIOP protocol. This fusion of capabilities will allow leading balable Java enterprise applications that integrant in·te·grant adj. Constituting part of a whole; integral. CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global technology in today's distributed buset and Extranet environments," said Bob Macdonald, vice president of marketing at Visigenic. "The addition of IIOP capability to the NetDynamics Application Server NetDynamics Application Server was an integrated software platform. It was developed by NetDynamics Inc., which was bought in 1999 by Sun Microsystems. The application server software, together with the Netscape Application Server was the basis for the later Sun's iPlanet means that customers can extend the power of the NetDynamics enterprise solution with Visigenic's leading distributed object technology." "The Internet has accelerated our customers' desire to see standards established in the industry for distributed object computing, and CORBA and IIOP have clearly emerged as the leading open approach," said Steve Zocchi, vice president of business development for NetDynamics. "By adopting Visigenic's proven implementation of CORBA and IIOP, we commit to our enterprise customers that the NetDynamics platform will continue to play a strategic role in their plans for innovative, Java-based enterprise network applications that integrate their disparate systems and databases to provide a business advantage." NetDynamics offers a comprehensive Java-based solution that enables corporate developers to easily create innovative enterprise network applications that integrate databases, mainframe systems and enterprise solutions such as PeopleSoft and SAP. The company's product family includes a scalable Java application server, a powerful Java RAD tool and WebEXTEND integration modules that complete this extensible enterprise platform. NetDynamics is being used by hundreds of major companies and ISVs around the world to create integrated Intranet, Internet and Extranet applications. Increasingly, entire corporations are standardizing on NetDynamics for all their Web development ranging from Web-enabled human resources systems to business-to-business services to sales force automation Automating the sales activities within an organization. A comprehensive SFA package provides such functions as contact management, note and information sharing, quick proposal and presentation generation, product configurators, calendars and to-do lists. and many others. Customers who have selected NetDynamics to deploy Web-based HR systems include AT&T, Carolina Power & Light, Netscape Communications Corporation (company) Netscape Communications Corporation - (Formlerly "Mosaic Communications Corporation", MCC) A company set up in April 1994 by Dr. James H. Clark and Marc Andreessen <marca@netcom. , U.S. Sprint and other major Fortune 1000 organizations. Visigenic's ORB technology is designed to facilitate the development and deployment of distributed object-based applications that are scaleable, flexible and easily maintainable. VisiBroker allows organizations to leverage existing corporate applications while developing and deploying new distributed applications. VisiBroker for Java and VisiBroker for C++ implement the CORBA 2.0 and IIOP standards developed by the Object Management Group (OMG (1) See Object Management Group. (2) "Oh my God!" See digispeak. OMG - Object Management Group ), and can interoperate with other CORBA 2.0 compliant ORBs in a distributed object computing environment. Visigenic was the first company to release a Java ORB, and the first to support IIOP in its ORB products. About Visigenic Software, Inc. Visigenic is playing a key role in creating the foundation on which new, mission-critical applmbedding Visigenic technology into their productfor Java, VisiBroker for C++ and VisiChannel for JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) A programming interface that lets Java applications access a database via the SQL language. Since Java interpreters (Java Virtual Machines) are available for all major client platforms, this allows a platform-independent database . Additional information about Visigenic may be obtained via the Web at www.visigenic.com . About NetDynamics NetDynamics Inc. is a leading provider of solutions foude Hewlett Packard, Gradient Technologies, Informix, Logic Works, Microsoft, Netscape, Oracle, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, many systems integrators and value added resellers, and others. Based in Menlo Park, CA, the company was founded in 1995 and is funded by ve30--ba/sf* CONTACT: Visigenic Software, Inc. Patrick Kremer, 650/312-5124 pkremer@visigenic.com or JONA Jona, variant of Jonah. Group Tim Wong 415/552-1515 |
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