NetManage and Macromedia Announce Shockwave Multimedia Plug-in for 5 Million Users of NetManage WebSurfer Intranet Browser; Software Licensing and Marketing Agreement Announced by Industry Leaders.CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 1996--NetManage, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :NETM) and Macromedia announced today immediate availability of the popular Shockwave multimedia web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. plug-in working with NetManage's WebSurfer web browser. The two companies also disclosed that they have signed a software licensing and cooperative marketing agreement which allows NetManage to bundle Shockwave with the NetManage Chameleon family of Windows and Macintosh Intranet software, and that Macromedia has been licensed to distribute NetManage's new WebSurfer 5.0 web browser with Macromedia Director. "This agreement allows NetManage to bring multimedia capability to NetManage's installed base of over 5 million corporate Intranet users who are building company-wide-webs to publish and disseminate information internal to the organization," said Bob Williams This article is about the rugby player. For the college basketball coach, see Bob Williams (basketball coach). For the baseball player, see . Bob Williams was an Australian rugby league player for the Eastern Suburbs club. , NetManage Vice President of Business Development. "Important corporate applications such as training are moving to a Web-based model and the Intranet is the ideal communications medium. By bundling the Shockwave plug-in with WebSurfer, we insure that our Chameleon suite of software applications continues to deliver the greatest breadth and depth of advanced TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. networking functionality." "We are pleased to be working with an industry leader like NetManage, who has long been a champion of 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 on the Internet. We have been impressed with their seamless support for our Shockwave plug-in -- they are currently the only other vendor besides Netscape to provide such a capability. "Macromedia is committed to working with all the major browser vendors to promote the adoption of Shockwave as a multimedia standard in the Industry," said Bud Colligan, President & 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 Macromedia. "Nearly a million Shockwave plug-ins have already been downloaded by users eager to experience multi-media on the Internet." About Shockwave for Director Until recently, World Wide Web pages have been limited to text and static graphics. Small sound and video files were downloaded and played with shareware. With Macromedia's Shockwave for Director, NetManage's corporate users will now be able to experience multimedia in a Web page and the dynamic effect of multimedia documents. Because the Director multimedia playback engine is integrated into NetManage's WebSurfer browser as a standard plug-in, it is completely transparent to the user. Over 200,000 Macromedia developers can immediately create multimedia art for the World Wide Web using their Windows or Macintosh computers and Director software. This vast pool of creative talent will jump-start multimedia on the corporate Intranet. Advanced Web Applications Using Chameleon Desktop The NetManage WebSurfer browser can be used as a standalone Web navigator or be used with the company's flagship Chameleon Desktop -- which provides a comprehensive set of applications for communicating and sharing information across the corporate Intranet. WebSurfer can act as the universal application launcher within the Chameleon Desktop, allowing users to access Intranet applications such as E-mail, Gopher, News, FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to and Telnet with the click of a button. NetManage has been an innovator in TCP/IP networking since 1990, and Chameleon Desktop is the most widely used suite of Intranet applications is the corporate LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. environment. About WebSurfer WebSurfer supports 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. 3.0 and allows users to view the most advanced Web pages including foreground and background colors and now, multimedia applications. WebSurfer's hierarchical hotlist A listing of the best of something. It typically refers to the most popular Web sites. (World-Wide Web) hotlist - (From hypertext "hot spot") A document on the World-Wide Web or a user's browser configuration file containing hypertext links, often unorganised and allows users to organize favorite URLs into custom folders for the fastest access to Web information. WebSurfer's menu bar provides immediate access to commonly used word processing word processing, use of a computer program or a dedicated hardware and software package to write, edit, format, and print a document. Text is most commonly entered using a keyboard similar to a typewriter's, although handwritten input (see pen-based computer) and , graphics and spreadsheet applications, such as Microsoft Office. WebSurfer incorporates streaming audio and progressive display of images for real-time reading in multimedia. NetManage's WebSurfer also supports VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) A 3D graphics language used on the Web. After downloading a VRML page, its contents can be viewed, rotated and manipulated. Simulated rooms can be "walked into." The VRML viewer is launched from within the Web browser. and the industry's first in-line AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) A Windows multimedia video format from Microsoft. It interleaves standard waveform audio and digital video frames (bitmaps) to provide reduced animation at 15 fps at 160x120x8 resolution. Audio is 11,025Hz, 8-bit samples. video support for viewing videos within the Web page. The free version of WebSurfer available for download on the Internet has no proprietary hooks, timeouts, or hidden reporting mechanisms. Availability The WebSurfer 5.0 browser, with full plug-in support, is available for free download from http://www.netmanage.com. Shockwave for Director is available for free download from http://www.macromedia.com. Both companies will begin bundling each other's software in the next release of their respective products. About Macromedia Macromedia, the leader in digital arts, multimedia and Web publishing software, offers a full range of products for the Windows and Macintosh platforms. The company's flagship products include: FreeHand See Macromedia FreeHand. (TM), Authorware(R), Director(TM), Extreme 3D(TM), SoundEdit 16(TM), Fontographer(TM), Deck II(TM), and Macromedia xRes(TM). Macromedia Director is the most powerful authoring tool for multimedia and the Internet, featuring Shockwave(TM) for Director. For additional information about Macromedia, please visit our World Wide Web site http://www.macromedia.com About NetManage NetManage, Inc. develops, markets and supports an integrated set of TCP/IP based Intranet applications, connectivity software, servers and development tools for Microsoft Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT and Mac OS. NetManage software allows corporations to facilitate communication, sharing of information and collaboration between workgroups using Internet technology. The company's award winning products include Chameleon, Internet Chameleon, ECCO An earlier Windows PIM from NetManage, Inc., Cupertino, CA (www.netmanage.com). ECCO provided a phone book, calendar, to-do list, outlining and notetaking. It was noted for its tightly integrated and sophisticated functions. , Swift, and Xoftware. Ranked by Fortune Magazine in 1995 as the fastest growing public software company in America, NetManage invented WinSock, the standard which makes the Internet possible for Windows desktops. Contact NetManage at http://www.netmanage.com or 408/973-7171. -0- Note to Editors: NetManage and the NetManage logo are registered trademarks of NetManage, Inc. Chameleon, Internet Chameleon, ECCO, Swift and XoftWare are trademarks of NetManage, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: NetManage Donna Loughlin, 408/973-7171 or Macromedia Mary Leong, 415/252-2118 or Schwartz Communications Mike Farber, 617/431-0770 |
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