Object Power's OPenscape Bridges the Gap Between the Enterprise and the Web; Breakthrough technology for graphical development in Netscape with secure access to enterprise applications and data.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 1995--Object Power (www.opower.com) today announced OPenscape software technology that allows developers to use a point-and-click tool to build Web pages that securely access enterprise servers. OPenscape leverages desktop tools such as OLE custom controls (programming) OLE custom controls - (OCX) An Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) custom control allowing infinite extension of the Microsoft Access control set. OCX is similar in purpose to VBX used in Visual Basic. (OCXs) to build Web components that can communicate with high-performance enterprise servers in a Defense Encryption System-based (DES) secure environment. OPenscape components are fully compatible with OLE and may be dragged and dropped from Netscape into any OLE-enabled desktop environment. The Company will be looking to form relationships with other vendors to bring OPenscape technology to market. "Hewlett-Packard views business to business intra-enterprise communications as one of the major opportunities on the Internet," said Jan Silverman, Director of the Internet Solutions Group for Hewlett-Packard. "Object Power's OPenscape is excellent technology for achieving these objectives. We will be exploring ways in which we can bring these capabilities to market." OPenscape v1.0 beta is a free product downloadable from Object Power's Web site (www.opower.com). It enables developers to build interactive, graphical Web pages with an easy-to-use, point-and-click tool and a Visual Basic-compatible programming language. Today, most Web pages are built with the character-based Hyper-text Mark-up Language (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. ). OPenscape v1.0 greatly reduces the time and complexity involved in developing web pages for Netscape. OPenscape Pro, available in January 1996, will expand on the capabilities of OPenscape v1.0. It will allow Web pages to access the Netscape Application Programming Interface (API), external Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs), OLE servers and OCXs. These interfaces provide two-way communication Two-way communication is a form of transmission in which both parties involved transmit information. Common forms of two-way communication are:
OPenscape Enterprise Edition, also available in January 1996, will add functionality to OPenscape Pro by enabling users to build servers that securely access corporate data on client/server legacy systems. Enterprise Edition servers will include the capability to connect to leading relational databases such as Oracle, Sybase, Informix and DB/2 -- legacy systems such as 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 and 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. -- gateways such as EDA/SQL -- and major 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. monitors such as Tuxedo and Encina A Unix-based TP monitor from Transarc Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA that is layered over OSF's Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). IBM acquired Transarc in 1994 and based its CICS/6000 TP monitor on Encina. . With Enterprise Edition, corporate data and business functionality servers that are protected by DES encryption and full Kerberos security will be accessible via Netscape. Enterprise Edition servers can be created in all major languages including C, C++, Cobol and Perl. These servers will have access to a complete management environment for such tasks as server monitoring and load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them . Running on all major platforms, including Windows, Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. , Windows '95 and most versions 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). , the Enterprise Edition will be available to the first 200 customers at an introductory price of $9,500. The price thereafter will be $18,000. "OPenscape brings the power of the enterprise to the Web for rapid application development and deployment," stated Sundar Subramaniam, Chairman of Object Power. "OPenscape expands traditional HTML document sharing See data conferencing. and Java interactive and multimedia capabilities by adding a third dimension -- the ability to run enterprise applications securely in Netscape. OPenscape will also run in Microsoft's forthcoming Blackbird environment." OPenscape is based on Object Power's suite of open, standards-based tools for building flexible, enterprise-wide applications in a distributed component environment. Object Power's full line of tools provides additional capabilities not available in OPenscape, including the ability to transfer Netscape components into any OLE-enable environment such as Microsoft Excel (tool) Microsoft Excel - A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world. Latest version: Excel 97, as of 1997-01-14. , Visual Basic or Lotus Notes where they will continue to operate and interact with back-end servers. Object Power also provides technical education courses and consulting services focused on component software implementation. Object Power is a Cambridge, Mass.-based provider of software development tools, education and consulting services. The company's mission is to provide practical business solutions utilizing the latest and most enabling technologies. CONTACT: Object Power Incorporated Oliver Churchill, 617/499-6818 or Hewlett-Packard Michele Reina, 408/447-5334 or Slater PR & Marketing Terri Slater, 508/359-5677 |
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