Pervasive Software's Tango 2000 Drives Wireless Web Portal for Popular Swiss Alps Resort.Business/Technology Editors AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2000 Swiss Developer eProduction AG Uses Tango's Native WML (Wireless Markup Language) A tag-based language used in the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). WML is an XML document type allowing standard XML and HTML tools to be used to develop WML applications. It evolved from Openwave's HDML, but WML is not a superset of HDML. Capabilities to Create Innovative Wireless Application for Davos Resort Pervasive Software Pervasive Software Pervasive develops and distributes data infrastructure software that enable corporations to integrate, analyze, secure, manage and harvest data from disparate sources. Inc. (Nasdaq:PVSW PVSW Pervasive Software Inc. ), a leading provider of software that delivers the freedom to create applications for everyone, everywhere, today announced that its Tango(TM) 2000 Web application development software is the power behind a wireless Web portal See portal. developed for a popular European ski and vacation resort. eProduction AG, a leading Web application developer based in Zurich, Switzerland, used Tango 2000's native support for wireless markup language Wireless Markup Language, based on XML, is a content format for devices that implement the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) specification, such as mobile phones, and preceded the use of other markup languages now used with WAP, such as XHTML and even standard HTML (which are (WML) to develop the wireless Web application for Davos (www.davos.ch), a Swiss resort located in the Alps. The Davos resort's Tango 2000-based Web service delivers the latest weather, snow reports, hotel and restaurant listings and tourist information tourist information - Information in an on-line display that is not immediately useful, but contributes to a viewer's gestalt of what's going on with the software or hardware behind it. to users who point their Web-enabled cell phone microbrowsers to http://wap.davos.ch. The wireless Web portal has proven to be very popular among Web users, and roughly ten percent of Davos bookings are now conducted over wireless application protocol (WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. )-ready cell phones. The entire Davos site is built on Tango 2000 and deployed on Tango 2000 Application Server software for Linux. "Our typical customers are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. flexible Web platforms and portals," said Andre A. Zibung, COO of eProduction AG. "As WML/WAP continues to gain momentum in the marketplace, more of our customers like Davos are asking for access to this new technology. In the future, we expect that all of our applications will be WML/WAP aware. As demand increases, more WML/WAP applications will follow, and our Tango 2000/database framework makes creating cross-media solutions for WAP, WebTV and the World Wide Web a breeze." "The Davos wireless Web portal developed by eProduction validates that Tango 2000 is a preferred development environment for creating and deploying WML/WAP applications," said Ron Harris The term Ron Harris can refer to:
The market opportunity for wireless Web application developers is expected to grow rapidly. Recent GartnerGroup studies have predicted that mobile and wireless technologies will be the main driver in e-commerce solutions over the next few years and that more than 95 percent of new mobile phones are expected to be WAP-enabled within the next five years. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the WAP Forum, the number of mobile phone customers is expected to reach 500 million worldwide by 2003, with 75 percent of all mobile phones Internet-enabled by that time. The WAP Forum (www.wapforum.org) is an industry association that has developed the de-facto world standard for wireless information and telephony services on digital mobile phones and other wireless terminals. WAP Forum membership is open to all industry participants, and forum members represent the majority of the global communications technology sector. Pervasive Software recently joined the WAP Forum at an associate member level. In addition to developing customer sites like Davos with Tango 2000, eProduction has also used Tango 2000 as the foundation for its Web administration solutions, eSiteBuilder and eListing. The Tango-based eSiteBuilder solution offers significant time savings for Web publishing and lifecycle/maintenance, especially for large-scale projects. "We have chosen Tango 2000 as our Web application development platform because it offers exceptional ease of use and significantly enhances developer productivity and speed of development," added Stefan Brutsch, senior application developer at eProduction. "We also appreciate Tango's Windows NT/Linux portability as we migrate our Web applications from NT to Linux. In addition, we like Tango 2000's database connectivity. Tango integrates very efficiently with Pervasive.SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. 2000 and IBM's DB2, as well as with 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. code. Tango is simply the easiest way to integrate anything." About Tango 2000 Tango 2000 is a next-generation Web development environment that dramatically improves the time to market to develop and deploy critical e-business applications. With Tango 2000, developers can create and deploy the dynamic, database-driven Web applications today's customers require--and do so quickly, cost-effectively and with remarkable flexibility. Because it combines sophisticated yet easy-to-use technology with an open, extensible architecture, Tango 2000 provides best-of-breed Web development capabilities for Webmasters, professional developers and non-professionals alike. The Tango Development Studio is one of the most efficient visual programming environments available for designing, building and testing Web applications, enabling developers to represent business logic visually. The Tango Application Server enables scalable cross-platform deployment on today's most widely used platforms (Linux, Solaris, Windows NT and Macintosh). Tango 2000 includes a copy of the Pervasive.SQL database, robust reporting functionality and full support for leading databases and industry standards such as WML, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , HTML, JavaBeans, JavaScript, COM objects, ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. , SQL, HTTP and CGI CGI in full Common Gateway Interface. Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program. , among others. About eProduction AG Located in Zurich, Switzerland, eProduction AG (www.eproduction.ch) offers a wide range of Internet and multimedia services, from application development, homepage design and hosting to Internet portals and other business solutions. eProduction's primary focus is the development and marketing of Web construction/administration tools, such as eSiteBuilder, eNews, and eListing--all based on Tango 2000 technology. eProduction customers include the tourist resorts of Davos, Saastal, and Mengia, as well as Swiss telecommunication expert Multilink. In addition, eProduction provides the infrastructure for mobility services such as Multilease, Carfinder, and Carmarket; a platform/portal for Swiss car importer Emil Frey AG featuring Tango-enabled, extended used-cars search facilities and reseller services; a Tango-based expert system and CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). for the NBI NBI Niels Bohr Institute (Denmark) NBI National Bureau of Investigation NBI Nile Basin Initiative (Uganda) NBI National Bridge Inventory NBI Nation Brands Index (statistics) (Swiss National Bureau of Insurance); Web sites for the Indian Museum of Zurich, Honda, and Chrysler Switzerland; and business solutions for Schwarzkopf and office supplier Witzig/Waser. About Pervasive Software Pervasive Software Inc. (Nasdaq:PVSW) delivers the freedom to create applications for everyone, everywhere. The company's innovative software powers the next generation of pervasive computing, enabling e-business applications to reach beyond the desktop and easily share information across everything from handheld devices to information appliances and the Internet. A channel of more than 10,000 independent software vendors (ISVs), developers, value-added resellers (VARs) and partners builds, distributes and manages thousands of Pervasive-based applications on computing platforms across many corporate, mainstream and vertical markets. Based in Austin, Texas, Pervasive has offices in Canada, Europe, Japan, North Asia and Southeast Asia, as well as 70 distributors covering 80 countries. Visit Pervasive on the Web at www.pervasive.com (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. or call (800) 287-4383. Cautionary Statement This release may contain forward-looking statements, which are made pursuant to the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Forward-looking statements are generally preceded by words such as "may," "plans," "expects," "believes," "anticipates" or "intends." Forward-looking statements in this release about Tango 2000 software involve the risk that the software will not achieve customer and market acceptance, that the market opportunity for wireless Web applications will not grow as rapidly as anticipated or at all and that additional wireless applications will not be developed using our software. All forward-looking statements included in this document are based upon information available to Pervasive as of the date hereof, and Pervasive assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement. Investors are cautioned that actual results could differ materially from Pervasive's current expectations. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the factors and risks discussed in Pervasive's reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Pervasive, Pervasive Software, Pervasive.SQL, Btrieve and Tango are trademarks or registered trademarks of Pervasive Software Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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