Pervasive Software and Renaissance Worldwide Create Tango 2000-Based On-Line Forum For IT Professionals.Business/Technology Editors AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2000 Tango 2000 Powers TriActive's Innovative, Open-Source "Utopia Place" IT Community for Optimized Practices in Systems Management 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 software that delivers the freedom to create applications for everyone, everywhere, today announced that it has joined forces with Renaissance Worldwide Inc. (Nasdaq:REGI REGI Raptor Education Group Inc (Wisconsin) ), a leading business and technology consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , to deliver turnkey e-business solutions powered by Tango(TM) 2000 Web application development software. Among the first of these jointly developed e-business applications is a Tango 2000-based IT community called Utopia Place, sponsored by TriActive, Inc., an Austin-based management service provider (MSP (1) (Management Service Provider or Managed Service Provider) An organization that manages a customer's computer systems and networks which are either located on the customer's premises or at a third-party datacenter. ) of enterprise systems management solutions. TriActive's Utopia Place (www.utopiaplace.com) provides a peer community for IT professionals in mid-sized organizations. "Utopia" stands for User-Tested Optimized Practices in Action, emphasizing the forum's focus on involving IT professionals in refining systems management practices. Using the Tango 2000 Web application development environment, a team of consultants and Web developers from Renaissance and Pervasive developed the Tango 2000-driven Web application components of Utopia Place. The forum is deployed on Tango 2000 Application Server for Solaris software, as well as an Apache Web server See Apache. . The site also uses Oracle as its back-end database A back-end database is a database that is accessed by users indirectly through an external application rather than by application programming stored within the database itself or by low level manipulation of the data (e.g. through SQL commands). , leveraging Tango 2000's native support for Oracle. "We chose Tango 2000 as the foundation for Utopia Place because it provided exceptional time to market, enabling us to get the forum up and running in weeks, rather than months," said Hayden Stewart, vice president of engineering at TriActive. "Tango's visual, object-oriented development environment will also make ongoing site maintenance fast, easy and cost-effective. In addition, the combined Web application development expertise of both Pervasive and Renaissance made a huge difference in accelerating this forum from concept to on-line reality." "Pervasive has provided Renaissance with a superior level of commitment and support," said Jay Lake, director of eTransformation product management at Renaissance Worldwide. "Positive personal attention from Pervasive's senior management and the dedication of Pervasive's professional and technical staff have been key factors in our successful delivery of several mission-critical e-business solutions that are powered by Pervasive's Tango 2000 Web application development software. Tango 2000 provides a `one-tool-fits-all' option for Renaissance that adapts well to efforts ranging in size from modest prototypes to enterprise-level projects." "We greatly value our relationship with Renaissance for their ability to deliver rapid results. Their consultants and developers bring a high level of skill to Tango-based Web application development projects," said David Dunnigan, senior vice president of marketing and sales at Pervasive Software. "The successful deployment of Utopia Place speaks to the power and speed of Tango 2000, as well as to the strength of the Pervasive/Renaissance relationship. Utopia Place provides a world-class forum for IT professionals, and we're proud that Tango played a business-critical role in enabling the site." 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 (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. and Macintosh). Tango 2000 includes a copy of the 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. database, robust reporting functionality and full support for leading databases and industry standards such as 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. , 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. , 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. , 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. , SQL, HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. 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 Utopia Place Utopia Place is a peer community of IT professionals utilizing the open source philosophy to craft and polish optimized practices in systems management for the middle market. In this self-regulating environment, systems managers draw on their real-world experiences and desired state to define tools, policies and processes in: -- asset management -- problem management -- virus management -- remote management -- planning management For more information, please visit www.utopiaplace.com. About Renaissance Worldwide Renaissance Worldwide, Inc. is a global business technology consulting firm that provides focused solutions for breakthrough performance. Through its core businesses Renaissance delivers best-in-class services to Fortune 1000 and public sector clients by following its proven Concept-to-Completion(R) delivery model, designed to optimize time to return on investment and minimize risk throughout the project life cycle. Founded in 1986, the company currently has approximately 5,000 professionals in 70 offices, located in principal cities throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Visit Renaissance on the Web: http://www.rens.com. About TriActive, Inc. Overcoming the three commonly cited problems of complexity, cost of ownership and length of time to realize benefit, TriActive's service delivers simplicity, affordability and rapid benefit. The TriActive solution combines an innovative MSP offering with a systems management portal. TriActive Inc. embraces the Internet to rapidly deliver the benefits of enterprise systems management to mid-sized organizations. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, TriActive utilizes its proprietary Internet-based MicroAgent(TM) for real-time system monitoring A System Monitor (SM) is a process within a distributed system for collecting and storing state data. There are many issues involved with designing and implementing a system monitor. and control. In addition, TriActive customizes its portals to simplify enterprise systems management features previously targeted only at Fortune 100 companies. The TriActive approach delivers optimized practices sized specifically for the middle market, consisting of organizations with approximately 200-5,000 total devices including PCs and servers. 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 Refers to the use of computers in everyday life, including PDAs, smartphones and other mobile devices. It also refers to computers contained in commonplace objects such as cars and appliances and implies that people are unaware of their presence. , 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 North Asia or Northern Asia is a subregion of Asia. The most common definition of the term is;
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