Programmer's Paradise to distribute Antares Alliance Group's EdgeworX.DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 1997-- Agreement Extends EdgeworX Physical Distribution to European Market Antares Alliance Group today announced a European distribution agreement with Programmer's Paradise, Inc. Under the agreement, Programmer's Paradise, a leading international direct marketer and publisher of products for the PC software development industry, will be authorized to resell and distribute EdgeworX to developers in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, as well as in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . EdgeworX is a Web application development and execution framework aimed at the Visual Basic community and the only Web application development tool based on Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications (VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) A subset of Visual Basic that provides a common language for customizing Microsoft applications. VBA supports COM, which allows a VBA script to invoke internal functions within Excel, Word and other COM-based programs or to make use of ). "Our introduction of EdgeworX in April has resulted in product delivery to over 4,000 developers, primarily in the United States," said Olivier Thierry, vice president and general manager, Antares Alliance Group's Internet Line of Business. "Our agreement with Programmer's Paradise is a major step forward in duplicating across Europe the marketplace acceptance we have experienced here. Additionally, this agreement helps us better leverage the global presence of our equity partners, Amdahl and EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. ." Programmer's Paradise will list EdgeworX within its highly targeted local language catalogs throughout Europe. Additionally, starting next week, developers may electronically purchase and download EdgeworX from the Programmer's Paradise Web site (http://www.pparadise.com). This partnership marks the second Electronic Software Delivery (ESD (1) (Electronic Software Distribution) Distributing new software and upgrades via the network rather than individual installations on each machine. See ESL. ) agreement for Antares Alliance, who formed its first ESD partnership with Software.net in April. "It is our goal at Programmer's Paradise to constantly uncover new and emerging technologies for our print and Web-based catalogs," said Jeff Largiader, vice president of marketing, Programmer's Paradise. "Antares Alliance's EdgeworX represents a significant advancement in Web application development, targeted at VB developers around the world building vertical market applications. We are excited about the opportunity to assist Antares Alliance in reaching the international VB community with this innovative Web application development tool." About EdgeworX EdgeworX is a VBA-based development and execution framework for Web applications. At the heart of EdgeworX is EdgeCOM -- a library of 27 server-side ActiveX components encapsulating both 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. and application logic. Building Web applications with EdgeworX is much like building desktop applications with Visual Basic. EdgeCOM components are dropped into the application, their properties manipulated via property sheets and wizards, and their logic coded with the Visual Basic programming language on intuitive events. Mundane tasks associated with Web development such as 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. , form data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a , and HTML file manipulation are eliminated, allowing developers to build dynamic applications using their existing skillset. Additional information about EdgeworX may be found at http://www.edgesite.com . Programmer's Paradise, Inc. Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Shewsbury, N.J., Programmer's Paradise, 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 : PROG) is the leading international direct marketer of software development products and tools for PCs, servers and networks, operating through catalog, corporate reseller and wholesale distribution channels in the United States and Europe. The Programmer's Paradise Website can be accessed at http://www.pparadise.com . Antares Alliance Group Antares Alliance Group, a global software company formed by equity partners Amdahl Corporation (company) Amdahl Corporation - A US computer manufacturer. Amdahl is a major supplier of large mainframes, UNIX and Open Systems software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, applications development software, and a variety of educational and and EDS, develops and markets a unique suite of highly-scalable software solutions to help individual developers and organizations build and execute object-oriented Web applications and enterprise-level client/server applications. Antares Alliance's current business partners include Software.net, Hewlett-Packard (HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ), Microsoft (MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ), OnNet Solutions, Programmer's Paradise (PROG) and Summit Software. The EdgeworX Partner Program is actively signing additional VARs, systems integrators and ISPs for widespread distribution of EdgeworX. Antares Alliance, founded in 1993, has operations in 20 countries. -0- Note to Editors: Antares, Antares Alliance and EdgeworX are trademarks of Antares Alliance Group. Microsoft, Visual Basic, ActiveX and Windows are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, in the United States and/or other countries. Programmer's Paradise is a registered trademark. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Caryn Converse, (617) 494-9500, ext 229 FitzGerald Communications Inc. cconverse@fitzcomm.com or Jeff Largiader, (908) 933-1346 Programmer's Paradise, Inc. jlargiad@pparadise.com |
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