Progress Software and IONA Technologies Announce Agreement to Provide Integrated Platform for Deploying Distributed Applications With Apptivity.BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 1998-- Market Leading Application Server and Object Request Broker See ORB. (programming) Object Request Broker - (ORB) Part of the OMG CORBA specification, an ORB's basic function is to pass method invocation requests to the correct objects and return the results to the caller. Unite to Provide Industrial Strength Performance and Reliability and CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global (R)/COM Interoperability Progress Software Corporation (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 :PRGS PRGS Phosphoribosylglycinamide Synthetase ) today announced it has licensed IONA Technologies' (NASDAQ:IONAY) OrbixWeb(tm), and that the two companies will work together to integrate their product offerings. OrbixWeb, the industry-leading Java CORBA Enterprise middleware, will be integrated with the new version of Progress Apptivity 3.0, scheduled to ship this Fall. The resulting powerful combination will provide corporations with a highly scalable, high performance, standards-based application server platform complete with CORBA/COM interoperability for building and deploying mission-critical business applications in a heterogeneous server environment. Apptivity and OrbixWeb provide a true cross-platform and distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. solution, keying in on a vital requirement for today's applications which must reach a broad base of users with various browsers, systems and types of electronic connections. Major leaders in their industry such as Yahoo! and The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is the largest futures exchange in the United States and the second largest exchange in the world for the trading of futures and options on futures. have selected the combination of Apptivity and OrbixWeb as their integrated application development environment of choice over other solutions based on its deployment speed, versatility and connectivity capabilities. More than 3,500 businesses worldwide have standardized on IONA Technologies' Orbix(R) family of products. It is the world's leading implementation completeness of the Object Management Group's CORBA specification for enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. . It provides a built-in infrastructure that requires no new hardware or software investment costs Those program costs required beyond the development phase to introduce into operational use a new capability; to procure initial, additional, or replacement equipment for operational forces; or to provide for major modifications of an existing capability. , making it the number one choice among CORBA products. "As companies seek to deploy complex business applications for the Web that integrate diverse server platforms and leverage the inherent flexibility of the Java programming language, they will be unable to ignore CORBA and Orbix," stated Noel Toolan, senior vice president of market development at IONA Technologies IONA Technologies, NASDAQ: IONA, began life as a campus company in Trinity College, Dublin and was founded by Chris Horn, Annrai O'Toole, Colin Newman and Seán Baker.[1][2] IONA maintains headquarter offices in Dublin, Boston and Tokyo. . "Together the combination of Orbix and Apptivity provide leading edge technology to successfully develop distributed applications in a short time frame. The powerful combination of the two products provides corporations with a simple and easily accessible solution for mission-critical business applications." "Today's corporations demand powerful and reliable technologies to keep pace with, and set standards for, delivering business critical solutions to its customers," said Dennis Moore
Dennis Moore (born November 8, 1945), is an American politician, and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing , vice president, Apptivity product unit marketing for Progress Software Corporation. "The integration of Orbix with Apptivity will help our customers realize the promises of true distributed computing, and sustain Apptivity's Java marketplace lead in product capability, deployment speed, industry standards adoption and technological foresight." About Progress Apptivity Apptivity is an integrated environment for building and deploying business applications for the Web. It provides teams with a comprehensive framework to extend business-critical applications and data to the Web -- reaching out to customers, partners and suppliers as never before. Within Apptivity's visual environment, developers can simultaneously build the thin client and rich server for multi-tier business applications. 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 is supported across the multi-threaded, scalable Apptivity application servers, enabling the high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. of middle-tier resources to handle large numbers of concurrent users. Apptivity is the choice of successful development teams worldwide due to its high scalability, fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. , team support, easy integration with packaged and legacy applications, distributed debugger, cross-server and -browser support, and support for the industry standards. With tightly integrated Java development tools and application server, Apptivity slashes the time-to-market and cost of Web applications. About IONA Technologies Founded in 1991, IONA Technologies (NASDAQ:IONAY) is the world leader in Making Software Work Together(tm). IONA's leading product, Orbix(R), provides customers with a standards-based enterprise middleware solution to make diverse software components work together in a reliable, dependable and scalable manner. 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. IDC's market research, Orbix, which is used by over 3,500 businesses worldwide and conforms to the Object Management Group's CORBA specification, is the world's leading object middleware product. About Progress Software Corporation Progress Software Corporation is a worldwide supplier of application development tools, database technology and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services , with 1,100 employees in more than 50 offices across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America. Professional developers use Progress Software solutions, including the Apptivity, WebSpeed(tm), ProtoSpeed(tm) and PROGRESS(R) products, to build, deploy and maintain applications across Internet, client/server and host/terminal computing environments. Progress Software's products are used by independent software vendors (ISVs) and customers, who in turn generated more than $1.5 billion in applications sales in 1997. For more information, visit http://www.progress.com or call 1-800-477-6473. PROGRESS is a registered trademark of Progress Software Corporation. Apptivity, WebSpeed and ProtoSpeed are trademarks of Progress Software Corporation. Orbix is a registered trademark of IONA Technologies. Making Software Work Together is a trademark of IONA Technologies. CORBA is a trademark or registered trademark of Object Management Group, Inc. in the US and other countries. All other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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