Red Oak Software Announces .NET Support for Entire AIF Portfolio; Enterprise-Level Integration Capabilities Now Available For SMB.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 2004 Red Oak Software, Inc. (www.redoaksw.com) announces the general availability of full .NET integration capability for all of its Application Integration Framework (AIF AIF Annual Information Form AIF Apoptosis-Inducing Factor AIF Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie (French: Intergovernmental Agency for Francophony) AIF Australian Imperial Force (TM)) products. This capability, named .NET Bridge, now enables all small and medium businesses (SMB (1) (Small to Medium-sized Business) Also called "SME" (small to medium-sized enterprise), it refers to companies that are larger than the small office/home office (SOHO), but not huge. ) that have implemented Microsoft's .NET, to take advantage of enterprise-class integration technologies previously available only to the largest corporations. Building upon the proven technologies successfully being used by many Fortune 500 companies, this complimentary .NET capability extends the coverage for programmatically Using programming to accomplish a task. integrating enterprise-class legacy applications. It also continues to prove that customers of all sizes can leverage their legacy investments and build heterogeneous software applications without compromising functionality or performance. At its core, .NET Bridge enables the seamless and efficient coupling of Red Oak's Transaction Integration solutions with all .NET applications, including Microsoft's recently announced BizTalk Server Software from Microsoft that provides integration between business processes within an enterprise and between different organizations. BizTalk Server uses protocol implementations called "adapters" to communicate with applications and includes built-in adapters and a framework for 2004. It is an interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. product that enables Red Oak products to fully participate in the cross-language development capabilities of Microsoft .NET See .NET. . .NET Bridge allows applications written in .NET languages, such as C#, managed C++ and Visual Basic.NET See VB.NET. to transparently access the programming interfaces from Red Oak's AIF products.
.Net Bridge supports the following Red Oak products:
-- Legacy Integrator IBM z-series, i-series, UNIX and Digital
applications
-- Web Integrator Any browser-based application
-- Tandem Integrator Any application accessible via 6530
-- Unisys Integrator Any application accessible via UTS
With this new support, .NET applications now have access to the full range of AIF enterprise-class facilities provided by Red Oak's entire portfolio of non-invasive integration products. This functionality is designed to enable all small and medium businesses to access the functionally rich capabilities of integration solutions previously available only to the largest companies in the world, thereby improving the robustness and performance of distributed network applications.
Key features and benefits of .NET Bridge include:
-- Seamless integration between .NET and Red Oak's suite of
solutions
Full integration between any .NET environment and all Red Oak
enterprise-class integration solutions.
-- Collection classes directly mapped
.NET and Java collections have been directly mapped in both
directions, increasing the efficiency of distributed
applications.
-- Strong naming
The strong naming of proxy assemblies allows internal
application signing and increases application security.
-- J# support
The ability to call classes from J# in addition to the
standard .NET supported languages of C#, Visual Basic.NET
and managed C++.
-- C# support
The ability to automatically generate C# directly from SDKs.
-- Performance
Significant performance enables fast network support and
the .NET implementation performs as well as a native Java
solution.
Small and medium businesses, which need to have .NET applications programmatically access production legacy and web applications, now have a robust and industry-proven solution that does not require development of a custom proprietary implementation. Availability and Pricing .NET Bridge is currently available for Red Oak's Legacy Integrator and will be available for all Red Oak products, including Legacy Navigator, Web Integrator, Tandem Integrator and Unisys Integrator in Q2, 2004. The price for .NET Bridge is $2,495 per server. About Red Oak Software, Inc. Red Oak Software is the leading Transaction Integration solutions provider for production Legacy and Web applications. A pioneer in terminal-based and browser-based legacy integration, Red Oak's Application Integration Framework products enable corporations to leverage their investment in legacy and web-based systems and extend their reach to all applications critical to the future of eBusiness. Red Oak Software is privately held and financed through private investment and venture capital from Opticality Ventures of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Red Oak is headquartered in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey Mountain Lakes is a Borough in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 4,256. Mountain Lakes was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 3, 1924, from portions of Boonton , with corporate offices in Rochester, New York This article is about the city of Rochester in Monroe County. For the town in Ulster County, see Rochester, Ulster County, New York. Rochester, once known as The Flour City, and more recently as The Flower City or . For additional information, contact Red Oak Software, Inc., 115 Route 46, Suite F1000, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey 07046. Phone: 973-316-6064; email: Info@redoaksw.com; or visit the Web site at www.redoaksw.com. The Red Oak Software logo, Red Oak Software, Legacy Integrator, Web Integrator, Legacy Navigator, Tandem Integrator, Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. Solution Pack, Application Integration Framework and Transaction Integration are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Oak Software Inc. .NET and BizTalk are 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, . Unisys is a trademark of Unisys Corporation (company) Unisys Corporation - The company formed in 1984-5 when Burroughs Corporation merged with Sperry Corporation. This was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was coined. . All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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