SunSoft Delivers Joe.MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 1996--SunSoft Inc., the Internet software company, today announced the general availability of its Joe (TM) 1.0 beta software Noun 1. beta software - software that has not yet been released but has received an alpha test and still has more bugs than a regular release; "beta software is usually available only to particular users who will test it" . Joe allows corporations to deliver sophisticated business applications onto their private intranets and the public Internet by directly connecting Java-based Web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
(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. (ORB) written completely in the Java (TM) programming language, that fully complies with the industry-standard Common Object Request Broker Architecture (standard, programming) Common Object Request Broker Architecture - (CORBA) An Object Management Group specification which provides a standard messaging interface between distributed objects. The original CORBA specification (1. (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 ) object model. Previously only available to selected sites, Joe beta software can now be downloaded for free from the SunSoft NEO (TM) home page at http://www.sun.com/sunsoft/neo/. Joe also minimizes network traffic by updating only new information instead of generating another Web page each time a user request is made. Since Joe is written entirely in the Java development language, companies can deliver Internet applications based on the Joe software product on any platform that supports Java. "Companies are currently faced with the tedious task of re-engineering their client-server applications for both intranet and Internet deployment using limited Web tools," said Brian Croll, director of Solaris server product marketing at SunSoft. "Joe simplifies the development and deployment of these applications by extending the power of the network to ubiquitous Java clients." SunSoft Joe Joe is part of the SunSoft NEO product family, a comprehensive CORBA-compliant object environment for developing, deploying and managing client-server applications for the Internet. SunSoft, Inc. SunSoft, Inc. is the leading provider of Internet management, access, application development and platform software. SunSoft's products, designed for information technology professionals, systems integrators, value added resellers, and computer manufacturers, are used to deliver Internet, network, and desktop computing systems that improve a company's internal and customer communications, and lets them quickly adapt to business change. The products are licensed and distributed through computer manufacturers and resellers worldwide. SunSoft is a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc. For more information, contact SunSoft on the Internet at: http://www.sun.com/sunsoft/. -0- Note to Editors: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, SunSoft, Joe, NEO, Solaris, Solaris NEO, Solstice solstice (sŏl`stĭs) [Lat.,=sun stands still], in astronomy, either of the two points on the ecliptic that lie midway between the equinoxes (separated from them by an angular distance of 90°). , Solstice NEO, WorkShop NEO and Java are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. CONTACT: SunSoft, Inc. Marie Alu, 415/786-4450 marie.alu@eng.sun.com or GCI GCI Ground Circuit Interrupter GCI Getty Conservation Institute GCI Global Commerce Initiative GCI Green Cross International (non-profit international environmental organization) GCI Growth Competitiveness Index GCI Great Cities Institute San Francisco Todd Tornga, 415/974-6200 ttornga@gcigroup.com |
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