TIBCO Launches Real-Time Portal-On-Demand Network Services; TIBCO.net Integrates Content and E-Business Services Across Web, Wireless Media
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( BW)(CA-TIBCO-SOFTWARE) TIBCO Launches Real-Time "Portal-On-Demand"
Network Services; TIBCO.net Integrates Content and E-Business Services
Across Web, Wireless Media
Business/Technology Editors
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 1999--TIBCO Software
Inc., the Silicon Valley technology subsidiary of Reuters Group PLC,
today announced TIBCO.net, a new service and technology offering that
provides information integration and electronic business services for
Internet companies, corporate Web sites and wireless
telecommunications carriers.
Additionally, TIBCO.net includes global e-commerce transactional
services via TIBCO technology, which is used by many of the world's
leading financial institutions and stock exchanges.
The announcement was made at "Upside Magazine's Showcase 99"
executive conference in San Diego hosted by computer market pundit
David Coursey.
TIBCO.net enables businesses to tap into external sources of
information from Reuters and other third-party content providers,
integrate it with internal sources of information, and then make it
easily accessible in real-time to customers, partners and employees
via Internet browsers, pagers and cell phones.
Integrated content from TIBCO.net is sent directly over TIBCO's
massive, multiple OC-12 connections to the global Internet to consumer
sites, such as early TIBCO customers Yahoo! (in the form of delayed
stock quotes) and Netscape, or onto private enterprise networks, such
as 3Com's corporate extranet, or to wireless telecommunications
providers, such as PageNet. Alternatively, TIBCO.net can integrate
content inside a customer's own data center.
"We are enabling corporations to rapidly become commerce-driven
e-businesses by integrating and filtering external content with
internally created business information," said Vivek Ranadive,
chairman and CEO of TIBCO. "Our unique experience is in delivering
integrated and filtered content in real-time. We say that if your Web
site is not real-time, it's history."
"The TIBCO.net launch underscores the importance of customized
services in the New World where data, voice and video traffic are
coming together over a single network," said Don Listwin, executive
vice president, Cisco Systems. "TIBCO's solution will enable the next
generation of real-time, personalized information, giving customers
immediate access to customized services including news, travel,
weather and corporate information."
"Portal content isn't just for the big boys anymore," said David
Coursey, editor and publisher of Coursey.Com, a leading computer and
Internet industry newsletter, and executive producer of Upside
Magazine's Showcase 99. "Here is an offering from a company that knows
more about integrating news, weather, sports and corporate information
in real-time than any other provider in the space. The playing field
for the Portal games just got leveled."
From Anywhere to Anything
TIBCO.net's content strategy calls for the integration of
internal and external information along with the unique capability to
transmit that information in real-time to, from and in-between various
access devices including Web browsers, wireless PDAs such as the 3Com
Palm Pilot, pagers and cell phones -- all the while maintaining
seamless integration with e-commerce transactional systems.
At the same time, using TIBCO's widely adopted publish and
subscribe multicasting or "broadcasting" software, TIBCO.net hopes to
enable Web sites to expand communities of users from small groups into
worldwide networks with millions of users.
"Sun has been working with TIBCO, a market leader in enterprise
application integration and real-time content, for more than a
decade," said Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems.
"TIBCO's reliable implementation of the publish and subscribe model
provides another important building block for customers to integrate
the Internet and e-commerce into their business."
"3Com customers place a great deal of importance on the
integration of public Web-based information and private corporate
information. They are also interested in mobile access to this
information via their Palm Computing devices, and TIBCO.net brings
this prospect closer to reality," said Eric Benhamou, chairman and
chief executive officer, 3Com Corporation. "Together with TIBCO, we
will explore ways to add real-time, personalized delivery of internal
enterprise content to the news and information to be provided by
3Com's Palm.Net(TM) service."
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