I think they did figure it out!
October 14, 1999 17:33
DLJdirect Distributes Business-Critical Customer Software With
Marimba's Castanet
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 1999--
Castanet Simplifies Distribution of DLJdirect's New
MarketSpeed(tm) Software Versions and Makes it Easy for Investors
to Keep Their Software Current
Marimba(R) Inc. (Nasdaq:MRBA), a leading provider of Internet-based software management solutions, today announced that DLJdirect Inc. (NYSE:DIR) has implemented Castanet to distribute a software
package and subsequent updates over the Web.
DLJdirect MarketSpeed(tm) 3.0 is one of the brokerage industry's premier investment management and online trading software applications.
"With Castanet, we can make the software distribution and updating processes easy and fast, so that retail customers will always have the latest versions of our software," said Suresh Kumar, Chief
Information Officer of DLJdirect. "This ensures that they are always benefiting from our ongoing efforts to improve the software. At the same time, by minimizing the number of users relying on outdated software, we can reduce overhead support costs."
Castanet transfers only code that has actually been modified. With these incremental data transfers and other bandwidth utilization features, downloading times are minimized so customer service is optimized. DLJdirect favored Castanet's solution because of its checkpoint/restart feature.
"With Castanet's checkpoint/restart feature, if a transmission error occurs, the download process begins at the point where it left off," said Kumar.
DLJdirect is also planning to use Castanet internally to distribute new versions of MarketSpeed.
"This process will be streamlined with Castanet's ability to perform incremental upgrades automatically," said Kumar. "In addition, with Castanet, we could have the potential to have a full report on the version status of every server allowing us to document the updating process."
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