Sonki and Friends...found this on the Home Depot thread.....
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov 8, 1999 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Allaire
Corporation (Nasdaq: ALLR), the industry's leading independent
e-business platform vendor, today announced that Home Depot (NYSE: HD)
has chosen Allaire JRun, the industry leading server-side Java
development and deployment engine, to power its in-store information
kiosks. Home Depot, the world's largest home improvement retailer, has
established JRun as a corporate standard for Web- based development
projects and will immediately use it to run JavaServer Pages (JSP) on
its in-store kiosks to deliver timely and accurate information to
shoppers nationwide.
"We were looking for a solution that would enable us to deliver product
and vendor information quickly and efficiently to our customers via our
in- store information kiosks. Once we determined that JavaServer Pages
was the ideal technology to accomplish this feat and performed an
extensive review of the leading solutions in the market, it was clear
that JRun was the premier JSP engine available," said Ron Griffin, CIO,
of The Home Depot. "JRun provides the most flexibility and performance.
And it enables us to maximize our physical 'floor space' while
providing robust and easy-to-use information kiosks for our customers."
JRun, used by more than 80,000 developers worldwide, fully supports Sun
Microsystems' JavaServer Pages (JSP) 1.0 specification and provides an
environment to build and deliver Java servlets and JSP applications on
a variety of operating systems using all the major Java Virtual
Machines and web servers. Standardizing on JRun, Home Depot can now
take advantage of the new JSP technology today to build web
applications for everything from in-store kiosks to corporate intranets
to e-commerce sites. JRun will be used to serve up the content for the
end user experience at Home Depot's new in-store "kiosk" machines that
will run on an HP UX Server.
"Home Depot selecting JRun as a corporate standard validates our
mission of providing companies with an e-business platform that meets
their business and development needs today and tomorrow," said Paul
Colton, vice president, JRun for Allaire. "JRun and JSP will provide
Home Depot with a leading-edge technology solution to address both
their internal and external information needs while concurrently
addressing their desire for a product that has a small footprint yet is
robust enough to deliver an exceptional end-user experience."
About JSP JSP is a new technology standard, which is being created by a
consortium of companies led by Sun Microsystems, for the development of
web applications with Java. JSP uses a page-based scripting syntax that
is similar to Active Server Pages, but uses Java as the scripting
language. The JSP 1.0 specification was first released on June 1, 1999. |
