Starbase Corporation and WebGain Announce Partnership to Deliver Tightly Integrated Best-of-Breed Development Solution
August 14, 2000 08:36 AM Eastern Time
SANTA ANA & SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 2000--
Agreement Extends WebGain Studio With StarTeam's Integrated Code and Content Collaboration Capability
Starbase Corp. SBAS , a leading provider of collaboration products for the creation and management of integrated code and content eBusiness applications, and WebGain, Inc., the e-Business application development company, today announced a strategic technology and marketing partnership.
The partnership sets the stage for tight integration between WebGain Studio, an integrated browser-to-database eCommerce development environment, and StarTeam's integrated, collaborative Web code and content, change management solution for eBusiness development projects. This integration will offer enterprise teams a complete development environment for rapidly building Java component-based eCommerce applications.
"StarTeam and the Starbase Server deliver critical team collaboration and code and content repository support needed for teams utilizing multiple development products, like the WebGain Studio solution," stated William R. Stow III, president and CEO of Starbase. "WebGain Studio is a tightly integrated, best-of-breed product set that enables the rapid development of complete Java-component-based eBusiness applications. The combination of StarTeam and WebGain Studio offers customers true integrated support for the rapid creation and management of Web code and content."
"WebGain Studio has been well-received by enterprise developers, a testimony that the solution significantly elevates developer productivity and dramatically reduces time-to-market for eCommerce applications," said Joe Menard, president and CEO of WebGain. "By enabling our customers to have access to a best-of-breed technology like StarTeam, we further extend our own solutions benefits, as well as deliver the team collaboration capabilities for implementing successful eCommerce applications that are dependent on both code and content."
"The time is ripe for solid, well-rounded Internet IDEs, and WebGain has put together a nice package," stated Tracy Corbo, senior analyst at Hurwitz Group. "This is not a band-aid approach to application development, but rather a web-application development solution that is based on the best elements of current application-development practices. StarTeam from Starbase provides a complimentary solution to WebGain Studio. Web applications require a joint effort from both developers and content providers. StarTeam is a collaboration environment that brings together professional developers and content creators under one roof."
"Our partnership strategy has been designed to deliver to customers a comprehensive solution that encompasses the full eCommerce application development lifecycle," added Stow. "With this partnership, as well as previously formed alliances structured to deliver requirements management and testing components to our solution set, large scale enterprises now have access to a collaborative, best-of-breed lifecycle solution fully capable of easily creating robust, scalable Java-based Web applications."
StarTeam significantly improves the productivity of eBusiness development teams. The solution features a centrally located object-linking repository designed to manage and store all corporate digital assets, providing developers with the ability to effectively manage and collaborate on enterprise-wide applications.
WebGain Studio is an open standards-based e-commerce development solution that works seamlessly with existing databases, OS platforms and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application servers. It integrates and extends industry-leading technologies that were acquired by WebGain, including Symantec's VisualCafe, Tendril Software's StructureBuilder unified modeling language (UML) tool and The Object People's TopLink object-to-relational mapping technology. The combination of StarTeam and WebGain Studio provides IT teams with a scaleable, reliable and robust Java component based development environment for rapidly building and deploying eCommerce applications.
About WebGain
WebGain, Inc., the e-Business application development company, helps IT and business teams gain competitive advantage by enabling them to rapidly build Java-component-based e-commerce applications that can be easily deployed across a variety of e-commerce application servers. WebGain Studio, the company's flagship product, substantially reduces time to market for e-commerce applications and improves application completeness and quality. Privately held, WebGain, Inc. is headquartered in Santa Clara, and is on the Web at webgain.com.
About Starbase
Starbase is the leading provider of collaboration products for the creation and management of integrated code and content eBusiness applications. Collaboration is the simultaneous coordination, management and communication of geographically dispersed contributors of both code and content for eBusiness applications. With over 1,400 StarTeam customers worldwide, our technology supports the continuous cycle of creating, linking and managing digital assets, which comprise complex eBusiness applications. Starbase products enable users with differing technical and functional backgrounds to collaborate on the production of Web sites and eBusiness initiatives from multiple locations. StarTeam, the company's flagship product, was labeled as "StarTeam fuels team exchange" in an early release review from InfoWorld in January 2000 and received "Two Thumbs Up" from New Media in May 1999 and Four Stars from Software Development in August 1999. Microsoft and CMP Media named Starbase the 25th fastest growing ISV for Windows in April 1999. StarTeam also received the "Best of the Test Center" award by InfoWorld in January 1998. Companies and organizations, including leading corporations such as Lucent Technologies, Intel, BMC Software, Motorola, PepsiCo, Seagate Technology, Hollywood Entertainment, eTour.com, Oxygen Media, and Ann Taylor have selected StarTeam to manage their eBusiness development projects. Starbase is headquartered at 4 Hutton Centre Drive, Suite 800, Santa Ana, CA 92707. Tel: 714/445-4400. Fax: 714/445-4404. Visit Starbase's Web site at www.starbase.com.
Forward Looking Statements
When used in the preceding discussion, the words "believes, expects, or intend to" and similar conditional expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties and actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any of the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, (i) conditions in the general economy or the software industry, (ii) the timely development and market acceptance of products and technologies, (iii) competitive factors, (iv) demand for team productivity software products, (v) sell-through of products in the sales channel, and (vi) other risks described in Starbase Corp.'s SEC reports and filings.
Note to Editors: Starbase and its product names are trademarks of Starbase Corp. All other product and company names herein are trademarks of their respective owners.
CONTACT: Starbase Martha Ray, 714/445-4531 (Manager, Public Relations) mray@starbase.com Ann Jones, 714/445-4440 (Director, Investor Relations) ajones@starbase.com or WebGain Kathy Hurley, 408/517-3712 (Senior Marketing) kathy.hurley@webgain.com Gerry Baker, 714/842-4027 (Public Relations) gerrybaker@aol.com |
