StarBase Unveils StarTeam.com - a Web Site and E-Commerce
Production Control Solution
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StarTeam.com Will Give Webmasters the Ability to Manage and Control Large Teams of Web Application
and Web Site Developers
SANTA ANA, Calif., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- StarBase Corporation (Nasdaq: SBAS), a leading provider of
Internet and intranet based technical collaboration products for web site application production and
software configuration management (SCM), announced today the scheduled product release of
StarTeam.com in the second quarter of 1999. The new product targets the rapidly growing market for Web
site and e-commerce application development solutions that help to support the explosion in Internet
commerce. It has been estimated by International Data Corporation (IDC) that Internet commerce will
more than double in 1999 to US$68 billion, with online spending to reach nearly US$1 trillion by 2002.
Furthermore, IDC estimates that the worldwide market for Web professional development tools should
grow to over $950 million by 2002.
William R. Stow III, chief executive officer of StarBase corporation stated, "It is widely known that the
Internet is rapidly reshaping our economy, with an expected surge in business-to-business and
business-to-consumer commerce over the Internet. Companies are now scrambling to shift their Web
sites from purely informational (marketing) sites to also include mission critical, transactional
(e-commerce) systems. This has created an enormous new problem: managing an extremely complex
web site that is evolving rapidly as marketing and e-commerce business systems evolve. Imagine trying to
control a vast web of rapidly changing marketing pages, e-commerce software components, and an
expanding list of connected corporate mission-critical applications and data base systems; when all of
this must execute correctly and optimized to provide enough performance to respond to customers and
update internal information systems. StarTeam.com is the solution to this problem."
StarTeam.com addresses this problem by providing (i) tight control of Enterprise Web sites for
Webmasters, (ii) easy-to-use team collaboration for Webmasters, marketing professionals and content
creators/contributors, and (iii) advanced Software Configuration Management (SCM) functionality and
technical collaboration for e-commerce software developers. The company believes that the emerging
market of e-commerce Web site development requires a solution grounded in advanced SCM, that also
optimizes team collaboration through ease-of-use to accommodate non-programmers who have become
an increasingly important and sizable part of Web development teams. StarTeam.com's easy-to-use
solution is designed to seamlessly integrate with leading Web development tools, as well as providing a
standard interface to leading testing tools. The company believes that StarTeam.com will be the first
product targeted specifically for both web site content production and e-commerce development.
StarTeam.com provides both a submission-driven production control server required for the rapid updating
and production of content-oriented web sites and sophisticated SCM functionality in the background
required for e-commerce application development, and will deliver:
* Seamless integration with all web-based authoring tools, without modification to their workflow
* HTML integrity checking and automated defect initiation and resolution, with standard interfaces to
testing tools
* Workflow management that preserves the integrity of contributors' submissions
* Secure and auditable control of the applications' production environment
* Constant monitoring of production applications to detect unauthorized components and changes, with
instant roll-back
* Transparent version control and software configuration management for all components of the web
application
In collaboration with numerous customers, StarBase is developing StarTeam.com to specifically meet the
needs of today's corporate Web developers and managers. StarTeam 3.0 users have reported that they
are highly motivated to provide input about StarTeam.com as they clearly recognize the need for a Web
site production control solution.
Todd Mancini, director of next generation research for OneSource Information Services stated,
"StarTeam.com will help us address the exploding complexity of Web applications. Providing developers
with the tools to control the production cycle, maintain control over content management and manage
workflow will dramatically improve the efficiency and productivity of our mission-critical Internet application
development."
"StarTeam.com provides greater control and manageability of web applications to our development
teams," stated Clyde Wiggins, systems integration analyst at Lockheed Martin EIS (Enterprise
Information Systems). "The combined benefit of configuration and change management that StarTeam
brings to StarTeam.com will enable us to control and manage the various development stages of our web
applications, significantly increasing developer productivity and assisting us in maintaining higher
production standards."
Judith Hurwitz, president and chief executive officer of Hurwitz Group, a leading analyst and consulting
firm specializing in electronic business applications, said, "Managing web site production, development
and maintenance is a critical requirement for today's corporate IT departments. Organizations must have
reliability, audibility and predictability in their applications in order to compete."
Carlos Caballero, vice president of marketing for StarBase stated, "Until now Webmasters and developers
have had to choose between maintaining productivity and sacrificing life-cycle management, or reducing
their productivity to implement traditional software configuration management. With StarTeam.com,
contributors do not need to change anything in their routine, while Webmasters and administrators enjoy
full control, audibility, and the knowledge of what went into production, by whom, and why."
Forward-looking Statement
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, (vi) and other risks described in StarBase Corporation's SEC
reports and filings.
About StarBase
StarBase Corporation, with headquarters in Santa Ana, California, offers a complete family of advanced
Internet and Intranet-based technical collaboration and software configuration management tools for
improving team productivity, including Year 2000 and Enterprise Program Management Office
applications. StarTeam has won several awards including InfoWorld's 1997 "Best of the Test Center,"
PCWeek's 1996 Analyst's Choice and PC Week's 1996 IT Excellence Award. Leading organizations such
as Hollywood Entertainment, Bank of America, Boeing, Dell Corporation, Intel Corporation, Sprint, and
Xerox have chosen StarTeam to aid in their development projects. StarBase is located 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.
StarBase and its product names are trademarks of StarBase Corporation. All other products are
trademarks of their respective owners.
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