StarBase Announces Initiative for Enterprise Integration with Microsoft Windows
DNA
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Companies Work Together to Enhance Integration Between StarBase Virtual Team
Server and Microsoft Windows DNA
SANTA ANA, Calif., June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- StarBase Corporation
(Nasdaq: SBAS) today announced an initiative to enhance the integration
between the Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Distributed interNet Applications
(Windows DNA) architecture technologies and the StarTeam Virtual Team Server.
The integration will enable customers to deliver software applications faster
and more efficiently by combining the complementary strengths of StarTeam
Virtual Team Server and the Windows DNA development model.
A core principle of Windows DNA is to ensure that Microsoft's platform
technologies work with other key platforms in the enterprise industry. The
heterogeneous nature of enterprise computing environments makes a high degree
of interoperability essential to today's technologies. By providing extensive
support for Microsoft's technologies and allowing developers to build
applications that work with any of the major distributed computing platforms,
StarTeam extends the reach of Windows DNA and Microsoft's rich data-tier,
application server and client platform capabilities. Under the initiative
announced today, StarBase will work with Microsoft to enhance support in
StarTeam for new Windows 2000 technologies, including COM+, the Active
Directory(TM) directory service, OLE DB, Microsoft Management Console and
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 browser software, among others. StarTeam
currently integrates with a number of Microsoft products and technologies,
including Component Object Model (COM), Microsoft SQL Server(TM), Microsoft
Project, Microsoft Office 2000, and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
"We're pleased to see StarBase expand the integration of Windows
Distributed interNet Applications into their products. Now, developers can
use the StarTeam Virtual Team Server along with the enabling foundation of the
Windows DNA architecture to quickly and efficiently leverage the innovative
business benefits of the Web," said Jigish Avalani, group manager of Windows
DNA Marketing at Microsoft Corp (Nasdaq: MSFT).
Alan Kucheck, vice president of Engineering at StarBase, stated,
"Extending Windows DNA support in all StarBase technologies and exploiting the
benefits of platform interoperability is one of our key objectives as we
continue to create more customizeable environments for our customers.
StarBase's customers derive a great deal of benefit in building their own thin
clients and work flow processes into our versioning and life cycle management
tools. Windows DNA architecture makes it easier to customize our products in
a cost-effective way."
StarBase is continually expanding its technological reach into Web content
management, making it easier for webmasters and content managers to achieve a
higher degree of control over the life-cycle of web objects. DNA architecture
provides a foundation that can be leveraged across all aspects of StarTeam's
digital management capabilities. StarBase has supported Windows DNA
architecture ever since the release of its award winning StarTeam 3.0 in 1998,
with the inclusion of a COM interface that enables customers to create
specific solutions that address complex software configuration management
needs.
Bill French, chief architect of Applications at StarBase, stated, "The
four fundamental services of Windows DNA (presentation, application, data, and
system services) are being utilized in our soon to be released Web products,
all of which use a browser-based client designed for web managers. For
example, we have created a unique communication interface between StarSweeper,
our Web content quality assurance tool, and StarTeam's defect management
system such that web content bugs are automatically posted to the defect
tracking system. This robust integration is made possible through a clever
mix of COM and XML, using these technologies to tighten the development loop
provides enormous productivity gains for content managers and developers."
About Microsoft Windows DNA
The Microsoft Windows Distributed interNet Applications architecture is
Microsoft's framework for building a new generation of highly adaptable
business solutions that enable companies to fully exploit the benefits of
Microsoft's platform technologies. Using the Windows DNA model, customers can
build modern, scalable, n-tier business applications that can be delivered
over any network. Windows DNA applications can improve the flow of
information, are dynamic and flexible , and can be easily integrated with
existing systems and data. Because Windows DNA applications use deeply
integrated Windows platform services that work together, organizations can
focus on delivering business solutions rather than on being systems
integrators. For more information about Windows DNA, please visit the Web
site at microsoft.com.
About StarTeam 4.0 and Enterprise Suite
StarTeam, an integrated technical collaboration and software configuration
management product, is designed to significantly improve the productivity of
software development teams. StarTeam provides remote developers with the
ability to effectively manage and collaborate on enterprise-wide applications,
and enables access to projects via a Web browser. StarTeam reflects a true
client-server framework with its ability to inter-operate with most
development environments. StarTeam Enterprise Suite adds a number of
productivity components: (i) Task Management Component, (ii) Microsoft
Project Integration, (iii) Repository Customization (iv) StarDisk Windows
Explorer Integration, to integrate with the established work processes of
mature development organizations through.
About StarBase
StarBase Corporation offers a complete family of advanced Internet and
Intranet-based technical collaboration products for web site production,
e-commerce application development and software configuration management for
mission critical applications. StarBase products were designed to improve
development team productivity throughout the corporate enterprise over
internal networks or remotely on the Web. StarTeam has won several awards
including being named the 25th fastest growing ISV for Windows by Microsoft
and CMP Media in April 1999 and "Best of the Test Center" by InfoWorld in Jan.
1998. 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.
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.
StarBase and its product names are trademarks of StarBase Corporation.
All other product and company names herein are trademarks of their respective
owners.
SOURCE StarBase Corporation
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/CONTACT: Martha Ray, Public Relations, 714-445-4530, mray@starbase.com,
or Rendell Swart, Investor Relations, 714-445-4440, rswart@starbase.com, both
of StarBase Corporation; or Dodi Zirkle, Broker/Institutional Relations of
Continental Capital, 407-682-2001, dodi@insidewallstreet.com/
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