STARBASE ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF STARTEAM 4.1; THIS LATEST VERSION OF
STARTEAM DELIVERS ENHANCED SCALABILITY AND INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH DATABASE Support
to Large Corporate Development Organizations
SANTA ANA, Calif., Jul 16, 1999 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- StarBase
Corporation (Nasdaq: SBAS), a leading provider of Internet and Intranet
basedtechnical collaboration products for web site application
production and software configuration management (SCM), announced today
the availability of StarTeam 4.1 and StarTeam 4.1 Enterprise Suite.
This updated version of StarTeam will provide improved support and
enhanced scalability necessary to large development organizations. The
new integration with IBM's DB2 and Informix's Dynamic Server delivers
the power of industrial strength databases to corporate development
teams. StarTeam 4.1 enhances its support for advanced web development
teams by integrating with leading application server solutions like Sun
System's NetDynamics and Haht Software's Haht Site. The new
integrations allow developers to further extend corporate information
technology (IT) resources by enabling the development of applications
that can take advantage of all corporate resources, effectively
lowering the cost of implementation and maintenance. Performance
enhancements to StarTeam 4.1 mean corporate users can more effectively
accommodate the very high levels of transactions common in today's
enterprise.
Michael Sly, technical manager at Reynolds and Reynolds stated "Our
teams are looking forward to the increased performance and support of
the application servers that are found in StarTeam 4.1. We foresee an
increase in the productivity of our development teams after
implementation; the tools, many of which were available in 4.0 will
help our team gain control over our projects and assist us in
delivering better quality applications, in less time. Primary for our
needs is the ability to collaborate, not just throughout the
enterprise, but across a diverse client server environment. We expect
StarTeam 4.1 to meet and exceed our corporate development
requirements."
Alan Kucheck, vice president of development at StarBase, stated
"StarTeam 4.1 is a significant upgrade for our users, a refinement of
many of the basic capabilities StarTeam users rely on. Frequently
invoked operations, as defined by our users, have been made more
accessible. Features like our View Merging tool and our command line
have been extended. Performance has been enhanced, particularly for
files large than 100MB, and the memory footprint has been reduced. Our
users provide great feedback and we have responded to many of their
suggestions in StarTeam 4.1."
StarTeam and the Enterprise Suite's collaborative features provide for
increased communication between business units, developers and outside
contributors through WebConnect, the StarTeam browser interface.
StarTeam is the first SCM solution to provide for the predictability of
theapplication delivery lifecyle and offer a unique foundation for
continuous process improvement. StarTeam enhances overall team
productivity through increased communication, reduces the costs of
expensive application projects by extending corporate resources, and
provides control and improved quality of business-critical
applications.
"StarTeam is an incredible tool for todays development environments"
stated William R. Stow III, chairman and chief executive officer of
StarBase. "The enhancements and integration's made to StarTeam are
based on feedback of our corporate clients and it's our goal to deliver
to them the bestsolution possible. StarTeam insures predictability to
the outcome of application development projects and immediately
increases the efficiency of development teams and expands the
availability of corporate resources. StarTeam 4.1,with significant
performance enhancements and increased server support, performs
outstanding under stress and volume that the larger development
environments place on configuration management solutions."
About StarTeam 4.1 StarTeam, an integrated technical collaboration and
software configuration management tool, is designed to significantly
improve the productivity of software development teams. StarTeam 4.1
delivers the integrations and server support to better manage the
requirements of large development environments. StarTeam provides
remote developers with the ability to effectively manage and
collaborate on enterprise-wide applications, and enables access
toprojects via a Web browser. StarTeam 4.1 features new and improved
functionality that aids software professionals and project managers in
getting more out of their development environment.
-- Enhanced View Compare/Merge
-- Enhanced Label Management
-- Advanced Query Interface
-- New Server Enhancements
-- Interface Enhancements
StarTeam 4.1 provides new integrations with the following integrated
development environments (IDE): HahtSite 3.1 & 4.0, MS Visual J++ 6.0,
Rational Rose 98, Mercury Test Director 5 and NetDynamics Studio 5.0.
These integration are in addition to the existing ones which include:
Microsoft Developer Studio & Visual Studio, Borland's DELPHI 3 & 4,
Symantec Visual Cafe, Powersoft PowerBuilder versions 5 & 6, Oracle
Developer/2000 v. 1.5and 2.1, SilverStream Designer v. 2.0, Allaire
ColdFusion Studio v. 3.1.1 & 4.0.1 and Premia CodeWright v. 5.3.
StarTeam 4.1 adds support for IBM DB2 and Informix database while
continuing to support the following RDBMS: Oracle 7.3, 8.x and 8I,
Sybase Adaptive Server, System 11 and SQL Anywhere, Microsoft SQL
Server 6.5 & 7.0 and Microsoft Access. Management believes StarTeam is
the only SCM system providing extensive support for the most popular,
robust and scaleable relational database systems in the market.
StarTeam 4.1, delivers an advanced repository management tool providing
the ability to verify repository integrity, upgrade the repository to
new releases, migrate the repository to a different database and export
the StarTeam database catalog to comma delimited files. StarTeam 4.1
also includes several general performance enhancements like a smaller
memory footprint (server & client), faster check in/out, faster client
connections, faster query executions and improved response for binary
files over 100MB.
StarTeam 4.1 Components -- Repository Customization: Allows technical
organizations to obtain the most out of their software configuration
management system and existing processes by allowing the development
organization to achieve their goalsof reducing time-to-market and
improving software quality. This functionality is available to all
StarTeam components including File, Change Request, Topics and Task.
-- Promotional Model: Through the use of Views and View Labels,
StarTeam 4.1 permits users to define promotional states and migrate
complete application configurations from one stage to the other of the
lifecycle.
StarTeam 4.1 Enterprise Suite Components -- Virtual Meeting: StarTeam
extends the collaboration functionality of StarTeam to now include a
transparent interface to Microsoft's NetMeeting.
-- Task Management Component: Provides the ability to implement process
management without compromising productivity.
-- Microsoft Project Integration: Seamless integration with Microsoft
Project allows project managers to automatically obtain project status
and updates via repository synchronization, allowing the sharing of
information between StarTeam 4.1 and MS Project.
-- New Standalone StarDisk: StarTeam 4.1 now runs as an independent
StarTeam client, without requiring the need of a StarTeam Windows
client installation, but continues to deliver unobtrusive version
control to software engineers and ease of use for less technical team
members.
Pricing and Availability Pricing begins at $799 per client and $2,499
for the StarTeam Virtual Team Server. StarTeam Enterprise Suite is
available and includes StarTeam 4.1 and the four productivity
components (Task Management; Repository Customization; StarDisk and
Microsoft Project Integration), priced at $1,299 for the client and $4,
499 for the server. StarDisk can be purchased separately at $399.
StarTeam 4.1 is available today through our direct sales force
reachable by phone at 714-445-4400 or sales@starbase.com.
System Requirements
Microsoft Windows 95, 98 or NT 4.0 or higher
UNIX (Universal Edition)
Java Virtual Machine (JVM) version 1.1 or later
About Reynolds and Reynolds Reynolds and Reynolds, with headquarters in
Dayton, Ohio, is a leading provider of integrated information
management systems and related value-added services to automotive and
general business markets. The company reported revenues of about $1.5
billion for the 12 months ended March 31, 1999. For more information on
Reynolds and Reynolds, call The Reynolds and Reynolds Information
Hotline at 1-888-4REYREY.
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 being named the 25th fastest growing ISV for
Windows by Microsoft and CMP Media in April 1999, 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 asHollywood
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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