Starbase Announces Partnership With SilverStream Software; Integrated Best-Of-Breed Solution Accelerates Delivery of Web Applications July 6, 2000 08:46 AM Eastern Time SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 6, 2000--Starbase Corp. SBAS , the leading provider of collaboration products for the creation and management of integrated code and content eBusiness applications, Thursday announced a strategic partnership with SilverStream Software Inc. SSSW , The eBusiness Platform Company.
The alliance is designed to deliver to corporations engaged in eBusiness initiatives a best-of-breed integration strategy, increasing the speed of deployment, control and management of sophisticated HTML and Java-based Web applications.
"SilverStream delivers a proven, scalable and reliable environment that accelerates customer success," said Bill Critch, director of alliances, SilverStream Software. "The combination of SilverStream and Starbase allows companies to apply a best practices strategy throughout their entire Web application development and deployment projects."
"Our partnership with SilverStream has resulted in the integration of two industry leading products into a powerful solution for many of our customers," stated James Smith, executive vice president Customer Group of Starbase. "SilverStream's application server is the leading Java and HTML environment for creating Web-based applications, and Starbase's StarTeam provides a controlled environment that increases development productivity and team collaboration. We currently have customers who are using that combined solution to ease and accelerate the delivery of Web applications."
Incware Corp., a member of Starbase's eTeam partnership program and certified SilverStream trainer/VAR, completed implementation of a comprehensive integrated software development management solution that incorporated the StarTeam and SilverStream Designer solution for Food Services of America.
"Customers that are turning to the Internet and Java to help speed development processes benefit from integrations similar to the one we developed between SilverStream's Designer and Starbase's StarTeam," stated Ken Nelson, vice president of products at Incware. "To address the remote development and management requirements of Food Services, we developed an integration that enabled remote development teams to access the StarTeam central repository through the Java application server's IDE."
"StarTeam's collaborative features and integrated configuration management tools facilitated faster Web application development without sacrificing the quality that our customer needed," Nelson continued.
Starbase's StarTeam provides enterprises collaborative configuration management, version control, defect tracking and knowledge sharing, in a single and easy-to-use interface. The Starbase solution features state-of-the-art application management of integrated code and content creation, review, management, distribution, and archival capabilities.
StarTeam's robust collaboration features and central repository are critical components to a Web development management system. StarTeam's remote access capability delivers an integrated and streamlined development environment critical to successful eBusiness applications. StarTeam's scalability in managing the development of large volumes of content and objects associated with eBusiness applications make it the best-of-breed solution for the vast majority of B2B and B2C applications.
About SilverStream
SilverStream Software Inc., The eBusiness Platform Company, delivers software and services that enable businesses to create, deploy and manage eBusiness applications. Used in corporations throughout the world, SilverStream Software products are changing the way business is being conducted in Global 2000 companies such as ARCO, Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, Chevron, and the Chicago Stock Exchange. Visit SilverStream at silverstream.com.
About Incware
Incware Corp. specializes in the training and consulting of distributed application technologies. Incware Corp. partners with industry leading companies to provide the best-of-breed tools for its customers. Incware combines these tools with its own "Technology Infusion." Technology Infusion is the combination of Technical Training, Expert Mentoring, and Knowledge Consulting. www.incware.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 more than 1,300 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 has headquarters 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 Corp. All other product and company names herein are trademarks of their respective owners.
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.
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