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(PR NEWSWIRE) StarBase Unveils StarTeam.com - a Web Site and E-Commerce Pr
StarBase Unveils StarTeam.com - a Web Site and E-Commerce Production Control
Solution
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.
SOURCE StarBase Corporation
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/CONTACT: Eric Appell, Dir. of Corporate Development, 714-445-4503,
eappell@starbase.com; or Rendell Swart, Investor Relations, 714-445-4440,
rswart@starbase.com, both of StarBase Corporation; or Dodi Zirkle of
Continental Capital, Broker/Institutional Relations, 407-682-2001,
dodi@insidewallstreet.com, for StarBase Corporation/ |
