To: Captain Hook who wrote (470 ) 3/11/1999 5:40:00 PM From: Joe King Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1502
NEWS of sale to International Internet Solution Provider!! by: Greensticks (18/M/Los Angeles, CA) 2599 of 2615 Leading Internet Solution Provider Standardizes on StarBase Development Solution to Manage All Web Development Efforts The Internet Solution Purchases Initial 100 Product Licenses To Begin Adoption Within e-Commerce Division SANTA ANA, Calif. - March 11, 1999 - 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), today announced that The Internet Solution (IS), South Africa's premier Internet solution provider, has entered into an agreement to purchase an initial 100 product licenses of the recently released StarTeam 4.0 Enterprise Suite. As a result of the accelerated growth in business that IS is experiencing, this agreement provides for additional future purchases of StarTeam product license packs. William R. Stow III, chairman and chief executive officer of StarBase stated, "Development of web and e-Commerce applications demands solutions that are built on the latest industry standards and designed to support emerging market trends. StarTeam is such an application, and is reaping the benefits of bringing innovative solutions and functional power into a market that is otherwise poorly served by older products. These aging tools have been re-engineered in a patch work approach to attempt to address critical new issues that did not exist when these products were designed. This is at best a poor solution that will deteriorate as market demands increase. StarBase's innovative technology has given us a competitive advantage that is accelerating, making StarTeam the tool of choice for supporting the lifecycle of web and e-Commerce applications. As StarBase continues to bring specialized lifecycle support into this emerging market, our leadership will further solidify." Larry Borowitz, e-Commerce production executive at The Internet Solution stated, "After careful evaluation, and the detailed assessment of several software management solutions, which included PVCS (Merant) and MKS (MKS), we found that StarBase offered us a total solution; one that best met our needs for the management and control of our development efforts today, while providing us with the tools to meet our future development needs. IS has consistently led the industry through the development of cutting edge solutions that have enabled the emergence of the Web as a business tool. Because of our rapid growth and dependency on leading edge technology, we required a product that could perform optimally for us today, and into the future. The integrated architecture and the simplicity of the product are two defining reasons why we chose StarTeam." IS's implementation plans for StarTeam 4.0 and StarTeam Enterprise Suite are expected to deliver enhanced enterprise and team productivity to a rapidly expanding web development team, thereby reducing development time and lowering the cost of expensive customer application projects, while improving the quality and overall control of their e-Commerce applications. The e-Commerce division of IS will deploy StarTeam across the entire enterprise, beginning with pilot projects, then growing in scope and use within the entire development line of business. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------