| PLANO, Texas, January 24, 2000 - Sterling Software,
Inc.’s (SSW-NYSE) Application Development Group, today announced a strategic alliance
with Secant Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of advanced application server software
technology, to provide the industry’s first end-to-end solution for developing
today’s most scalable and reliable e-business applications. Sterling Software and
Secant Technologies will work together to provide their mutual customers the most
comprehensive support for the Java 2 platform with the goal of reducing development time.
COOL:Joe, Sterling Software’s latest application development tool will integrate with
Secant Extreme Enterprise Server for EJB, to offer customers the fastest way to develop
and deploy distributed applications using Java and Enterprise JavaBeans technology. "We are extremely pleased to have Sterling Software as a partner,"
said John Schwalm, chief executive officer, Secant Technologies. "The combination of
Sterling Software’s EJB development tool, COOL:Joe, and Secant Extreme Enterprise
Server for EJB allows developers to rapidly build enterprise-class, distributed e-business
applications, while providing the portability and flexibility our customers need to
respond to today’s fast changing business requirements."
Enterprise JavaBeans technology, a server-side component
architecture that simplifies the development of distributed enterprise applications, is
seeing widespread acceptance. Secant Extreme Enterprise Server for EJB, a proven technical
leader in the application server market, represents the industry’s best platform for
reducing development time and providing high performance, while implementing true support
of open standards and interoperability when developing EJB applications. COOL:Joe is a
model-based development tool targeted at delivering Enterprise JavaBeans, which uniquely
combines component modeling, management and implementation. Together COOL:Joe and Secant
Extreme Enterprise Server for EJB provide a development and deployment environment that
insulates developers from complex technologies and enables them to focus on developing
business logic, the key to providing business with a competitive advantage.
"The powerful combination of COOL:Joe for EJB
development and Secant Extreme Enterprise Server for EJB provides our customers with an
end-to-end solution for delivering distributed systems," said Mike Jones, director of
enterprise Java solutions for Sterling Software. "We’re very excited about this
alliance with Secant Technologies, which will allow us to further leverage COOL:Joe and
the Java platform into the enterprise space."
In addition to integrating their respective technologies,
Sterling Software and Secant Technologies have formed a strategic alliance in which the
sales forces of both companies are empowered to share leads for the other company’s
products. "By establishing a collaborative sales channel, customers now have a highly
efficient means of acquiring the combined Sterling Software and Secant Technologies
Products," said Jones.
About COOL:Joe
COOL:Joe is an Enterprise JavaBeans development environment seamlessly integrated with
architecture design and component modeling capabilities. Java development teams will now
be able to architect, create, deploy and manage reliable and scalable enterprise
applications using Enterprise JavaBeans. Using COOL:Joe’s built-in smart features,
developers can generate EJBs automatically from component specifications, create, test and
debug business logic, and deploy to an application server. Developing distributed systems
is easy because COOL:Joe automatically generates the EJB infrastructure code and frees the
developers to concentrate on business logic. COOL:Joe makes developing server-side Java
Objects for the Enterprise faster than ever before. For more information on
COOL:Joe, please visit http://www.sterling.com/cooljoe.
About Secant Extreme Enterprise Server for EJB
Secant Extreme Enterprise Server for EJB provides a complete environment for assembling,
deploying and maintaining scalable, multi-tier e-Business systems. The product is based on
Secant’s time-tested and proven Object Transaction Monitor and award-winning object
persistence technology. Secant Extreme Enterprise Server includes superior implementations
of Java2 Enterprise Edition technologies that provide distributed transactions, security,
persistence, events, concurrency control, Servlets, Java Server Pages, and integration
with legacy systems. In addition, a complete server management system is built-in to the
product, providing automatic server fail-over, load balancing, server clustering and
server monitoring.
About Sterling Software
Sterling Software is a leading provider of software and services for the application
development, business intelligence, information management, storage management, network
management, VM systems management, and federal systems markets. The company is one of the
20 largest independent software companies in the world. Headquartered in Dallas, Sterling
Software has a worldwide installed base of more than 20,000 customer sites and 3,700
employees in 90 offices worldwide. For more information on Sterling Software, visit the
company’s Web site at http://www.sterling.com.
About Secant Technologies
Secant Technologies, Inc., provides expert solutions to extreme e-Business problems. With
emphasis on object-oriented and distributed computing technologies, Secant provides the
complete infrastructure and tools for building scalable, enterprise caliber, e-Business
solutions. Organizations that have recognized business benefits through the use of
Secant’s products include Lockheed-Martin; Siemens; Deutsche Bank; i2 Technologies;
Detroit Edison; Triton Container and Susquehanna Partners. Founded in 1995, Secant
Technologies has headquarters in Cleveland and offices in Boulder, Colo. and San
Francisco. Additional information is available on the Web at http://www.secant.com.
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