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<p>"Every well-designed web site or mission critical server should have a<br />
Rebound!," said Eric Zelenka, product manager for WebSTAR. "Our WebSTAR<br />
customers are using Rebound! as an essential part of their overall server<br />
reliability strategy, addressing one aspect of back-end fault tolerance.<br />
Rebound! is inexpensive enough that no server should be without one."</p>
<p>"The Macintosh Server G3 is built on the strength of the PowerPC G3<br />
microprocessor, delivering twice the network performance of previous Apple<br />
server products," said Stan Ng, Apple Computer product manager. "Rebound!<br />
provides a great tool for increased server reliability. Its simple, yet<br />
powerful, capabilities fit extremely well with the ease of use and<br />
flexibility of Apple's new G3 servers."</p>
<p>Rebound! is World-Ready</p>
<p>Sophisticated Circuits has been refining its proven Server Restart Option<br />
(SRO) technology since January of 1997, however, Rebound! is the first<br />
product in Sophisticated Circuits' PowerKey family of products to be<br />
available to all international users. Rebound! is powered by the ADB rather<br />
than the wall current, allowing it to work in any part of the world,<br />
regardless of line voltage. Rebound! is fully CE compliant and FCC<br />
approved.</p>
<p>"Rebound! brings PowerKey Pro's Server Restart Option to markets where that<br />
product is not yet available, making it a very attractive reliability tool<br />
for international users," said Jonathan Feinstein of Sophisticated<br />
Circuits.</p>
<p>How Rebound! Works</p>
<p>Rebound!'s patent-pending technology starts working immediately and<br />
constantly watches the operating system by communicating with the OS<br />
itself. An update to the Rebound! Extension software is also being released<br />
today (see related release dated 6.29.98). The Rebound! Extension software<br />
sends a ping to the Rebound! device, which resets its timer at regular<br />
intervals. Once set, this timer starts counting down to zero. As long as<br />
the operating system is running, the Rebound! Extension software will<br />
continue to reset the timer so it never actually reaches zero. If, however,<br />
the system freezes or crashes, the timer will naturally expire and Rebound!<br />
will send a command-control-power-on keyboard restart sequence. Rebound!<br />
uses a background application, rather than a driver, allowing the widest<br />
range of potential freezes and crashes to be detected.</p>
<p>"This has to be one of the coolest things I have seen," said John<br />
Bertagnolli from US West Dex in Aurora Colorado. "I am running some batch<br />
processes and have had to deal with network hangs by babysitting six<br />
machines about 16 hours a day. Now I have the Rebound!s installed, and a<br />
startup application that pages me whenever the machine restarts, which<br />
means I only have to deal with the machines whenever I get a page. I am<br />
able to get so much more accomplished."</p>
<p>Fully scriptable, Rebound! software can receive and respond to AppleEvents.<br />
Rebound! has Apple Guide online help built-in. The market-leader for Mac<br />
auto restart devices, Sophisticated Circuits has been in the Macintosh<br />
business since 1984 and has a tremendous amount of support from the<br />
developer community, allowing Sophisticated Circuits to be the only company<br />
offering multiple levels of protection and application-level crash<br />
detection.</p>
<p>Only Restart Device with Application-Level Support</p>
<p>In addition to watching the operating system, Rebound!, like its sibling<br />
PowerKey Pro, can also watch server applications with sophisticated<br />
application-level crash detection. Sophisticated Circuits has created an<br />
Application Programming Interface (API) which software developers use to<br />
support Rebound! and PowerKey Pro in their products. A product with<br />
Rebound! support periodically sets a timer in the Rebound! software, in<br />
much the same way that the Rebound! software sets a timer in the hardware.<br />
Rebound! includes patent-pending technology which allows it to<br />
simultaneously monitor multiple applications, ensuring each application is<br />
functioning the way the developer intended. Rebound! keeps separate timers<br />
for each application, and if any application stops responding, Rebound! can<br />
restart the system.</p>
<p>"Developers immediately saw the advantage of providing their own<br />
'heartbeat,'" Feinstein explained. "Each developer knows the workings of<br />
their software better than anyone on the outside ever could. By relying on<br />
status information provided from within the running applications, we can be<br />
sure that Rebound! does not confuse a heavily loaded server for a crashed<br />
machine."</p>
<p>Vendors with software supporting this technology include: StarNine<br />
Technologies, Inc.; Maxum Development Corp.; Imagina, Inc.; Purity<br />
Software, Inc.; Stalker Software, Inc.; Spider Island Software; MDG<br />
Computer Services, Inc.; Social Engineering Inc.; and Fog City Software. We<br />
expect a number of companies to announce support for this technology in the<br />
near future.</p>
<p>"Rebound! is quite simply the most elegant tool available for increasing<br />
your server's reliability," stated Nathan Nunn, president of Purity<br />
Software. "I highly recommend this product for use with any Mac OS-based<br />
server -- especially when you consider how much money it saves you each and<br />
every time your server could potentially go down for hours on end without<br />
it."</p>
<p>Pricing and Availability<br />
Rebound! is priced at $99US and is available today directly from<br />
Sophisticated Circuits by calling 800/769-3773, +425/485-7979, or accessing<br />
the Web site at (<a href="http://www.sophisticated.com/" title="http://www.sophisticated.com/">http://www.sophisticated.com/</a>). A Crash Test Application<br />
is also available to test the functionality of the set-up. Special volume<br />
and dealer pricing is available by contacting Sophisticated Circuits.</p>
<p>About Sophisticated Circuits</p>
<p>Founded in 1984, Sophisticated Circuits, Inc. is a privately held<br />
corporation located in Bothell, Wash. Sophisticated Circuits, Inc. develops<br />
elegant, highly integrated hardware/software tools which make the lives of<br />
computer professionals easier by enhancing the reliability, remote access<br />
and automation capabilities of servers and personal computers. Further<br />
information on Sophisticated Circuits may be obtained by accessing<br />
Sophisticated Circuits' Web site at (<a href="http://www.sophisticated.com/" title="http://www.sophisticated.com/">http://www.sophisticated.com/</a>),<br />
calling 800/769-3773, or sending <a href="mailto:info@sophisticated.com" title="mailto:info@sophisticated.com">mailto:info@sophisticated.com</a>.<br />
International inquiries can also reach Sophisticated Circuits by calling<br />
+425/485-7979, or by sending a fax to +425/485-7172.</p>
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