Chili!Soft Empowers Apache and O'Reilly Web Servers With ASP (fwd)

Chili!Soft Empowers Apache and O'Reilly Web Servers With ASP Monday, January 11, 1999 09:30 AM Mail this article to a friend new! BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 11, 1999-- Chili!ASP(tm) Now Extends Active Server Pages Support to Six 3rd Party Web Servers for Microsoft(R) Windows NT(R) Chili!Soft(tm), Inc. (http://www.chilisoft.com) the pioneer of multi-platform Active Server Pages (ASP) -- the mainstream Web application platform -- today announced shipment of Chili!ASP(tm) for the Apache HTTP Server and the O'Reilly WebSite Professional server. With Chili!ASP, Apache and O'Reilly developers can deploy ASP applications on Microsoft(R) Windows NT(R)-compatible versions of both servers for the first time. Apache and O'Reilly account for more than 50% of the Web servers in use on the Internet, according to some industry sources. Chili!ASP support for the popular Apache Web server provides developers with the server customization benefits of Apache and access to the rich development tools and off-the-shelf components for building ASP applications. In just two years, ASP has become a dominant force in Web development with more than half a million users. It enhances the productivity of a Web development team by combining popular scripting languages, COM (Component Object Model) and Java objects, HTML and powerful 3rd party development tools to construct Web-based applications. Chili!ASP is the only Web application server to enable ASP-based applications to run on multiple Web servers and operating systems. "By bringing ASP support to Apache and O'Reilly, we're giving corporations and developers another reason to standardize on ASP across the enterprise," said Charles Crystle, founder and chief technology officer of Chili!Soft. "Chili!ASP for Apache and O'Reilly further enables the number and types of organizations that can now assign programmers of all skill levels to build Web applications that run on multiple server platforms." Product Availability Chili!ASP is available immediately for Apache HTTP Server v1.3.3 and O'Reilly Website Pro v2.0 running on Microsoft Windows NT. Both are priced at $995 per server. Chili!ASP for the Microsoft Windows NT operating system also supports Netscape's FastTrack and Enterprise Servers on Windows NT 4.0 and Sun Solaris, and Lotus Domino Go Web Server on Windows NT 4.0. All versions of the software are available for customers to download at http://www.chilisoft.com. About ASP Active Server Pages (ASP) is an open Web application platform that combines server scripting with custom server components to create browser-independent Web solutions and publish legacy databases to the Web. There are more than 500,000 ASP developers, over 500 companies producing ASP components and applications, and approximately 25,000 public Web sites using ASP. Industry-leading Web development tools such as Macromedia Dreamweaver(tm) (Nasdaq:MACR), Microsoft Visual InterDev(tm) and FrontPage(tm) (Nasdaq:MSFT), Elemental Drumbeat(tm), NetObjects ScriptBuilder(tm), and Sybase PowerSite(tm) (Nasdaq:SYBS) support ASP. About Chili!ASP Chili!ASP enables ASP on Netscape (Nasdaq:NSCP), Lotus and other Web servers for Microsoft Windows NT and Sun Solaris (Nasdaq:SUNW), and soon IBM AIX (NYSE:IBM), making it the first multi-platform Web application environment based on Active Server Pages architecture. Chili!ASP is compatible with databases from Oracle(R) (Nasdaq:ORCL), Informix(R) (Nasdaq:IFMX), Sybase, IBM, and Computer Associates (NYSE:CA). About Chili!Soft Chili!Soft, Inc. is a privately held, pioneer provider of enabling technologies and applications for Active Server Pages (ASP), the leading Web application platform. Chili!Soft products include Chili!ASP, which enables ASP applications on Windows NT and UNIX in heterogeneous computing environments. Chili!Soft was founded in 1994 with headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. For more information about the company, please visit the Chili!Soft Web site at http://www.chilisoft.com or call 888/290-8346. Chili!Soft and Chili!ASP are trademarks of Chili!Soft,Inc. All other products mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective companies. Features and specifications are subject to change. CONTACT: Chili!Soft, Inc. Brad Stevens, 425/372-1547 brads@chilisoft.com Quote for referenced ticker symbols: SYBS, SUNW, ORCL, NSCP, MSFT, MACR, IFMX, IBM, CA © 1999, Business Wire -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net