Year: 2000

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Aestiva First To Market With “Server-Jumping”

Torrance, Calif. Aestiva announced this week a new scaling technology known
as “server-jumping.” An innovation of Aestiva’s Webputing technology team,
server-jumping enables dynamic sites to span multiple computers in support
of hundreds of thousands of users in the same way “static” sites have
historically been able to do.

Aestiva insiders familiar with alternative technologies claim
server-jumping is a breakthrough that could shake up the high-end computing
market.

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TWAIN ANNOUNCES OVER 2500 DEVELOPER DOWNLOADS OF NEW VERSION OF INDUSTRY
STANDARD FOR MACINTOSH PLATFORM

New version of image acquisition standard provides Mac developers access to
latest features of digital cameras and scanners

BOULDER CREEK, Calif. – May 10, 2000 – The TWAIN Working Group today
announced that the TWAIN Toolkit for Mac, targeted at developers, has
received almost 3000 downloads since its release in February.

May 10, 2000

Macintosh developer Alco Blom and Palm developer Rene Laterveer announced
today the releases of Web Confidential 2.0 for Mac and the introduction of
Web Confidential for Palm 1.0.

Web Confidential for Palm is supplied with a Macintosh Conduit, which
synchronizes data between Macintosh and Palm.

Although widely imitated, Web Confidential is still the most powerful
password manager on the Mac today and is currently the only password
manager which is able to HotSync with a Palm device using a Macintosh
Conduit.

Like the Macintosh version, your data on the Palm handh

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DEVELOPER CENTRAL RETURNS TO WWDC 2000
EXHIBIT SPACE IS PACKED AND SOLD OUT!

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA — May 10, 2000 — Xplain Custom Services today
announced that Developer Central, the developer showcase co-sponsored by
Apple Developer Connection and MacTech Magazine, is sold out for Apple’s
Worldwide Developers Conference being held next week.

Developer Central is the de facto presence for developer tools, services
and utilities, is present at shows around the globe.

UserLand Submits SOAP 1.1 to World Wide Web Consortium

BURLINGAME, Calif., May 9 /PRNewswire/ — UserLand Software, Ariba (Nasdaq:
ARBA), Commerce One (Nasdaq: CMRC), Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE:
CPQ), Developmentor, Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HWP), IBM (NYSE: IBM),
IONA Technologies (Nasdaq: IONA), Lotus Development Corporation (NYSE:
IBM), Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT), SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today
jointly proposed to the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) a new protocol
called the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) that will allow
revolutionary new applications connecti