[announce] OASIS Member News: Systinet Announces OEM Edition of WebServices Platform

[Ian Bruce <ian@systinet.com>]

SYSTINET ANNOUNCES WASP 4.0 OEM EDITION, DESIGNED FOR INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE
VENDORS AND OEMS


Mercator, Interwoven among OEM clients to adopt Systinet WASP technology,
company expects OEMs to lead rapid adoption through 2003



CAMBRIDGE, Mass, October 15, 2002 -- Systinet today announced a strategic
OEM initiative which includes products and services designed to make it easy
for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and Independent Software Vendors
(ISVs) to benefit from Web services technology.  As part of this initiative,
Systinet announced a new version of its WASP Web services product suite,
WASP OEM Edition.  Leading software companies such as Interwoven and
Mercator have chosen Systinet WASP to power Web services within their own
products because WASP is platform independent, easy to embed, and can be
quickly branded and customized.  Web services provide significant
competitive advantages for OEMs and ISVs by making their products far easier
to integrate, more flexible, and more cost effective to deploy and manage.

WASP OEM Edition is an extension of Systinet’s popular WASP Suite of
products and features enhanced customization capabilities, APIs and
documentation support. Systinet has also created pricing and licensing
options designed to accommodate the unique business models of OEMs and ISVs.
In addition, WASP OEM Edition is free for evaluation and testing, and can be
downloaded from Systinet’s web site at www.systinet.com.

Roman Stanek, founder and CEO of Systinet, said: “Enterprise IT
organizations are rapidly deploying Web services—and these same IT
organizations are now demanding that their vendors embrace Web services as
well.  We predict that the majority of OEMs and ISVs will Web service-enable
their products by the end of 2003. Leading software companies like Mercator
and Interwoven have already taken this step. The same functionality in WASP
that has been a strength in the enterprise end-user market – particularly
platform independence, the industry’s only support for C++ and Java, and
extensive customization capabilities – makes Systinet a perfect solution for
OEMs.”

Dan Sholler, Vice President, Meta Group, said: "This is the right business
strategy for a company like Systinet to take because it plays to the
company's product strengths. Companies that have the advantage of being
application server neutral and having both a Java and C++ solution, and that
have products that have been designed to be easily customized and embedded,
will be successful in this market. Meta Group expects the adoption of Web
services among ISVs and OEMs to remain strong through 2003."

David Linthicum, Mercator’s executive vice president and CTO, said,   “We
chose Systinet for its performance, interoperability, security and
management. It is important to us that Systinet is platform independent.
Moreover, the Systinet team worked closely with us to customize a solution
for Mercator. We believe that by combining Web services with Mercator’s
powerful integration capabilities, organizations will be able to quickly and
cost-effectively connect and configure their existing business systems
without altering these systems or requiring expensive and time-consuming
integration projects.”
Kevin Cochrane, VP Product Management, Interwoven, said: “As nearly 100
installed customers have realized, the new Interwoven 5 platform enables
customers to easily embed content management and content distribution
services in their enterprise applications and enterprise portals. Systinet
provides what we need: a high-performance, platform-independent Web services
solution for Java and C++, highly reliable and secure technology, and
excellent support. Systinet’s products are also easy to customize and embed.
We look forward to working together.”
The Systinet WASP suite of products is a complete solution for building,
deploying, securing and managing Web services.  Systinet WASP Server for
Java is an industrial-strength Web services runtime environment that fully
supports industry standards, including SOAP 1.1, SOAP 1.2, and WSDL 1.1.
WASP Server for Java was described as “the best and most sophisticated Web
services offering for Java” by eWeek in June 2002.




Ian Bruce
Systinet Corporation
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USA

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