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Object Design Announces Technology Partnership With AltaVista Internet
Software ObjectStore Becomes First Database to Integrate With AltaVista's
Leading Search Engine
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Date: Tuesday, March 11, 1997
Source: PR Newswire
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BURLINGTON, Mass., March 10 /PRNewswire/ via Individual Inc. -- Object
Design, Inc. (Nasdaq: ODIS), the leading provider of object database
software for the Web, and AltaVista Internet Software, Inc., a subsidiary
of Digital Equipment Corporation (NYSE: DEC), today announced that
AltaVista has joined Object Design's Object Manager Developer Program.
Through this partnership, the two companies will integrate the AltaVista
Search Developer's Kit 97 with ObjectStore(R), Object Design's flagship
database. ObjectStore is the first database with which AltaVista is
integrating its popular search engine software.
Developers building high-performance, scaleable, content-rich Web
applications using the Object Design(R) ObjectStore database will now be
able to incorporate AltaVista's high-performance text indexing and search
functionality easily and quickly. The AltaVista Search Developer's Kit 97
for ObjectStore will enable developers to immediately index the text found
in any objects in ObjectStore and perform full text searches on them right
out of the box.
"We are excited to partner with Object Design to integrate our search
engine technology with ObjectStore," said Freddy Mini, vice president of
marketing at AltaVista. "Object Design is a leading player in the Internet
database market and its technology is a perfect fit with our AltaVista
Search Developer's Kit."
"Time to market with new Web applications is critical and thanks to our
partnerships with Internet technology leaders like AltaVista, we can offer
our customers a broad range of fully integrated components that plug and
play with ObjectStore," said Melissa Webster, vice president of marketing
at Object Design, Inc. "AltaVista's proven search engine technology will
greatly benefit our customers who need to build large text indexes for
their ObjectStore data and perform quick searches on that data."
About the AltaVista Search Developer's Kit 97
The AltaVista Search Developer's Kit 97 contains the tools and runtime
licenses developers need to create, demonstrate, pilot and implement an
AltaVista Search powered solution. The kit allows developers to build
solutions on their own systems or at a customer's site, eliminating the
need to rebuild, reload or reconfigure for production implementation.
About the Object Manager Developer Program
The Object Manager Developer Program makes it easy for industry-leading
Internet and multimedia vendors to integrate their Java and C++ class
libraries with ObjectStore. The program benefits ObjectStore application
developers by making available off-the-shelf, reusable components for
quickly and easily building sophisticated Web applications. Object Managers
are easy-to-build, extendible software modules integrated with ObjectStore
that let developers store, manage and perform functions on any type of
data.
About AltaVista
AltaVista Search is the most popular search technology on the Web, and
provides the most comprehensive and high-performance Internet search
service to end-users. Since its launch in December 1995, the AltaVista
Search Service (http://altavista.digital.com) has grown rapidly, with more
than five billion hits in its first year of service. Consistently ranked as
one of the most popular sites on the World Wide Web, the AltaVista Search
Service is the recipient of numerous awards worldwide, including PC
Computing's MVP Award as "Best Search Engine," Internet World magazine's
"Industry Award for Outstanding Service," the European Online Users Group
(EUROLUG) "Product of the Year," and the "Cool Search Engine of the Year"
award.
AltaVista OnSite Computing Solutions provide secure, simple and direct
access to information and people over the Internet and private intranets.
AltaVista Search, Directory, Tunnel, Firewall, Forum and Mail products give
users a competitive edge, enabling productive business to take place from
anywhere. Further information on AltaVista OnSite Computing is available at
http://altavista.software.digital.com, or by calling 800-336-7890.
About Object Design, Inc.
Object Design, Inc. (http://www.odi.com), the leader in object data
management software, develops and markets the ObjectStore database
management system and related tools. The company's products are used to
build and deploy Internet, intranet and other distributed computing
applications, and are designed to handle the data types and data
relationships found on the rapidly expanding World Wide Web. Headquartered
in Burlington, Mass., Object Design sells and supports its products through
branch offices across the U.S., international subsidiaries in the United
Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan, and a worldwide network of
distributors.
NOTE: Object Design, the Object Design logo, ObjectStore, Leadership by
Design and Object Exchange are registered trademarks of Object Design, Inc.
Object Manager and ObjectForms are trademarks of Object Design, Inc. All
other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. SOURCE Object
Design Inc.
/CONTACT: Luisa Zauli of Object Design, Inc., 617-674-5162, or
[email protected]; or Greg Peverill-Conti of Blanc & Otus, 617-225-9990, or
[email protected], for Object Design Inc.; or Chuck Malkiel of AltaVista,
508-486-2902, or [email protected]/ (ODIS DEC) CO: Object
Design Inc.; AltaVista Internet Software Inc.; Digital Equipment Corp. ST:
Massachusetts IN: CPR MLM SU: LIC CL-KF -- SFM003 -- 3007 03/10/97 09:02
EST http://www.prnewswire.com
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