Testimonials

ISV's with 100% Pure Java^TM Certified Products Applaud Java^TM Technology!

George Lo, Adaptivity	"With JavaTM technology, we built platform independent distributed software solutions quickly and easily. For our customers, it doesn't matter what type of machines they have, as long as a Java runtime virtual machine* is available, our software can be deployed."
James P. Lennane, bid&ask, Inc.	"Java technology was at the core of bidnask.com since the Product Trading Floor -- where the market sets prices through a realtime consumer/vendor negotiation process -- was first conceptualized. Only Java technology allows us to "push" information to our clients within 2 seconds of any transaction move. Our development team, which has worked together nearly 30 years, finds Java technology to be one of the most exciting systems tools they've dealt with."
Michael Lehman, Cereus Design Corp.	"I've been developing programmer tools for nearly 30 years. In that time I've seen many valiant efforts to reach the goal of universal portability. I believe that Java technology is finally a solution that can (and will) succeed. It has reduced our development times by a factor of at least 5 and increased the quality of our products dramatically due to the robust nature of the Java language and especially the Java platform. I'm sold on the Java platform as a significant leap forward in the quest for increased productivity and higher quality."
Tim McDonald, Digital Knowledge Assets	"All Digital Knowledge Assets' (dka) knowledge tools and capabilities are written to the 100% Pure Java certification requirements. This choice was made in response to several dka technology requirements: 1) a commitment to open solutions, 2) flexibility through objects and 3) no client-side software installation. dka's use of Java technology allows our users to access dka knowledge tools and capabilities from any Java technology-enabled web browser in the world."
Len Kain, ImaginOn, Inc.	"The advantage that Java technology brings to ImaginOn is more than just "Write Once, Run AnywhereTM." That is true, we have a single code base that works on many platforms and operating systems. However, the cost of development for any individual platform is significantly lower with Java technology. The Java programming language is less complicated, more reliable, and of course, more portable than any other software language available. Parts of one product are, literally, cut and pasted into another, without bugs. This reduces the cost of development substantially and reduces time to market resulting in our ability to give the customer significantly better value than ever before."
Reno Marioni, Infoscape, Inc.	"Our customers are already reaping the benefits of using our Java technology-based Fresco products to not only assemble sophisticated database applications in record time but also to deploy these applications instantly and seamlessly to all major computing platforms. Customers are already beginning to realize significant return on investment with Fresco and Java technology. Infoscape nor our customers could have done this with any other language except for Java technology. Thanks to Sun creating yet another revolution in network computing."
Stan Wang, Infospace, Inc.	"While companies are constructing data marts and data warehouses to gain insight into their business, they are also looking for a way to distribute that information to an expanding community of end users. Increasingly, these companies are finding that the Web and corporate intranet provide the perfect medium for delivery and Java platform the perfect mechanism. Infospace's 100% Pure Java-certified solutions, SpaceSQL and SpaceOLAP, provide these companies with a full-featured, platform independent solution for tapping virtually any database and analyzing and publishing their data, all within a web browser."
Simon Arnison, Innotech Multimedia Corporation	"Developing NetResults to the 100% Pure Java certification requirements provided Innotech with several advantages over using another language. The ability to focus Innotech's development resources on advancing the product for just one platform provides us with a faster time to market for new features and versions. In terms of the functionality of the language, Innotech's development team took advantage of the efficiencies Java technology provides developers with its high level access to threads and network services. This allowed us to build an advanced feature set into NetResults such as cascading searches and load balancing," said Simon Arnison, chief technology officer of Innotech."
Erno Hempel, intraWeb Information Technologies GmbH	"The existence of Java technology has been crucial to the development of our WebKiosk-1 systems; in fact it is the very reason our kiosk system is innovative and is such an improvement on traditional kiosk systems. We have used Java technology to replace the costly and maintenance-intensive PC-based kiosks. Java technology allows us to offer our customers groundbreaking technology, to improve their businesses, while ensuring that they are being offered the most cost effective solution possible. For us, this is unique selling point when talking to our customers, and has proved to be a highly successful and useful one."
Albert Lu, IQ Net	"Our customers in the brokage firms have a combination of UNIX and Windows computers. With Java technology, we can provide a product that can run on both systems with the same look and functionalities. It greatly reduce our development time and our customers are very happy."
Michael Gaiss, IQ Software Corporation.	"We are strategically aligning our future Internet development activities around the Java platform because it enables us to deliver what our customers are demanding: a platform independent Web reporting solution that is scalable across the enterprise."
Sharon Kroo, MerzCom	"MerzCom is using Java technology to deliver leading edge information visualization and personalization solutions to a variety of applications. Our first product, MerzScope, visually maps web content to enable more effective web navigation by the surfer. MerzScope could not have been developed without Java technology, whose rich APIs, and platform independence allowed us to quickly bring to market a highly innovative award winning product."
Ketan Kotak, NetAccent	"The ubiquity of the Internet is virtually wasted without a platform which allows applications to utilize the reach of Internet to write ubiquitous applications! That's where Java technology comes into the picture for us. We set out harness to power of Java platform (not just the language) to make probably the most commonly used tool by home and business users, the E-Mail or as Sun puts it "The Next Killer Application!" Our customers realize the benefits of a platform independent, standards based, light weight and universally accessible messaging solution for them and their clients. Finally the world of computing is moving in the right direction -- to the Networks and Java technology is an indispensible enabler in that process."
Heather Rose, Netmosphere	"Netmosphere provides coordination software to manage complex and dynamic projects effectively, to either reduce costs or to deliver results early. For users, our applications are as simple to install as browsing a web page. We use 100% Pure Java certification to give our customers the best of secure data management, convenient network access, and interative desktop applications."
Bruce Coleman, Open Horizon, Inc.	"Java platform ideally supports applications that leverage the Internet. Open Horizon selected Java technology to build our next generation product -- Ambrosia, a middleware solution that brings mission-critical services to the Java platform. Ambrosia provides a complete platform for building applications that must communicate business event information over the Internet or intranets. Ambrosia delivers real-time event notification via a secure, reliable infrastructure based on a publish/subscribe messaging engine. The product provides application and legacy interoperability through interfaces for 100% Pure Java-certified Java code, C/C++, and CORBA, and delivers mission-critical services including comprehensive security, guaranteed delivery, transaction support, and centralized administration. Open Horizon has found Java the most productive language for complex applications. Java technology is ideally suited for building object-based business applications running on the Internet and intranets. Java hides many of the arduous tasks (pointers, garbage collection, etc.) exposed in other languages. This substantially reduces our time to market, improves the quality of our code and permits flexibility in adding new features. Our customers have used the Java platform and Ambrosia to accelerate development. For example, a billion-dollar healthcare vendor finished an application interoperability framework in ten days with two people after a team of five spent a year trying to build their own solution. Open Horizon customers like the ability to write a single application that will run anywhere. An international financial organization's derivative trading application uses Ambrosia to provide real-time, secure information between processes running on a variety of platforms, from Sun enterprise servers to PCs and Macs. Customers also benefit from the ability to instantly build Internet front ends to legacy databases. A system integrator built an application that permits businesses to access parts retailers, creating new business opportunities for the retailers. The system allows hundreds of retailers to swap inventory over the Internet, multiplying their ability to offer solutions and turn inventory faster."
Mike Stevens, Persoft, Inc.	"Java technology is key in our new Persona, web-to-host product line. The use of the Java platform has enabled Persoft to deliver advanced capabilities to the desktop without the typical overhead of administration. In addition, the use of Java technology has eliminated risk for our customers who are looking for a solution that supports their current environment as well as the new technologies they are evaluating, such as, Network Computers and Network PCs."
Shane Maine, Sanga International Inc.	"Sanga International is a world leading provider of "packaged enterprise software solutions" that enable Fortune 500 companies and large governmental organizations to rapidly deploy new Intranet and Extranet applications. These applications integrate disparate information technology systems and extend these systems throughout and beyond the enterprise. Sanga provides its 100% Pure Java-certified Sanga Enterprise Solutions in four areas: 1. Finance 2. Telecommunications 3. Government 4. Integrated Supply Chain Management (ISCM) "Sanga's 100% Pure Java-certified applications enable large organizations to dramatically reduce the cost of deploying and maintaining enterprise applications" said Shane Maine, Chairman and CEO, Sanga International Inc. "Fortune 500 companies can drastically reduce the cost of client administration and cost of deployment with enterprise Java technology-based applications because there is no client software." According to its 1996 study, Gartner Group estimated that client administration can exceed 50 percent of IT spending. For Fortune 500 companies which often have annual IT budgets in excess of $1 billion, that translates into reduced costs of hundreds of millions of dollars. Sanga Enterprise Solutions in Action Organizations today are committed to and deploying Java technology-based applications. For example, Guy Morizan of OCAS (Ontario Colleges Application Service) is deploying a Sanga Enterprise Solution in the Governmental Sector, named the Education Client Information System. This application will service 25 colleges across Ontario that will allow its students online access to application services. The Sanga CIS will service approximately 17,000 staff and 250,00 full-time students at the 25 colleges; as well as businesses who may want to buy courses from the colleges and organizations that are sponsoring students. OCAS had hoped to buy Java platform tools and build the application in-house, but a lack of available tools and in-house resources led them to Sanga. "We spent six months reviewing 26 vendors, starting with companies selling Java platform tools to even looking at custom integration shops. The tools wouldn't scale to our needs, or weren't 100% Pure Java certified," recalled Morazain. "Even if the right tools were available, we soon realized we didn't have the technical resources necessary to build such a large application. So we looked at application and database vendors. Again, nobody was building enterprise solutions, in the Java language...until we found Sanga International." There are 25 colleges in the province of Ontario, Canada, each with its own independent and disparate system for managing critical administrative information that includes curriculum, admissions, registration, scheduling and records. The Ontario College Application Service (OCAS) was established to provide a single, common system for processing student applications and confirmations of acceptance. With as many as 250,000 full-time students in the system at any one time, OCAS processes about 150,000 new applications each year."
Barry Parshall, Seagate Software	"Java technology has a lot of momentum in the marketplace and is delivering on the promise of providing a build-it-once, write-it-everywhere story. We see Java technology as one of the important development languages for the Web and have delivered a 100% Pure Java-certified Smart Viewer for Seagate Crystal Reports 6.0, the upcoming version of our market leading query and reporting tool. We intend to continue developing beans and Java technology for application development and report creation purposes."
Robert Tufty, SensiView Corporation	"The Java Virtual Machine and the 100% Pure Java program provides all sensor users with an operating platform to move forward beyond the limitations of conventional, proprietary sensor monitoring systems and hardware. Over the past 30 years, the instrument industry has evolved in parallel with, but separate from, the computer industry, and can finally begin to leverage their requirements directly from world wide network computing. As the nexus of modern Internet technology, significant processing power, and conformal object programming, Java technology advances calculation beyond computation as much as Arabic digits advanced computation beyond the limitations of Roman Numerals. This formalism enables the SensiView Virtual Sensors to extend the promise of 'Write Once, Run Anywhere' to all sensor users so they may 'Sense once, View anywhere' at any time."
John Schroeder, SQRIBE Technologies	"SQRIBE's enterprise customer base, exceeding 7500 sites worldwide, demands information delivery solutions that are based on open, secure and scalable technology. We've successfully delivered solutions, based on a multi-tier architecture, in the Java language. " said John Schroeder, VP of Engineering at SQRIBE Technologies. "Java technology, while relatively new, has quickly matured, allowing SQRIBE to deliver on its strategy more rapidly than with traditional tools."
Joe Keller, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (software business units)	"Leading-edge development tools are necessary for advancing Java technology's power and flexibility," said Joe Keller, Director/Marketing, Authoring & Development Tools, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Leading ahead of its competitors in Java platform compliancy and implementation, such as 100% Pure Java program and support of the latest JDKTM standards, are Sun's tools, including Java WorkShopTM development environment and Java StudioTM authoring package."
David Knight, Sybase	"Sybase is convinced that Java technology is evolving from a programming language to an Enterprise computing platform," said David Knight, Director of Internet Transaction Products at Sybase. "What is making this transition possible is the evolution of a common multi-tier architecture, the definition of standard API's, and the delivery of products based on these API's. Sybase with its PowerJ -- second generation Enterprise Java platform tool, Jaguar CTS -- the first Transaction Server with Enterprise JavaBeansTM technology support, and jCONNECT -- 100% Pure Java-certified DBMS driver has the industry's most comprehensive set of products to bring Java technology into the Enterprise mainstream. What these products enable our customers to do is develop and deploy a new breed of customer centric Enterprise Java technology-based applications such as help desk, sales force automation, asset management, and customer self-service."
Sarah Giles, TRADE'ex Electronic Commerce Systems, Inc.	"TRADE'ex develops and licenses Java technology-based enterprise electronic commerce software solutions that facilitate on-line, business-to-business product sales and purchases over networks for our clients. Organizations like British Telecom, are using TRADE'ex Market Maker and TRADE'ex Distributor to facilitate efficient buying and selling with trading partners over the Internet, corporate Intranet or Extranet. In May of 1997, BT Launched the first live working marketplace on the Internet specifically designed to benefit the small-to-medium-sized enterprise with TRADE'ex Market Maker. The telecommunications leader is developing this Java technology-based service to help companies reach a global marketplace while considerably reducing the cost of products, as well as purchasing administration and management in the IT and Office Supply industries. BT's alluring argument for the service is that "the approach will save cash-conscious companies considerable money, time and effort purchasing products while reducing administrative overhead," said Sarah Giles, BT Solutions Marketing Manager. " With our products written in the Java language, and certified as meeting the 100% Pure Java requirements by Sun, we supply the most powerful and portable e-commerce applications for even the most demanding EC initiatives," states Daniel Aegerter, TRADE'ex CEO."
James K. Phillips, Visual Numerics, Inc.	"Developing Java technology-based solutions enables our customers and partners to benefit from our computational and visualization expertise on virtually any platform. The platform independence, object oriented design and connectivity of the Java platform is key to our strategy for building our next generation component-based Visual Data Analysis (VDA) tools."
Neal Bangerter, Visualize, Inc.	"From the perspective of Visualize, Inc., Java technology creates enormous new opportunities for business users and developers. We have developed the DataVist data visualization and analysis tools to take full advantage of the robustness and platform independence of Java technology, enabling us to give users highly interactive, professional charts and graphs of their data in real-time."
John Neffenger, Volano LLC	"When I started my Java platform-based software business, my friends would call to tease me for playing with a toy programming language. Now they're faced with having to port their C and C++ code to a dozen different operating systems. Needless to say, they're all desperately scrambling to port their code to the Java language -- an effort I avoided by starting with Java technology in the first place. These days my friends call for advice." "Because our VolanoChat Client is 100% Pure Java certified, it runs on 22 operating systems and 14 hardware platforms without a single line of platform specific code -- a total of 478 different Java platform-enabled environments in all. That kind of portability was hardly imaginable just two years ago!"
Dr. Wenwey Hseush, WebMan Technologies, Inc.	"WebMan makes sure that Timecruiser is truly cross-platform, meaning the same software program will run on every Java Virtual Machine enabled operating system and derive the same result. Because without such virtue, no software system can really improve the entire enterprise's collaboration, productivity and cost efficiency, due to the heterogeneity of departmental computing environment! As commented by U.S. Navy, at Port Hueneme, CA, "Timecruiser offers the most sensible Web-based solution and great flexibility for enterprise scheduling and calendaring needs over a wide span of geographical regions." *As used on this web site, the terms "Java virtual machine" or "JVM" mean a virtual machine for the Java platform.

[ This page was updated: 10-Nov-99 ]