Announce Teaming Agreement

Concord, NH (August 11, 1998) - Hiawatha Island Software LLC Company and Pilot Research Associates, Inc. announced today a working relationship in which the two companies agree to pursue opportunities to develop products compatible with the Advance Search Facility (ASF).

 

ASF is a suite of software tools to provide searching against collections of documents. It offers the opportunity to support a widespread, commonly accepted search interface to any collection of online resources. It offers the ability to let users search web sites in a standardized way, and it offers the ability to refer users to other sources of relevant information, just as they refer users to you. This is a way to help organizations make their information easy to find. The ASF project is funded by the U.S. government-wide Information Technology Innovation Program. The Executive Office of the President, the Department of Commerce, the U.S. Geological Survey, and other agencies have articulated requirements.

The ASF project is being designed to facilitate the development of both a freely available products in which source code is provided as well as commercially supported products. It is component-based, with well-defined programming interfaces that allow for the easy replacement of any of the free, included components with commercial or third party alternatives. Hiawatha Island Software LLC will develop custom versions of their award winning Metadata Generator and analysis tools for both client and server side use. Hiawatha Island Software LLC Company will help to design and support both freeware and commercial versions of all utilities.

 

"Hiawatha Island Software LLC Company is excited about working on the ASF project", stated Robert B. Yonaitis, founder and Principal Engineer of Hiawatha Island Software LLC. "The ability to provide tools which implement an international standard for indexing, categorizing and searching the Internet will have a tremendous impact on how we send and receive information around the world."

"The ASF is all about having a standard, interchangeable parts that empower communities to share information. Hiawatha Island Software LLC is especially focused on a key success factor for ASF-tools that enhance the gathering of Meta data about World Wide Web information. It is great to see such companies enhancing and extending the ASF vision with freeware and commercial products that plug into the international standards adopted by the Advanced Search Facility", said Eliot Christian of the United States Geological Survey, founding architect of the Global Information Locator Service (GILS).

About Hiawatha Island Software LLC Company.

Hiawatha Island Software LLC Company was founded by Robert B. Yonaitis in 1995. HISC is located in Concord, New Hampshire and serves customers around the world through its consulting services and software products. HISC offers a wide variety of software and hardware products, including award winning "TagGen" software and SmartCase Custom Productivity packages, Management Consulting Services, Project Management Services and Intranet Development. Each product and service is designed with one goal-bringing HISC's customers the "power of simplicity."

For more information visit our World Wide Web site at:

www.hisoftware.com

or call: 603/223-9740

About Pilot Research Associates

Pilot Research Associates, Inc. was founded in 1985 by Dr. Byung Yu, Mark Lillard, and Chae Hee Hong to provide innovative, technically sound information technology services to both the commercial and federal sectors. PILOT is headquartered in Vienna, VA, less than 12 miles from Washington, D.C., and maintains regional offices in Denver, Colorado Springs, Dallas, and Seoul, Korea. PILOT offers multi-disciplinary team skills in all phases of systems development; executes systems engineering of major long-distance network management applications; and develops and markets two proprietary telecommunications-related hardware/software products currently in use in the industry. Additional information may be found at their World Wide Web site at http://www.pilotresearch.com or call 703-883-2522

 

Dana Louise Simberkoff

Hiawatha Island Software LLC Company

603/ 223-9740

e-mail: danalouise@hisoftware.com

 

Elizabeth Huber

Pilot Research Associates

703/883-2522

e-mail: Betty.Huber@pilotresearch.com

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