From: "Marc Schnapp" <mschnapp@plugsys.com>
To: <lwn@lwn.net>
Subject: News Release: Server Pages Product for Xbase
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 13:00:08 -0800


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


CONTACT:
Marc Schnapp,
PlugSys International
(510) 352-2230

November 9, 2000

Xbase Server Pages For Xbase
Beta Testers Invited

SAN LEANDRO, CA— PlugSys International today announced the beta test of its
new Max Server Pages  (MSP) product. This gives Xbase developers a reliable,
economical way to migrate to Linux and perform server-side scripting. Using
classic Xbase commands and functions, developers can quickly access data
stored in DBF files or ODBC databases and blend the results with HTML and
Javascript.
“The web development community has seen PHP, Java Server Pages and Microsoft
’s Active Server Pages,” said Marc Schnapp, PlugSys’ Product Manager. “But
nothing matches the naturalness of Xbase data access and navigation. Put a
SQL database on the back end and nothing could be simpler. The SQL engine
handles the rough stuff, the code is clean, concise and simple. It’s almost
as if Xbase was invented just for web development.”
Max Server Pages development focuses on creation of HTML templates with
embedded Xbase control structures, expressions, commands and functions. “We
chose a commonly accepted embedding model so that our customers could use
popular web tools like HomeSite and Dreamweaver,” said Claudio Lavacca,
PlugSys’ Chief Software Architect. “Unlike other “server pages” type
engines, MSP Professional even allows developers to precompile source code
for even faster loading libraries.
Beta testers are encouraged to apply at http://www.plugsys.com/beta. The
company is particularly interested in Xbase developers with some web
development experience and access to a web server machine running Red Hat
6.2.


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PlugSys International enjoys a decade of development experience based upon a
predecessor product line marketed in Brazil as Joiner. Joiner is still
heavily used by DOS and SCO Unix developers in that market. Max is the
32-bit successor with availability for Microsoft’s 32-bit Windows operating
systems and for major Linux distributions.