Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 19:09:11 -0500 From: Tony Tong <TonyT@vallon.com> To: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@cdrom.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, davidg@FreeBSD.ORG, www@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: sales@talentsoft.com, "Dennis E. Burke" <dxmerch@mci2000.com>, mikef@talentsoft.com, ericg@talentsoft.com, paulp@talentsoft.com, richhui@talentsoft.com, mingz@talentsoft.com, yingpl@talentsoft.com Subject: Partnership and Bundling opportunity between TalentSoft and FreeB SD Message-ID: <328C8BCB9B54D211AA5000A02477C3E40233@odin.vallon.com>
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Dear Jordan Hubbard and David Greenman, FreeBSD Organization, We were referred to you by Dennis Burke as the key contacts for the FreeBSD product. TalentSoft is leading Internet and e-commerce tool and application developer for Unix, FreeBSD, and Linux. We are interested in working with you on promoting our Web+ and Web+Shop for the FreeBSD platform. Our Web+ and Web+Shop have recently been bundled by RedHat Linux 5.1 and LinuxPro from LinuxMall.com. We would like to discuss a bundling relationship with the FreeBSD product. I will be in the Bay Area from tomorrow 9/26 to Wednesday 9/30 for the ISPcon and the CommNet/SF trade shows. I would like to set up a time to meet with you sometime on Monday 9/28. You can reply to this email or call me at my cell phone 612-817-6903 to confirm a time for the meeting. I can show you our Web+Shop e-commerce product which we plan to integrate with your FreeBSD. We have already successfully ported and tested Web+ and Web+Shop for FreeBSD. Actually, one of our largest Web+Shop customers is using FreeBSD in China. We have a strong presence in China. BTW, please add the following info about TalentSoft Web+ and Web+Shop to your Commercial Vendors page at http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/commercial.html : TalentSoft Web+ (WebPlus) is a development tool dedicated for developing web-based client-server applications without writing CGI programs. It enables rapid/easy creation of highly functional web pages which integrates with databases, files systems, email, Java applets, and other third-party programs. With Web+, users can quickly and easily create powerful Web applications without learning complicated programming languages such as C, C++, PERL, or Java. In addition to ODBC database support, Web+ 4.0 provides native API support for the popular shareware databases including mySQL, miniSQL, and PostgreSQL. In addition to supporting CGI, ISAPI and NSAPI, Web+ 4.0 supports the popular Apache API for high speed web application processing. The new versions of Web+ and Web+Shop also support the real-time credit-card payment processing technologies provided by CyberCash and IC Verify for online e-commerce payment processing. I look forward to meeting you next week. Tony Tong Director TalentSoft - Talent Information Management, LLC. 900 Nicollet Mall, Suite 700, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Tel: 612-338-8900 Fax: 612-904-0010 Email: info@talentsoft.com Web: http://www.TalentSoft.com http://www.WebPlus.com cell phone 612-817-6903 ===================================== FYI: some more info about TalentSoft: TalentSoft is a leading developer of web application development tools, middleware, and e-commerce applications for NT, Unix, and Linux. TalentSoft's Web+ (WebPlus) application development tool and middleware provides built-in support for CyberCash's payment technology. TalentSoft's Web+Shop is a powerful and easy-to-use e-commerce shopping-cart application for the web. Web+Shop allows merchants and ISPs to quickly create Internet malls and shopping carts to sell products, manage inventory, fulfill orders, manage customers/shipping/tax, and perform payment transactions online. Web+Shop supports full integration with CyberCash's secured credit-card processing technology. ==================================== No offence, we plan to do a similar press release for Web+ and FreeBSD: TalentSoft Releases Free Beta Versions of Web+® 4.0 and Web+Shop 3.5 for Linux at the 1998 Linux Expo MINNEAPOLIS , MN-May 18, 1998-TalentSoft-During today's 1998 Linux Expo (www.LinuxExpo.org), the largest Linux show and conference in the world, TalentSoft (www.TalentSoft.com) announced the release of the free beta versions of Web+ 4.0, a powerful web application development tool, and Web+Shop 3.5, a full featured e-commerce shopping cart applications with secure online payment processing. These two fully functional and non-expiring products are available for free download at www.TalentSoft.com or www.WebPlus.com. TalentSoft Web+ (WebPlus) is a development tool dedicated for developing web-based client-server applications without writing CGI programs. It enables rapid/easy creation of highly functional web pages which integrates with databases, files systems, email, Java applets, and other third-party programs. With Web+, users can quickly and easily create powerful Web applications without learning complicated programming languages such as C, C++, PERL, or Java. Web+ currently runs on Microsoft Windows NT/95, Linux, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, and will soon be available on other Unix systems. It works with most web servers and integrates with all ODBC compliant databases. "We have been using Web+ for the last two years for our intranet/extranet based real time trading system called ETS (Energy Trading System), which is in use by some of the largest power companies in the US," said Ilya Slutsker, Vice President of Technology at Open Access Technology International, Inc. "With Web+, developing Internet/intranet applications takes hours to days instead of weeks to months. Web+'s powerful integration capability, its comprehensive functionality and easy to learn language far surpasses all other competitors in its category." Web+ has rapidly gained a significant user base in North America, Asia, and Europe. Companies and other organizations are using Web+ to build web applications on the Internet and on internal enterprise networks (intranets). Applications include internal groupware, workflow, human resource management tools, online chatting, online discussion forum (conferencing), cyber store, online order entry, contact management, scheduling and registration, help-desk support, and integration with SAP, Oracle Financial, and other financial accounting systems. "Web+ enables the rapid creation of highly functional Internet/intranet application," said Victor Tong, Director at TalentSoft. "Using advanced technologies like multi-threaded client/server architecture, memory caching, database integration, Java integration, and integration with third-party applications, DLL, COM, CORBA objects, TalentSoft Web+ leap-frogs other competitors in web-based application development market." "Web+ is a great addition to our Linux product line," said Mark Bolzern, President of LinuxMall.com and Director of Linux International. "In addition to reselling Web+ and Web+Shop, we have decided to collaborate with TalentSoft to utilize their Web+Shop e-commerce shopping cart application for our online shopping site at www.LinuxMall.com." Version 4.0 enhances the performance by utilizing client-server architecture and memory caching for processing scripts. In addition to ODBC database support, Web+ 4.0 Unix/Linux versions provide native API support for the popular shareware databases including mySQL, miniSQL, and PostgreSQL. In addition to supporting CGI, ISAPI and NSAPI, Web+ 4.0 supports the popular Apache API for high speed web application processing. The new versions of Web+ and Web+Shop also support the real-time credit-card payment processing technologies provided by CyberCash and IC Verify for online e-commerce payment processing. TalentSoft designs and markets innovative web-based development and application software for business, government and education markets around the world. TalentSoft is an operation of Talent Information Management, LLC., which headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, with offices in Boston, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Singapore. To request more information on the Web+ please contact: TalentSoft - Talent Information Management, LLC. 900 Nicollet Mall, Suite 700, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Tel: 612-338-8900 Fax: 612-904-0010 Email: info@talentsoft.com Web: www.talentsoft.com, www.webplus.com Web+(R), Web+(R)Shop, and Web+(R)Commerce are registered trademarks of Talent Information Management, LLC. (C) 1998 TalentSoft, All Rights Reserved To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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