Voted by Attendees at SIGS Conference for Java Development Realtime, sole distributor and representative in South Africa of Progress Software Corporation, a leading supplier of application development, deployment and management products, announces that Progress` SonicMQ Internet messaging server for Java developers won Best Java Middleware award at the recent SIGS Conference for Java Development.
"SIGS typically attracts many of the best and brightest Java developers," said Rick Parry, sales director of Realtime. "Their selection of SonicMQ as the best Java middleware of any type underscores their recognition of the need for Java-based Internet messaging. The award also validates our providing a full-functionality messaging server -- including significant enhancements to the Java Message Service standard such as XML support -- over a limited messaging add-on approach."
"When I first heard of Progress Software`s Java-based messaging product, I thought it was a timely offering for Java developers as well as for Web-hosting ISVs, both of whom are looking for robust, scalable ways to facilitate communication and integration between business-to-business e-commerce applications," said Dan Kara, chief technology officer of Intermedia Group Inc., a META Group affiliate for emerging information technology markets. "The recognition by SIGS attendees says the product not only is timely, but is of the highest calibre."
Designed for developers building Internet e-commerce applications, SonicMQ is the first standalone Java messaging server from a major application development vendor. SonicMQ adheres to and extends the JMS specification, and provides the speed, robustness and flexibility essential for scalable performance. SonicMQ is designed with the scalability and performance to match the Progress Apptivity product, rated this year by PC Week as the world`s fastest and highest-performance Java application server. SonicMQ Enterprise Edition is a fully featured Java messaging server for large-scale development and deployment. It will be commercially available later this month, and pricing will be announced at that time. SonicMQ Developer Edition allows developers to build and test their applications. It will be available fee of charge via the Web. To download a preview version, which is available now, or for more information, visit www.sonicmq.com.
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Progress Software
Progress Software Corporation is a global supplier of software products and services for developing, deploying and managing business solutions across all computing and network environments.
Our products, which are installed in more than 60 percent of Fortune 100 companies, include application servers, databases, development tools and application management products for Internet/Web, extranet and intranet applications. Our customers operate in 100 countries, are supported by more than 1,200 employees worldwide, and deploy annually more than $1.5 billion in Progress Software-based applications built by 2,000+ independent software vendors (ISVs).
Realtime
Realtime is southern Africa`s sole distributor of the Progress Visual 4GL & relational database management system (RDBMS), WebSpeed, CorVu Business Intelligence Tools and comFAX. The company predominantly operates through business partners who write bespoke programs in Progress 4GL/RDMS for their comprehensive client list, ranging from the garment and textile industry to construction and manufacturing companies countrywide.
Using Progress, which currently runs on more than 500 different platforms, Realtime`s business partners tailor existing programs or writes new ones and with Progress WebSpeed, the customer can take advantage of business transactions over the Internet.
In addition, the company offers specialist web-development and transactional consulting, as well as programming resources.