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Java Internet Business Expo

Java Internet Business Expo

Take one hot town -- New York -- and blend in one hot technology -- Java -- and you've got the makings for a great event: The Java Internet Business Expo, which ended August 28. This event, with more than 16,000 attendees, exceeded all attendance projections and lived up to its star billing.

IBM was a co-sponsor of the show, and our senior vice president and software group executive, John M. Thompson, was a featured keynote speaker. At the expo, we showcased the latest solutions from IBM and Lotus that employ Java to help customers rapidly develop and deploy e-business applications. These offerings included the VisualAge for Java integrated development environment, the San Francisco Java business process components, and the Lotus BeanMachine authoring tool.

We were also pleased to have three of our customers in the IBM booth, demonstrating how Java is helping their businesses:

  • Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. -- a multiple media entertainment company founded by best-selling author Tom Clancy and Virtus Corporation, the leader in interactive 3D business applications. The company's upcoming release, Tom Clancy's Politika, is one of the first games written entirely in Java and will leverage IBM's InVerse technology to address critical issues of Internet response time and reliability.

  • Caliber System, Inc. -- a leading provider of integrated, customized transportation and logistics services. They're developing a new Java-based transportation management system for RPS, Inc., their small-package delivery unit.

  • Econometrics -- an entrepreneurial market research company based in Chicago. Through the use of a new Java applet, they are expanding their services to more users via the Internet.


News from the Expo...


IBM, Netscape and Sun collaborate to speed performance, compatibility, and deployment of Java platform...
 
IBM introduces expanded support for Java developers, ships Enterprise Edition of VisualAge for Java Tool...
 
Econometrics extends its market intelligence service to Internet users with new Java application
 
"End-to-End Java: The Reality is Now" -- John M. Thompson, IBM Sr. Vice President, addresses Java Internet Business Expo (complete text) - August 26, 1997
 

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