At some point, almost everyone wishes there was a way to silence the incessant ringing of cell phones in public spaces. Cell phone jammers are illegal in the United States and many other countries, but that hasn’t stopped a steady stream of orders from trickling in — including some from the U.S. government. MSNBC reports.

Prague – 20 March 2001 – SilverStream Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: SSSW), The eBusiness Platform Company, and Qbizm Technologies, Inc. have formed a worldwide Technology Alliance Partnership between the J2EE-based SilverStream Application Server and the HyperQbs add-on middle-ware. The HyperQbs framework can now also introduce its “dynamic face†software component technology to users of the J2EE-based SilverStream Application Server.

This collaboration will enable system integrators and software-houses to work more effectively, using components containing a reusable presentation logic layer. This layer enables the easy prototyping of Internet applications, as well as offering an easy-to-survey architecture and independence of user interface device. The “dynamic face†concept is mainly applied to m-commerce, allowing users to access any application from various devices requiring a different functionality. The SilverStream Application Server provides a robust, reliable, and scalable platform for any web application extension.

“Users of the SilverStream Application Server have been using the component model defined in the J2EE specification. The Qbizm Technologies’ technology enables users to extend the functionality of their solutions by adding a “dynamic face†to their existing components,†said Petr Brnak, SilverStream Managing Director in the Czech Republic.

“SilverStream is an important partner for us from the ranks of application server suppliers, with a strong base in extended enterprise solutions, where the effectiveness of the reusable component approach is probably most significant,†said Peter K. Ulrich, CEO of Qbizm Technologies, Inc.

The HyperQbs framework v2 Beta 2.0 configured for the SilverStream Application Server is available free of charge at http://www.hyperqbs.org.
The SilverStream Application Server is available for testing free of charge at http://www.silverstream.com.

About SilverStream Software, Inc.
SilverStream Software, Inc., The eBusiness Platform Company, delivers software and services that enable businesses to create, deploy and manage eBusiness applications. The SilverStream eBusiness Platform consists of J2EE-based SilverStream Application Server, SilverStream ePortal and SilverStream xCommerce (XML B2B integration server). Used in corporations throughout the world, SilverStream Software products are changing the way business is being conducted in Global 2000 companies and large organisations such as ADC Telecommunications, Amerisure Insurance, Swiss Post, the Chicago Stock Exchange, Samsung Electronics, Sears, Qwest Communications and US Cellular. For more information on SilverStream please visit www.silverstream.cz, or www.silverstream.com.

About Qbizm Technologies, Inc.
Qbizm Technologies, Inc. (http://www.qbizm.com) is a middle-ware company focused on the development and deployment of value-added software components for sophisticated and scalable m-commerce solutions. The Czech development team of Qbizm has developed an open architecture (HyperQbs) which enables the creation of reusable components with a “dynamic faceâ€. This technology is primarily aimed at system integrators and developers of major Internet projects. Qbizm operates on the global IT markets through its parent company, Qbizm Technologies, Inc., which is based in Silicon Valley, California.

Contacts:
Petr Brnak
SilverStream Software
Tel.: + 420 2 83 007 311
petr.brnak@silverstream.cz
Peter K. Ulrich
Qbizm Technologies
Tel: + 420 5 4124 2414
peter.ulrich@qbizm.com
Jana Kuliskova
CoLin
Tel.: +420 2 838 90 139
jana.kuliskova@colin.cz

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SilverStream is a registered trademark, and SilverStream xCommerce and The eBusiness Platform Company are trademarks of SilverStream Software, Inc. All other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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From a Business Wire press release: “Alias|Wavefront, an SGI (NYSE:SGI) company, today announced that it has successfully ported its entire suite of Maya 3D software products to the Red Hat Linux operating system.
The products: Maya Builder, Maya Complete and Maya Unlimited for Red Hat Linux 6.2 and higher will all begin shipping this week. Numerous requests for a Linux version of Maya from leaders in the game development, film and visual effects communities served as the incentive for the port.”

2600 News announces: “Tickets to Hacking At Large 2001, to be held in the Netherlands on August 10, 11, and 12, are now available through the 2600 Online Store.”

“Think of it as God’s address book,” says David Coursey. Microsoft’s .Net wants to provide you with a single online storehouse for all of your personal information. Bill Gates has pledged that your personal information will remain personal. “But what happens 40 years from now, when Microsoft is General Motors looking for another way to eke out a decent quarter? Or has been co-opted into a dictatorial government?” Full story at ZDNet

“Mojolin was recognized by CareerXRoads to be one of the Top 500 best Internet job sites, out of almost 4000 reviewed, in its new 2001 directory. CareerXRoads, an Internet directory and annual book, was developed by Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler, nationally recognized authorities on recruiting and human resources. The CareerXRoads directory itself is widely considered to be the ‘best of the best’ in the industry and is distributed to over 10,000 recruiters and job seekers both on-line and in book form.” Read the full press release at LinuxPR.

From Help Net Security: ” A common version of rpm for all Red Hat distributions is being released. This version of rpm understands legacy version 3 packaging used in Red Hat 6.x/5.x distributions as well as version 4 packaging used in Red Hat 7.x.
In addition, rpm-4.0.2 has support for both the legacy db1 format used in Red Hat 6.x/5.x databases as well as support for the db3 format database used in Red Hat 7.x .”

“Versions of Licq prior to 1.0.3 have a vulnerability involving the way Licq parses received URLs. The received URLs are passed to the web browser without any sanity checking by using the system() function. Because of the lack of checks on the URL, remote attackers can pipe other commands with the sent URLs causing the client to unwillingly execute arbitrary commands. The URL parsing code has been fixed in the most recent 1.0.3 version.” Full details at Help Net Security.

As LinuxWorld’s Joe Barr says: “Ifyou stay connected to the Internet, you will be scanned. It’s a fact of life.” It’s important to understand how these scans work in order to sufficiently protect your system. This column is a “basic primer on scanning, what it is, why it’s done, and the wonderful world of “secret handshakes” and stealth scans.”

LinuxPlanet interviews David Boyes: “Anyone who works with Linux on IBM’s System/390 mainframes has certainly heard of David Boyes. He made history early in the project by running no less than 41,400 Linux images on a single mainframe, all of them doing real work under simulated load as web servers. More recently, David has been involved in helping application service providers and other companies deploy Linux on System/390 hardware in the real world.”