Secant Technologies Wins Editor's Choice Award from Java Developer's Journal for Second Consecutive Year

Business Wire, Dec 13, 1999

NEW YORK & CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 1999--

Secant's Award-Winning Extreme Persistent Object Service Receives

Highly Coveted Industry Recognition

Secant Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of advanced application server software technology for building e-Business solutions, has won the influential Java Developer's Journal (JDJ) Editor's Choice award for the Best Database Product for its Secant Extreme Persistent Object Service (Extreme POS) product.

For the second year running, JDJ, the premier Java-centric publication, has declared Secant Extreme Persistent Object Service best of class. Clearly, the power behind this database integration technology has been validated, with little room left for debate. JDJ presented its Editor's Choice Awards on December 8, 1999 during a ceremony held at the Java Business Conference in New York.

"JDJ is pleased to present this award to Secant for its innovative product," said Alan Williamson, industry news editor at Java Developer's Journal. "When it comes to integrating Java objects and EJBs with relational databases, Secant Extreme Persistent Object Service is one of the easiest to use highest performing solution."

"Secant is honored to receive the prestigious Editor's Choice award two years in a row," explains Kenneth S. Rubin, chief operating officer at Secant. "It is pleasing that our product has been recognized for its ability to decrease development time 60% or more while increasing performance of up to 100 times in the development of e-Business systems."

This latest JDJ award builds on the avalanche of awards Secant has recently received including Best Java Application Server from Network Computing, Best Internet/Intranet Application from Application Development Trends, and Top 50 E-Business Solution Developers on Oracle, from Oracle Corporation.

About Secant Extreme Persistent Object Service(tm) (Extreme POS)

Secant Extreme Persistent Object Service(tm) (Extreme POS) provides the industry's best Java and C object-to-RDBMS and ORDBMS mapping solutions, enabling customers to develop state-of-the-art object systems that seamlessly map objects and their relationships into and out of widely installed relational and object-relational databases. Extreme POS provides a very efficient in-memory caching and database connection pooling architecture, that makes it the industry's most scalable persistent object service to support the data-intensive needs of hundreds of concurrent users.

About Secant Technologies

Secant Technologies, Inc., provides expert solutions to extreme e-Business problems. With emphasis on object-oriented and distributed computing technologies, Secant provides the complete infrastructure and tools for building scalable, enterprise caliber, e-Business solutions. Organizations that have recognized business benefits through the use of Secant's products include Lockheed-Martin; Siemens; Deutsche Bank; i2 Technologies; Detroit Edison; Triton Container and Susquehanna Partners. Founded in 1995, Se cant Technologies has headquarters in Cleveland and offices in Boulder, Colo. and San Francisco. Additional information is available on the Web at http://www.secant.com.