StarBase Introduces StarTeam 5.0 Sun Solaris Edition; StarTeam Delivers a Best-of-Breed e-Business Solution to the Unix Community

Business Wire, March 31, 2000

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SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 2000

StarBase Corp. (Nasdaq: SBAS), leading provider of eCollaboration solutions for the development and management of eBusiness announced Friday the availability of StarTeam Enterprise 5.0 for the Sun Solaris(TM) operating environment.

StarTeam Enterprise 5.0, Solaris Edition, enables organizations building applications on the Sun Solaris operating environment to implement a complete custom management solution for projects involving the creation, testing, deployment and management of Web-based applications. The StarTeam 5.0 product is now available for release to select StarClients(TM) who are currently developing high-end applications for the Web, broader deployment is expected within 30-60 days. StarTeam Enterprise increases developer productivity, and improves and accelerates application and project release schedules.

"The Solaris operating system is an extremely scalable development environment and one that several of our customers use," said Tom Wilk, senior consultant at Interlink Group, Inc., an e-business consultancy. "Having applications and development products like StarTeam available on this platform is a huge productivity boost to the Unix marketplace. StarTeam's user interface integrates all the StarTeam functionality and enables collaboration from all the different contributors. In my experience this is a major reason for the increasing pervasiveness and acceptance of StarTeam within organizations."

Tom Goguen, group manager for Solaris Software at Sun Microsystems stated, "The Solaris platform offers developers and their customers, massive scalability, 24x7 availability, and a sophisticated level of manageability. Companies like StarBase are porting applications like StarTeam Enterprise to Solaris software in response to requirements for large-scale web applications that call for a collaborative development solution. We welcome StarBase to the growing list of Solaris software tool vendors."

StarClients are qualified by the level of StarTeam deployment throughout the client organization, the scope of development, the degree of feedback, and the active participation committed to StarBase. Qualified participants in the program can take advantage of early product release schedules and realize broad business benefits and productivity improvements at the outset. The program is designed to increase collaboration between the corporate development community and the StarBase development organization. StarClients participate in the StarBase Technical Advisory Board where they can provide input into the expanding StarBase product strategy.

"To address the urgent needs of some very significant customers, we developed a StarClient program for organizations who require early adoption of new technology and are willing to participate in our corporate communications program," said Lydia Patterson, vice president StarBase products group. "This elite group of StarBase clients provides a valuable service to all our customers by helping StarBase maintain the competitive advantage required to succeed in the software development industry."

StarTeam, with roots in change management and now reaching successfully into the Web development market, delivers an eBusiness digital asset management and best-of-breed solution to the Solaris operating environment. StarTeam delivers the most complete functionality to successfully manage the delivery of software applications.

StarTeam will provide the Solaris software developer with an easily deployable and fully integrated package including:

-- Version Control

-- Visual Configuration Management

-- Defect & Incident Tracking

-- Task Management

-- Knowledge Sharing

-- Client/Server Architecture

-- Web Interface

-- Scalable Repository with User Selected Standard RDBMS

-- Integration with the most popular IDEs

-- Integration with MS Project

About StarTeam 5.0

StarTeam, an integrated technical collaboration and software development management tool, is designed to significantly improve the productivity of software development teams. StarTeam 5.0 delivers the integrations and server support to better manage the requirements of large development environments. StarTeam provides remote developers with the ability to effectively manage and collaborate on enterprise-wide applications, and enables access to projects via a Web browser. StarTeam is the only solution with an open API (JAVA & COM) that allows you to build your own interfaces to access StarTeam projects. Available by calling StarBase at 888/770-STAR or by visiting the StarBase Web site at www.starbase.com.

About Interlink Group Inc.

Interlink Group Inc. is an e-business consulting firm that specializes in providing full lifecycle e-business software and network solutions, including strategy, systems development, network infrastructure development, Web site design and support. Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Denver, Interlink is a privately held company with offices in Chicago, Phoenix, Salt Lake City and Omaha. For more information, visit www.interlinkgroup.com.