Curl Corporation and Space Machine, Inc. Enter Into Partnership
Space Machine Implements Curl™ Technology To Extend It's Platform's Client-Side Capabilities For Next Generation Web Technologies
CAMBRIDGE, MA (September 10, 2001) - Curl Corporation, the leading provider of Internet infrastructure for the development and delivery of Web business applications and content, and Space Machine, Inc. the leading software platform and application framework for enabling "location-smart" applications, announced an alliance partnership offering the benefits of Curl's next-generation Web development environment and Space Machine's technology for visually communicating location information to end users.
By using the Surge software platform 1.0, Space Machine is now able to deliver dynamically rendered maps and other location-based information to the growing Curl™ technology user base. "Curl technology is highly dynamic and interactive, a compatible and synergistic enhancement to Space Machine's platform that nicely complements its current suite of Java-based mapping and publishing solutions," said Vera Lam, vice president of product marketing for Space Machine.
The Curl and Space Machine partnership will enable developers and Web content providers to deliver next generation Web applications and pages to the client device that leverage the power of wireless location technologies. Robert L. Batty, Curl vice president of sales and marketing, said: "By working with Space Machine we will be able to give their customers a substantially richer and more interactive user experience on the client side than they would be able to find with any other comparable market offerings."
About Curl Corporation
About Curl Corporation Curl Corporation is a software infrastructure company that has created a content development and delivery software platform that transforms the Web into a Client/Server environment. The Curl content language unifies text formatting, scripting, full object-oriented programming and distributed computing into one integrated environment. By taking advantage of the processing power of a client device, content written in the Curl™ language delivers a richer, more interactive user experience with full, application-level functionality. Curl technology substantially reduces content size, which allows for faster downloads at a cost lower than standard Web content delivery. Our technology is designed to fully interact with existing Web standards and technologies and can be easily integrated with key enterprise information systems. It has also been demonstrated to substantially increase the productivity of Web content authors, designers and developers. For more information, visit www.curl.com.
About Space Machine, Inc.
Space Machine delivers the leading software platform and application framework enabling enterprise-class "location-smart" applications that leverage the power of wireless location technologies. The Company's mission: to help businesses build and deploy location-smart applications. Founded in 1999 and currently headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Space Machine is a privately held company with a strong culture of technology innovation and engineering excellence. For more information about Space Machine, please visit www.spacemachine.net or send email to inquire1@spacemachine.net.
Curl and Surge are trademarks of Curl Corporation.
