Subject: Advanced Search Facility Teaming Agreement
Jon Riewe (riewe@bluangel.com)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:24:20 -0400
Message-Id: <A112D4E8CEB8D111B8D300A0247B83A90B7AFB@jasmine.bluangel.com> From: Jon Riewe <riewe@bluangel.com> To: 'GILS Mailing List' <gils@cni.org> Subject: Advanced Search Facility Teaming Agreement Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:24:20 -0400
Blue Angel Technologies, Inc. and Pilot Research Associates, Inc.
Announce Teaming Agreement
Agreement Provides Commercial Support for the Advanced Search
Facility...
VALLEY FORGE, PA (July 22, 1998) - Blue Angel Technologies, Inc. and
Pilot Research Associates, Inc. announced today a working relationship
in which the two companies agree to pursue opportunities with the
Department of Commerce to develop a commercial version of the Advance
Search Facility (ASF).
ASF provides a scaleable, distributed search and retrieval capability
and permits the development of intelligent agents to query large
collections of mixed-mode data (e.g., text, geospatial metadata, and
bibliographic references). The ASF project is funded by the U.S.
government-wide Information Technology Innovation Program. Requirements
have been articulated by the Executive Office of the President, the
Department of Commerce, the U.S. Geological Survey, and other agencies.
The ASF project is being designed to facilitate the development of both
a freely available version in which source code is provided as well as
commercially supported versions. This is being accomplished by defining
interface standards which will be used by ASF to insure
interoperability. Since the design is component-based with well-defined
programming interfaces, easy replacement of components between vendors
will be assured.
"We are looking forward to working with Blue Angel Technologies", said
Mark Lillard, executive vice president of Pilot Research. "There are a
broad range of customers that want freeware solutions and there are also
a broad base of customers that want commercially supported solutions.
Blue Angel's involvement in the project means that both demands can be
satisfied using one consistent framework" continued Lillard.
"Blue Angel is excited about working on the ASF project", stated Jim
Restivo president of Blue Angel Technologies. "As the amount of
information continues to grow and the need for collaboration among
different communities increases, it is becoming more and more important
that standards-based solutions are the basis for interoperability. The
ASF will insure interoperability and will enable more effective
information delivery solutions. We look forward to participating in
this project and providing customers with commercially supported
solutions using the ASF framework", continued Restivo.
"One measure of success of the ASF is the breadth of consensus reached
on standard interfaces for information search on the World Wide Web.
Blue Angel Technologies is a leader of standards-based technology for
information search and has also integrated its search interfaces with
many other vendors, including Microsoft, Alta Vista, and Fulcrum. Blue
Angel plays a crucial role in the ongoing development of search
facilities for very large and diverse information-sharing communities
such as mapping agencies and museums worldwide", said Eliot Christian of
the United States Geological Survey, founding architect of the Global
Information Locator Service (GILS).
About Pilot Research Associates.
Pilot Research Associates, Inc. was founded in 1985 by Dr. Byung Yu,
Mark Lillard, and Chae Hee Hong to provide innovative, technically sound
information technology services to both the commercial and federal
sectors. PILOT is headquartered in Vienna, VA, less than 12 miles from
Washington, D.C., and maintains regional offices in Denver, Colorado
Springs, Dallas, and Seoul, Korea. PILOT offers multi-disciplinary team
skills in all phases of systems development; executes systems
engineering of major long-distance network management applications; and
develops and markets two proprietary telecommunications-related
hardware/software products currently in use in the industry. Additional
information may be found at their World Wide Web site at
http://www.pilotresearch.com/ or call 703-883-2522.
About Blue Angel Technologies
Blue Angel Technologies is a market leader in software solutions for
delivery and managing information on the Internet. Its products provide
solutions for the capture, maintenance, publication, discovery, and use
of information on any network. Blue Angel helps its customers realize
the benefits of component-based development by simplifying the process
of creating components. Founded in 1992, Blue Angel has assisted
customers worldwide in deploying innovative information delivery
solutions. Blue Angel's corporate headquarters is in Valley Forge,
Pennsylvania. For more information, visit Blue Angel's World Wide Web
site at http://www.bluangel.com/ or call 610-917-9200.
For more information, contact:
Jon Riewe Elizabeth Huber
Blue Angel Technologies Pilot Research Associates
riewe@bluangel.com Betty.Huber@pilotresearch.com
610/917-9200 703/883-2522
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