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Endeavors Technology Partners With Microsoft To Bring Its Streaming
Applications On-Demand Solution To The .NET Platform



Microsoft's .NET technology to play key role in client level development of Endeavors' Magi
Application Express Solution, the leading On Demand Application Delivery Solution (ODADS),
with management, tracking, security and integration tools for applications, data and Web Services

Microsoft will assist Endeavors Technology in addressing software design and development issues involving Web-enablement of applications so they can be distributed to the desktop for use both on and off line. The focus of the effort will be around three main areas: a) managing, tracking usage in real time and deploying applications anywhere to any Web connected point, b) securely authenticating and identifying users and devices, and c) replacing disparate, complex and costly unconnected services with a single web services environment. Endeavors will have access to Microsoft's laboratory facilities for prototyping, testing, and migration initiatives.

Fugitive
If you understood the technology, you would realise its exactly the opposite of your post, thats what tads do enable companies toy deliver applications over the internet securely.
You may be able to read but you lack understanding.
Guru

well said guru

i wonder if gravy only has one arm?

AGM today.

Who is going from this board?

M

guru,

few understand the technology least of all ainsey. The "news" is all looking a bit tired now - we have heard nothing. Plenty of other companies developing the same software and MS interfaces.

F

Whether I understand th etechnology or not has no bearing on what guru said to you Fugitive and proves his point ..... 'you lack understanding albeit you can read a little'

ainsey,

if I was holding a million based on wonder-deals with MS I would be getting a bit worried by now. There is no tech discussion on the TAD boards here. A great shame.

F

But you don't actually hold ANY shares and you are a FUGitive ..... If I were you - I would wonder how I can hold lots of shares ...... and you cannot

Anyone holding TAD now, after all the warnings is a little silly.

Some of the technology offerings sound good but I feel at this time it is a case of too little too late to save this little unprofitable cash burning software firm that has very little in the way of sales.

Yes of course the 'true' believers will hang in there in the vain hope that it'll come good and they make a fortune out of it but people should not ignore the history of this company and other similar plays out there.

You only have to look at some of the other pie in the sky stories and then the failures to get a feel for what could become of this one.

No advice is intended but this is too high risk for my trading and long term trading habits. Still interested in following this little co though.

jesus wepped



some of us spent 8/9 hours yesterday talking to the directors - the management and other shareholders .... some of us trade tads - hold tads and do a lot of research into the company.

snappy does not appear to trade anything - has no position in tads - at best read a two line announcement this morning to say all resolutions were passed.

He knows virtually nothing about the company or their current sales/prospects ....... he has demonstrated his complete lack of trading experience and knowledge on numerous occasions and yet he feels out of all the 2000 shares in the market - he is best qualified to give us the benefit of his advice on Tads


roflol

Snappy
You don't actually know what you are talking about.
Tadpole have a short term cashlow problem which the GEM money is taking care of.
They are getting a tranche of h/w money this month and some more in september, by that time the need for GEM will no longer exist as Cartesia will be cashflow positive.
A strategic partner is in Talks with Tad regarding a stake in Endeavors because of the future potential.
All in all looks quite promising.
Guru

I think snappy must be by far the best informed on the company, he has no shares in it, which makes him 100% more trading intelligent than we lot, that`s a cert.
well it was a cert. before moneylender used it for his evil purposes.

Just a passing thought.

Also a veteran tadder, I have been trying to warn the eternal optimists that there are problems here. Have been in the business too long to see it any differently.

F

What evil purposes??

What have I done now, have I upset someone, again!

M

guru 1 1/4

You mention that a strategic partner is in talks with Tad regarding a stake in Endeavors. Is this just a rumour or based on more substantial information?
I got the idea from reading the various agm reports that there was no knight in shining armour on the horizon, but would welcome one with open arms!

ikeja

Irvine (CA) and Cambridge (UK), April 2, 2003 - Endeavors Technology,
developer of Web-enabling solutions for enterprise network infrastructures,
today announces a new contract win from Autodesk, the world's leading design
software and digital content company. Its streaming applications on-demand,
software is enabling the rapid, cost-effective, and piracy-free deployment
and management of AutoCAD 2004 to a large pool of prospects. AutoCAD 2004
is a 2D drafting and detailing and 3D design tool used by more designers
worldwide than any other CAD software.

Offering software on a trial basis is a common practice in the technology
industry, and typically involves prospects either downloading a stripped
version for concept evaluation or receiving a 30-day full product trial CD
in the mail. Costs and follow-up tasks related to those trial methods can
be substantial. Autodesk looked to Magi AppExpress technology to reduce
trialware costs without compromising the quality of the user's experience.
As a result, Autodesk is able to deliver more product, discover more
customer opportunities and add more security to the AutoCAD 2004 trial
process. The AutoCAD 2004 trialware being delivered using Magi AppExpress
technology is not a demonstration product, but a completely functional
version that includes the ability to create, view, save and plot files.

Endeavors Technology is a leader in developing Web-based products for
transferring and sharing digital information. With its trialware delivery
solution, Endeavors has provided Autodesk with a new efficient way to get to
market while lowering costs of trialware projects.

The streaming technology of Magi AppExpress downloads AutoCAD 2004
components from trial site server to a PC on an "as needed" basis. The trial
site automatically first checks that a PC satisfies the minimum requirements
needed to install and run the streaming trial software. If it encounters any
problems, it flags these errors and suggests how to correct them and
proceed. When all the requirements are met, the streaming trial client and
AutoCAD 2004 cache are downloaded to a virtual drive on the PC. Icons to
access the AutoCAD 2004 trial and the accompanying Express Tools are placed
on the desktop.

The AutoCAD 2004 streaming trial runs behind the scenes with a server system
managed for Autodesk by Endeavors. In this system, the server's primary role
is to deliver the initial software download, and secondarily to control and
monitor the clients connected to the server. Because this type of
architecture takes advantage of each client's resources, product speed and
performance are nearly identical to those of a stand-alone PC with
application software that has been locally installed from a CD.

The full AutoCAD 2004 application is about 500 MB. Using App Express to
trial a full-version software like AutoCAD ensures that trial users get
"instant gratification." Users register, receive an email with their
password and link, log on to the trial site, download and install the
software, all in just a matter of minutes. In comparison, it could take
days to process a trial request and ship out a CD.

"No one has seen this kind of performance in CAD trial software," said
Robert Ng, Director, New Business Planning and Analysis at Autodesk.
"Streaming the AutoCAD software program using Endeavors' technology allows
users to be up and running in just 5-10 minutes. During the pilot phase,
we found that a higher percentage than normal of trial users were influenced
to buy our product sooner than they originally planned and many bought more
product than planned."

"Magi AppExpress provides a client-centric approach to trialware that offers
dramatic improvements in scalability and allows Autodesk to reach more users
at a lower cost per trial," said Kapi Attawar, VP marketing of Endeavors
Technology. "Nothing else on the market compares to the speed, convenience
and cost-effectiveness of Endeavors' trialware solution."

The trial is currently available for users in the United States and Canada
only.

http://news.com.com/2100-1012-995045.html

fyi




AOL Lands New Patent, Beefs Up IM in '8.0 Plus'
April 1, 2003
By Christopher Saunders


The past week has brought several important moves in America Online's (Quote, Company Info) instant messaging strategy -- another new patent covering instant messaging, and upgrades to IM features built into its flagship service

The patent, No. 6,539,421, protects a "messaging application user interface" -- one that enables sending and receiving of messages to a subset of IM users, and for auto-completion of partially entered IM handles (for interfaces in which one needs to specify an address each time before sending messages.)

On its face, the patent, which was filed in Sept. 1999 and issued last week, means protection for the little-known and short-lived TiK implementation of AOL Instant Messenger. TiK came about in late 1998, when America Online -- under pressure to open its IM network -- released under the GNU Public License an open, ASCII-based protocol called TOC, which provided for a limited version of AIM's functionality. In connection with TOC, AOL released TiK, a Tcl/Tk 8.0 instant messaging client. TiK required users to input the name

Just months later, however, AOL discontinued its support for TiK at the height of a feud with competing IM networks over interoperability. Yet TiK-based clients continue to exist, and the project remains actively supported within the open-source community.

While the patent details features specific to TiK, it also notes that those features are "optional implementation features." As a result, other IM systems, including AIM, might be within the scope of the patent.

Specifically, the text of the patent describes "a messaging application user interface has an input element for receiving electronic messages and an output element for displaying electronic messages." It also provides for a UI that maintains "a subset of the plurality of potential message recipients, the subset being determined using a predetermined criterion," which might apply to Buddy Lists, an AIM (rather than TiK) convention.

Spokespeople at Dulles, Va.-based AOL did not return requests for comment by press time.

The patent issue comes just months after AOL raised concerns after receiving a patent on a system of Internet-based instant messaging communications, and on presence. Critics contend that the patent, No. 6,449,344, was unenforceable due to the wealth of pre-existing chat and IM systems -- but many still continue to worry that the online giant will leverage the patent to attack competitors or force them to pay licensing fees.

Enhancements to IM in AOL 8.0 Plus

The other major development at America Online comes in the form of its new "AOL For Broadband" product, which includes an updated version of its flagship online service geared toward power users, and designed to promote several important initiatives for the company.

For the first time, the built-in AOL IM client will support offline IM forwarding to SMS-equipped mobile devices, which has been available in AIM for several months. (That is, when a user logs off of PC-based IM, messages are then forwarded to their mobile device.) As with AIM, users can also add mobile phone numbers to their Buddy Lists, and IMs sent to that entry appear on the recipient's phone as SMS messages. While mobile message recipients can't respond to either of these messages, Cian Chang, America Online's director of clients, said those features are in the works.

America Online's Music@AOL and Video@AOL areas also are integrated with its IM client: for instance, streaming radio listeners can click a button to share the stream with Buddy List members, to listen in tandem.

AOL 8.0 Plus also will mark a renewed effort to encourage members to use AOL Alerts, which enables users to subscribe to IM, e-mail and SMS updates on weather, news and other types of content -- and which executives conceded had yet to be promoted significantly despite having been in the market for more than a year.

"We need to educate our members on features we already have in the field, but that they don't know about," Chang said.

Highlighting AOL Alerts represents an effort by the company to be a contender in an area seen by some as a growing competitive arena and a potential moneymaker. Microsoft (Quote, Company Info) has parlayed its .NET Alerts service -- which sends messages to MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger users -- into a channel for automated broadcast and narrowcast communications from third parties. Already, companies paying Microsoft for the rights to use the service include E*Trade (Quote, Company Info) and eBay (Quote, Company Info), while messaging players and alerting relays like Comverse and MessageCast also are leveraging .NET Alerts as a platform for their communications. Meanwhile, a number of startups are seeking to launch cross-network alerting platforms on their own.

In an offering geared for the teen crowd, AOL for Broadband also offers support for so-called "instant greetings," full-screen rich media animations that users can send to Buddy List members. (Not quite so different than the "flirts" in Microsoft's new teen-oriented, P2P messaging application, codenamed "threedegrees.")

For parents, the broadband service also offers reporting details of kids' IM use to parents as part of its Parental Controls feature -- including their Buddy Lists members, and how often they use IM.

AOL 8.0 Plus also will begin keeping a dynamically updated group of Buddies in users' Buddy Lists, based on the most recent AOL users to whom the user has sent e-mails, and users can add those Buddy Names to their permanent Buddy Lists. That way, AOL users can easily expand their lists of contacts -- and AOL can increase the number of active IM users.

Communicator released

AOL For Broadband also represents the official release of AOL Communicator -- the company's closely watched standalone e-mail and IM client, formerly known as "Photon."

Rather than being tailored to Aimed at AOL power users, Communicator doesn't have all the features available in the latest versions of AIM -- such as Direct IM and Connect to Talk -- but nevertheless represents an improvement over the America Online service's built-in IM client, with additions like support for file sharing.

The product also integrates notifications about new e-mail from contacts into the Buddy List -- which shows an icon if a user's inbox contains a message from a Buddy. Users can also group-select Buddy List members to send them an e-mail, which opens in Communicator. (AIM offers similar functionality but attempts to launch Netscape Mail, for which a user must be registered.)

"With AOL members, we've seen how one window stays open and people use it to monitor their communities," Chang said. "That had been their IM ... now, this lets them launch [e-mail] from their client."

AOL Communicator also integrates Buddy List presence into its e-mail side -- so, for instance, Communicator users can see at a glance whether others cc'd on an e-mail are online for a group discussion.

As with IM broadcast alerts, integration of presence into other communications and collaboration applications is becoming increasingly commonplace in the software industry: Microsoft Windows Messenger already offers similar, limited integration into its Outlook e-mail clients, and that sort of integration is only expected to increase with the next release of its Office productivity suite.

Christopher Saunders is managing editor of InstantMessagingPlanet.com.

Virtual Projects


Endeavros technology, 2003-04-01: Endeavors Technology, developer of Web-enabling solutions for enterprise network infrastructures, today announces a new contract win from Autodesk, the world's leading design software and digital content company. Its streaming applications on-demand, software is enabling the rapid, cost-effective, and piracy-free deployment and management of AutoCAD 2004 to a large pool of prospects. AutoCAD 2004 is a 2D drafting and detailing and 3D design tool used by more designers worldwide than any other CAD software.
Offering software on a trial basis is a common practice in the technology industry, and typically involves prospects either downloading a stripped version for concept evaluation or receiving a 30-day full product trial CD in the mail. Costs and follow-up tasks related to those trial methods can be substantial. Autodesk looked to Magi AppExpress technology to reduce trialware costs without compromising the quality of the user's experience. As a result, Autodesk is able to deliver more product, discover more customer opportunities and add more security to the AutoCAD 2004 trial process. The AutoCAD 2004 trialware being delivered using Magi AppExpress technology is not a demonstration product, but a completely functional version that includes the ability to create, view, save and plot files.
Endeavors Technology is a leader in developing Web-based products for transferring and sharing digital information. With its trialware delivery solution, Endeavors has provided Autodesk with a new efficient way to get to market while lowering costs of trialware projects.
The streaming technology of Magi AppExpress downloads AutoCAD 2004 components from trial site server to a PC on an "as needed" basis. The trial site automatically first checks that a PC satisfies the minimum requirements needed to install and run the streaming trial software. If it encounters any problems, it flags these errors and suggests how to correct them and proceed. When all the requirements are met, the streaming trial client and AutoCAD 2004 cache are downloaded to a virtual drive on the PC. Icons to access the AutoCAD 2004 trial and the accompanying Express Tools are placed on the desktop.