Sophisticated Circuits Announces New Reliability Plug-Ins

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Sophisticated Circuits, Inc. Announces New Reliability Plug-Ins

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, Oct 5, 2000 -- at 4D/WebSTAR Summit 2000 -- Sophisticated Circuits, Inc. today announced new plug-ins for 4th Dimension and WebSTAR, which make it even easier for developers and administrators to integrate Kick-off!^TM support directly into their mission-critical applications.
Sophisticated Circuits, Inc. is proud to be a sponsor of this week's 4D and WebSTAR Summit Conferences, and to show its continuing support for these pillars of the Macintosh development community. Company representatives will be on-hand to demonstrate and offer special conference pricing on Kick-off!, its newest auto-recovery product for USB Macs.
Kick-off! is a hardware/software solution, which continuously monitors unattended computers for problems, and automatically relaunches failed applications, cleanly restarts the system, or hard reboots the computer, as necessary, and also includes powerful logging & remote notification capabilities.
Kick-off! detects application crashes using a unique, two-level approach -- Automatic monitoring and Application Watchdog Timer monitoring. Automatic monitoring intercepts any application crash that typically results in the "Application Unexpectedly Quit" error message. Application Watchdog Timer monitoring goes further, using patent-pending "AppTimers" to detect additional error conditions which can cause an application to fail without actually quitting. This requires that developers add a few simple calls to their programs to let Kick-off! monitor their internal workings.
The new 4D plug-in makes it easy for 4D developers to add this support within their custom applications, and the new W*API plug-in provides this support to any WebSTAR API-compatible application. Beta versions of both plug-ins are available at <http://www.sophisticated.com/support/downloads/sw_misc.html>
Kick-off! has an estimated street price of US$179. Special 4D/WebSTAR Summit pricing is available at the conference. Further information about Sophisticated Circuits may be found at <http://www.sophisticated.com/>, by calling +425-485-7979, by e-mailing , or by faxing to +425-485-7172.
Founded in 1984, Sophisticated Circuits, Inc. is a privately-held corporation located in Woodinville, WA, which develops elegant, highly-integrated hardware/software tools that enhance the reliability, remote access and automation capabilities of servers and personal computers. Kick-off! is a trademark of Sophisticated Circuits, Inc.
The 2000 4D Summit and WebSTAR Summit takes place in San Diego, California October 4-8. In addition to a deep conference program, 4D Inc., publishers of the 4th Dimension RAD/RDBMS Environment and the WebSTAR Server Suite, will be detailing their plans for OS X at the conference. This will be the first in-depth look the public will have at both 4D and WebSTAR for OS X.