SWEDEN, Feb. 22. 2001 (PRIMEZONE) -- Roxen Internet Software is first to support US and European companies that want to serve Asian markets with the same servers and sites. Full Unicode support integrated with the graphics subsystem in Roxen Platform is the key to supporting Asian character sets.
Roxen Internet Software today announced the support for Asian character sets in Roxen Platform 2.1, a leading Web Content Management software. The announcement was made in conjunction with MacWorld Tokyo and Roxen IS' cooperation with Apple Computer. Roxen Platform has previously been announced for Mac OS X, making it the first Web Content Management system available on Mac OS X.
International corporations benefit from being able to serve the world from one Web location. Cost, consistency and speed of change improve when national web sites are consolidated to one. Support for Asian character sets is a prerequisite for true multilingual support. A Web designer can even work on user interfaces without understanding the language, thanks to the tight integration of Unicode and graphics in Roxen Platform.
"Asian character sets are an important part of our extensive multilingual support, enabled by our unique graphics. Roxen Platform allows corporations to serve the world from one location, lowering costs and making it easy to maintain consistency and swift updates", said Lars Hoegberg, CEO of Roxen Internet Software.
Roxen Platform blurs the boundary between text and graphics. It is not only capable of personalizing text information, but also graphics at run-time, based on a visitor's access privileges and profile, and serves custom content tailored to the browser in a computer, phone, PDA or other web access device.
The technology for web graphics built into Roxen Platform can create navigation bars and buttons, resize and convert images to formats supported by the browser. Web designers will be free to concentrate on design, rather than building several versions of their site. They will simply save their master graphics on the server and Roxen automates the transformation of graphics to navigation bars, buttons etc.
For content authoring Roxen Platform seamlessly integrates with the favorite tools that web designers and content authors are accustomed to working with. For instance, a web designer can start working on an image in Photoshop by simply pressing edit in Roxen Platform's web based interface. The image will automatically be downloaded and loaded into Photoshop. After modification, the image is uploaded back to the server through simply pressing save in Photoshop, without using a separate FTP client. The native Photoshop image is transformed into a JPEG by the server before it is sent to a web browser, since the Platform is able to dynamically convert images from one format to another.
Roxen Platform has a strong collaborative web site building environment that includes templates, workflow, access control, work areas and versioning. As opposed to other Web Content Management vendors that force customers to mix and match pieces and integrate them over a period of months, Roxen Platform is a comprehensive toolset that includes all of the pieces needed to build and maintain dynamic web sites, and it is powerful enough to power even the world's most popular sites.
Roxen Platform 2.1 is the world's most comprehensive Web server software suite for collaborative Web Content Management, offering scalability, state-of-the-art security, high-performance and multi-lingual capabilities, now including Asian character sets.
Roxen Internet Software develops and markets next-generation software platforms for the building and maintenance of dynamic web sites. Roxen IS focuses on Telecom, New Media and Bank & Finance. The unique technology base of Roxen IS is broad enough to define Web Content Management as including support for Web site development and the support of any client, including wireless clients, and all types of complex web services, including ASPs. Strategic customers include UUNET, RealNetworks, Ericsson, ABB Finance, Freeler (ING Group) and Holland Media Group (RTL). Roxen IS has sales headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, R&D in Linkoeping, Sweden, and sales offices in San Jose, USA, London, UK and Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The company has received numerous awards, among them "Best of Comdex".
For more information please visit www.roxen.com.