Cincom’s Smalltalk Team Welcomes BottomFeeder to the Add-ons and Applications Program

CINCINNATI, Ohio - August 10, 2005 - Cincom Systems today announced that BottomFeeder, an RSS/Atom news aggregator written in Cincom Smalltalkä VisualWorksâ for the purpose of reading syndicated content, has joined the Cincom Smalltalk Add-ons and Applications Program. The newly announced program is designed to promote applications written in Cincom Smalltalk and increase awareness for the wide variety of applications and industries using Smalltalk.

BottomFeeder supports all of the relevant standards in the RSS/Atom arena including all versions of RSS and Atom and the various methods for communicating with websites (Trackback, Pingback, RSS Text Input, and Comment API). It's a client news aggregator that allows you to easily track news, blogs, and product information. Tied in with all of the major search engines, BottomFeeder enables subscriptions to user-defined searches and allows end-users to define connections to other search engines as they appear. For more information about BottomFeeder, visit http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/BottomFeeder.
Benefits of blogs that are alternatively called weblogs or web logs:

James Robertson’s blog, Smalltalk Bits/Industry Rants, has been helping to promote Cincom and Cincom Smalltalk for three years. Smalltalk Bits/Industry Rants:

· Receives 5000+ page views per day
· Has at least 19,000 unique readers (as of July 2005)
· Has far more traffic than a typical main website
· Offers the minimal support that is required to run a blog
· Makes it faster and easier to update current content, as opposed to a
typical website
· Simplifies and accelerates the publishing process through the use of
blogs

James Robertson will be discussing BottomFeeder and the benefits of blogs at the upcoming European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) Conference, in Brussels, Belgium. For more information, visit www.esug.org.

If you are interested in participating in the Add-ons and Applications Program and have an application written in Cincom Smalltalk ObjectStudioâ, Cincom Smalltalk VisualWorksâ, or Visual Smalltalkâ Enterprise, please submit your application at http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/survey/partnerStart.

About BottomFeeder

BottomFeeder is a news aggregator developed in Cincom Smalltalk VisualWorks for people who would like to track news and information that is available via xml syndication. BottomFeeder has been reviewed by PC World Review, C’T Magazine, Mac In Touch, Computerworld, ZDNet, and Mac NN. It supports multiple platforms including Windows 2000/XP, Windows CE, Mac OS, Mac OS X, x86 Linux, PPC Linux, AIX, and many others. For more information, contact James Robertson at jarober@gmail.com.

About Cincom

For nearly 40 years, Cincom's software and services have helped thousands of clients worldwide simplify the management of complex business processes. Cincom specializes in the five areas of business where simplification brings the greatest value to managers who want to grow revenue, control costs, minimize risk, and achieve rapid ROI better than their competitors.

Cincom serves thousands of clients on six continents including BMW, Citibank, Boeing (NYSE: BA), Northwestern Mutual, Federal Express (NYSE:FDX), Ericsson, Penn State University, Messier-Dowty, Siemens, Rockwell Automation, and Trane.

For more information about Cincom's products and services, contact Cincom at 1-800-2CINCOM (USA only), send an e-mail to info@cincom.com, or visit the company's website at www.cincom.com.

Contacts:

Cincom Systems, Inc.
Suzanne Fortman
949-722-8928
sfortman@cincom.com
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