Push has come and gone, but there are still a few hardy vendors selling products for those determined enough to keep pushing. This listing is current as of July 20, 2000. If you know of any additional technologies or companies who have gone to the great beyond, please drop me email. There is also a list of links at the bottom of this page to other resources. In the meantime, you can read other stuff on push publishing I've written and get the true historical perspective on many of the push companies of yesteryear.
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Company (link) |
Product Name |
Client Platforms |
Server Platforms |
Notification and/or Delivery |
Description |
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7 am Ticker |
Java-enabled browser |
None |
Delivery only |
News feeds, choice of headlines and channels |
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AfterDark Online |
Mac, Win95/98 |
None |
Delivery only |
Discontinued product |
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iFusion |
ArrIve |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Both |
Out of business |
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Castanet |
Win95,98,NT, Solaris, Linux |
Win95,98,NT, Solaris, Linux |
Both |
Complete development environment for delivering applications and customized channels of information |
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Communicator |
Win |
any web server |
Notification only |
Out of business. |
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DataChannel |
any Java-enabled browser |
any Java 1.1 server |
Both |
A corporate intranet solution to create and manage unlimited numbers of channels with real-time information push using XML. |
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Desktop News |
Windows 3.1, 95, 98, NT |
None required |
Both |
Customized news deliveries to the desktop |
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Diffusion/Multi-Channel Server |
Win95/98, Win 3.1, WinNT, Java client, fax client |
WinNT, Solairs |
Both |
Combines push and pull technologies and offers a variety of notification methods, incorporated into the Vignette server line in 1999 |
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US Interactive |
Digital Bindery |
Win95/98, Win NT, Win 3.1, Mac |
None |
Notification |
Out of business. |
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Downtown |
Win95 |
Unknown |
Delivery only |
Absorbed by Tibco and disappeared |
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Driveway |
Win, Mac AOL clients |
None |
Both |
Using Microsoft's CDF to deliver content to AOL users. Never released. |
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e-Parcel Basic Service |
Win95,98,NT |
Win95,98,NT, Linux |
Both |
Allows simple drag, drop, and delivery of any size or type of file directly to the desktop. |
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FlashSite |
Win95/98 |
None |
Delivery only |
Off-line browser with scheduled updates |
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Gigex Manager |
all Win |
None |
Delivery only |
Bulk scheduled file transfer |
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HeadLiner |
Win95,98,NT |
coming soon |
Both |
Absorbed into Backweb family of products. |
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Tierra |
Highlights |
Win 95, Win NT |
None |
Both |
Out of business |
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INCISA DataBridge |
Win95, WinNT |
WinNT |
Both |
Disappeared after multiple corporate mergers |
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InfoBeat |
any browser |
None |
Delivery only |
Customized content delivered to one's email box, configured via browser. |
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Amulet |
InfoWizard |
any browser, email client |
None |
Delivery only |
Out of business. |
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Inquisit/Farcast |
Inquisit |
any POP email client |
None |
Both |
Customized newspaper using agents to retrieve articles via email, out of business. |
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Instant Delivery |
Win95,98, NT |
none |
Both |
Schedules and delivers printed documents to your printer |
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Sourcecraft |
Intellicraft |
Win95, Win NT, Java |
Win 95, Win NT |
Both |
Out of business. |
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Intelliserv |
any web browser |
WinNT |
Delivery only |
Absorbed into Agent Server product line |
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Intercast |
Win with special hardware adapter |
None |
Both |
Viewing of TV and web content together |
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I-Server |
Win95/98, Win 3.1 |
WinNT |
Both |
Now client-only solution part of Entrypoint product |
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Javaticker |
any Java browser |
None |
Notification only |
Stock and news ticker |
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Kangaroo Software |
Kangaroo Punch |
unknown |
unknown |
Both |
Delivering and sharing files over the net, seems to be gone. |
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The Internet Co. |
Messenger |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Delivery only |
Out of business. |
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MyWay |
MyWay |
Win95 |
None |
Delivery only |
Out of business. |
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Net Attache Pro |
all Win |
WinNT |
Delivery only |
Off-line browser with agents and filters |
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NetCaster |
Win95/98, WinNT, Mac, Solaris |
WinNT, Solaris, Irix |
Both |
Creates an active desktop and incorporates Marimba and PointCast technologies for delivery and notification |
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NetPresenter |
Win |
Win |
Both |
Slide presentation designer that builds screen savers |
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SoftReach |
NetReach |
Win |
Win |
Notification only |
LAN-based screen savers, out of business. |
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Netriever |
unknown |
None |
Delivery only |
Discontinued |
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NewsEdge |
Win95/98, Win 3.1 |
None |
Delivery only |
Consolidated news delivery from hundreds of sources |
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NewsCast |
Windows, Mac |
Special hardware |
Both |
Hardware-based product to deliver news feeds via FM and satelite side-band |
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Niagra |
Java-based |
Unknown |
Both |
Real-time news feed delivery to desktops, disappeared. |
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One-to-One |
Win95/98, WinNT |
Solaris, SGI Irix |
Both |
Complete development environment for delivering customized information |
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Firefly |
Passport |
any web browser |
WinNT, Solaris, Irix |
Notification only |
Agents that can be programmed for both pull and push publishing, out of business. |
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Personify/Affinicast |
unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Transformed into something other than push. |
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Polite Agent |
Win95/98 |
Win95 and Solaris combo |
Both |
Especially good for delivering multimedia content but server piece is complex. |
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Posta/IME |
any email and web browser |
unknown |
Notification only |
Emails URLs, now part of Integrated Messaging Exchange line. |
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Pushcache |
Linux |
Linux, Solaris |
Delivery only |
Information provisioning application toolkit using push and enhanced pull. |
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Slingshot |
Java, Active-X, NSCP Plug-in |
Win NT |
Both |
Real time stock and news feeds |
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Smart Delivery |
Win95, Win NT, Win 3.1, Mac |
Win NT, Solaris |
Both |
Discontinued |
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TIB series |
Various |
Both |
Multicast IP publishing development environment |
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Avesta/Caravelle |
Transceive |
Win95, WinNT |
None |
Both |
Discontinued |
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UnityMail |
Win95/98, Win NT, Win 3.1 |
Win NT |
Both |
Can deliver information to email as well as web clients, also stage content delivery depending on when a user subscribes |
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WebCast |
any web browser |
Win NT |
Both |
Discontinued. |
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WebEx |
Win95 |
None |
Delivery only |
DISCONTINUED |
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Web Transporter |
Mac, all Win, UNIX, Java |
Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX |
Both |
Combines agent push and pull capabilities with advanced tracking, management and version control, out of business. |
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WebWhacker |
Mac, all Win |
None |
Delivery only |
Off-line browser, discontinued |
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WorldFlash |
Win 95,98,NT |
None |
Delivery only |
News ticker |
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ZipDelivery |
Win95,98,NT |
None |
Both |
Discontinued |
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