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Concord, Massachusetts
Concord is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 17,668. Although a small town, Concord is noted for its leading roles in American history and literature.-History:...
, the company was founded in 1997 and was purchased by Interland (now Web.com
Web.com
Web.com, Inc , formerly Interland , was a provider of websites and web services to small businesses and consumers, based in Atlanta, Georgia. Web.com's services included do-it-yourself and professional website design, web hosting, e-commerce, web marketing, and e-mail...
) in 2003.
In March, 2004 Interland closed the Trellix subsidiary.
Trellix Web
Founded in 1997 by software pioneer Dan Bricklin, Trellix's first product was Trellix, a program designed to allow companies to develop and manage information on corporate intranetIntranet
An intranet is a computer network that uses Internet Protocol technology to securely share any part of an organization's information or network operating system within that organization. The term is used in contrast to internet, a network between organizations, and instead refers to a network...
s. Many users of the program desired to use this same idea to create personal websites. This led to the creation of Trellix Web (codenamed Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
), a downloadable, client-based software tool. Trellix offered several versions of Trellix Web software:
- free versions (2.0 - 2.7) which would publish only to specific web publishers with which Trellix had arranged business deals, such as Fortune City and Tripod. Dozens of co-branded versions of the free Trellix Web software were released for various business partners, the most popular of which was included with Dell and HPHewlett-PackardHewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
computers and with Corel's WordPerfect with v 2.0.
- paid versions. The paid versions were available online sold directly by Trellix, and sold with a book: Trellix Web Site Creation Kit book (with CD-ROM) had two different versions. Though similar, the publishing options were completely different.
- Prentice Hall Edition of 2.7PA allowed the user to define a host (per page 121)
- Prentice Hall Edition of 2.7 version, like the free version of the software, was tied to only certain web hosts.
The only version of Trellix that was sold to consumers was 2.7. And only PA (Publish Anywhere) version allowed the user to define the host. 2.7PA was not included in bundled software packages and it is the only version of Trellix that can still publish to new sites.
Eventually, Trellix completely abandoned development of "Trellix Web" in favor of "Trellix Web Express", the online software, selling the rights to "Trellix Web" to GlobalSCAPE
GlobalSCAPE
GlobalSCAPE, Inc. is a software company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. The company's products are considered part of the managed file transfer category, on which Gartner and Aberdeen Group have recently published reports....
so the product could be sold under the name CuteSITE Builder (CSB). This software was sold as version 3, 4 and 5 but was discontinued June 30, 2006 which ended the line of PC installed Trellix software.
Support for the free and paid versions of the PC software is still available on free support sites and forums.
Trellix Web Express
In 2001, Trellix developed Trellix Web Express, a web-based version of the Trellix Web software, based in part on software purchased from LycosLycos
Lycos, Inc. is a search engine and web portal established in 1994. Lycos also encompasses a network of email, webhosting, social networking, and entertainment websites.-Corporate history:...
's Tripod.com
Tripod.com
Tripod.com is a web hosting service owned by Lycos. Originally aiming its services to college students and young adults, it was one of several sites trying to build online communities during the dot-com bubble...
division. (This deal was structured such that Tripod, at the time one of the largest homepage providers online, would be the initial licensee of the new product.) Utilizing JavaScript
JavaScript
JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....
and allowing published changes to be seen in real-time, Trellix Web Express was designed to be easy-to-use without having to download a fairly large client program
Client (computing)
A client is an application or system that accesses a service made available by a server. The server is often on another computer system, in which case the client accesses the service by way of a network....
. Some free web portal
Web portal
A web portal or links page is a web site that functions as a point of access to information in the World Wide Web. A portal presents information from diverse sources in a unified way....
s still use Trellix Web Express, although it is often co-branded to remove the Trellix name from the product.
At its peak, Trellix developed the Web Express product in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, and Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
. However, work on the non-English versions was not profitable and was discontinued after the 3.x release.
As in the year 2007, Trellix Web Express appears as "Site Builder" or "Trellix Site Builder". The corresponding web site www.trellix.com now links directly to the offers of Web.com
Web.com
Web.com, Inc , formerly Interland , was a provider of websites and web services to small businesses and consumers, based in Atlanta, Georgia. Web.com's services included do-it-yourself and professional website design, web hosting, e-commerce, web marketing, and e-mail...
.
Trellix also licensed the rights to Blogger, a popular blog
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
-development tool, in April 2001.
Interland
In 2003, web hosting company Interland, which changed its name to Web.comWeb.com
Web.com, Inc , formerly Interland , was a provider of websites and web services to small businesses and consumers, based in Atlanta, Georgia. Web.com's services included do-it-yourself and professional website design, web hosting, e-commerce, web marketing, and e-mail...
after buying the company with that name, purchased Trellix, and continues to use patented products of Trellix today. As of June 30, 2006, Web.com
Web.com
Web.com, Inc , formerly Interland , was a provider of websites and web services to small businesses and consumers, based in Atlanta, Georgia. Web.com's services included do-it-yourself and professional website design, web hosting, e-commerce, web marketing, and e-mail...
refused to continue the licensing arrangement with GlobalSCAPE
GlobalSCAPE
GlobalSCAPE, Inc. is a software company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. The company's products are considered part of the managed file transfer category, on which Gartner and Aberdeen Group have recently published reports....
for the PC installed version of the Trellix Web software, retitled CuteSITE Builder (CSB), per notice posted on the GlobalSCAPE
GlobalSCAPE
GlobalSCAPE, Inc. is a software company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. The company's products are considered part of the managed file transfer category, on which Gartner and Aberdeen Group have recently published reports....
support forum.