SCC installs MediaServer Express Edition at The Wilmington Star News, N.C.

October 3, 2007

ALPHARETTA, GA., (October 3, 2007) -- The Software Construction Company (SCC) is pleased to announce the sale and installation of their SCC MediaServer Express Edition system at The Wilmington Star News, N.C. (circ. 55k [m-sat], 60k [sun])

In order to keep the cost of MediaServer Express Edition as low as possible SCC has tied the product to Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services, which is a free, downloadable, easy-to-use, and lightweight version of SQL Server 2005 with a maximum database size of 4 GB, sufficient to hold 400,000 objects.

With the new MediaServer Express Edition, SCC expects to target companies that either do not have the need for the larger capacity MediaServer Enterprise system, or that initially wish to start out small but with a view to upgrading to the Enterprise Edition at a later time.

The SCC MediaServer Express Edition system includes the following components:

  • SCC MediaServer Express Edition with SQL Server Full Text Search
  • 5 Concurrent Power User licenses
  • 10 Concurrent Lightweight User licenses
  • SCC MediaFactory
  • Unlimited installations of SCC MediaGrid on Windows or Mac OSX (at the licensed site
  • SCC Web Browser Access Module

About SCC

SCC is based in Alpharetta, Georgia and develops and markets a suite of Windows, Linux, and Macintosh media management tools and utilities world-wide. SCC’s products are used by newspapers, magazines, TV networks, photo agencies, Internet content providers and various corporations.

In the USA, SCC's customers include The National Enquirer, Star and Globe Magazines (American Media Inc.), Sports Illustrated and People Magazines (AOL Time Warner), InTouch Magazine (Bauer Publishing), The Dallas Morning News, The Detroit Free Press, The St. Petersburg Times, The Seattle Times, The Sacramento, Fresno and Modesto Bees, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Associated Press, McClatchy/Tribune Information Services, Reuters, UPI, Dow Jones, ABC Television, NBC Television, Universal Studios, Walt Disney Television, US News & World Report, USA Today, The White House, Camp Fallujah (Iraq), the Marine base at Quantico, and many more.

Outside the USA, SCC has distributors covering Australia, Europe, the Far East, and Central and South America.


Technical Contact: SCC

Lee Funnell, Vice President
770.751.8500 ext. 145
leef@swcc.com
http://www.swcc.com

The Software Construction Company, 3810 Hamby Road, Alpharetta, Georgia (USA) 30004
Telephone:
770.751.8500 Fax: 770.772.6800 Email: sales@swcc.com