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Progressive Software Solutions, LLC was formed in January of 1999. It is an employee owned company. That is, the people who work on every aspect of production, service, sales and administration are part owners of the company. These members bring to the company extensive experience and knowledge of networking technologies and software development. We are all from the greater Washington DC area and Northern Virginia - the birthplace of the Internet. At our web site, you've seen the wide variety of operating systems our products will run on. This alone, displays the extensiveness of our technology experience. PSS has issued over 1000 software licenses in more than 24 countries in the past two years. Here we chronicle our successes....

September 2002:

PSS releases version 5.03 of BrowserExpress. This new version includes WebBook a group address book. PSS has also improved support for various MIME Content Types used by today's mail servers.

June 2001:

PSS releases version 2.53 of pssRecruit. With this minor upgrade release pssRecruit provides enhanced support for newer Netscape web browsers. pssRecruit users will also find an improved default interface along with updated on-line documentation.

May 2001:

PSS releases version 2.52 of pssRecruit. With this release, PSS fixed a bug in the download packages and improved the installation and product documentation.
PSS delivered a custom-built web-based form handling application to a premier travel management firm. This application streamlines the company's necessary information collection effort and offers a valuable service to their valued customers.

April 2001:

PSS releases Version 2.51 of pssRecruit, adding enhanced support for older browsers and improved customization. pssRecruit is the job posting application to make you look good. New features include:
- Integrated search capability
- Customizable sorting of reports
- Greater control and flexibility of record names to support more file systems
- Enhanced support for older browsers
PSS offers Installation and Customization services for BrowserExpress and pssRecruit. To help reduce the total cost of ownership for customers with a limited IT staff. Customization is priced per unit based on complexity of the customer's requirement. Installation is a one-time add on charge with the purchase of a product license.
PSS releases version 2.51 of pssSearch. pssSearch, formerly known as SearchExpress, now has improved support for special characters entered into search strings.

March 2001:

PSS releases Version 4.03 of BrowserExpress, adding significantly improved customization of the BrowserExpress web-based interface and messages. The new features include:
- Support for Header file include in all dynamically generated pages.
- Support for Footer file include in all dynamically generated pages.
- Support for CSS / Style Sheets in all dynamically generated pages.
- Support for Text insertion in all outgoing e-mail messages.
PSS delivered a custom-built web-based recruiting application to one of Chicago's major executive search firms. The PSS development team developed and delivered this custom application on time, the way the customer wanted it.

February 2001:

PSS releases version 2.5 of pssRecruit , a smarter way to manage your recruiting. Features include:

Runs on any CGI-capable Web Server
Affordable - less than the price of most one-time newspaper employment advertisements.
Improve the productivity and results of recruiters/hiring managers.
Dramatically reduce job-advertising costs.
Absolutely NO maintenance
Easily customized and integrated with your existing Web site.
Makes it easy for candidates to find positions they seek.
Makes it easy for you to manage positions.
Manage your own job postings; control when and how they appear on your company Web site.
Support for Linux, Unix, and NT/2000 Web Server platforms

PSS re-names SearchExpress to pssSearch

November 2000:

PSS releases version 4.0 of BrowserExpress, the world leader in Web-based e-mail. New or improved features include:

Large attachment handling.
Pop3 password encryption.
Fewer required configuration elements.
Enhanced support for slow mailserver.
Cleaner and faster interface.
Selectable logout function. User can exit or go to new web page of user choice.
Enhanced sorting of message list, sort by date, from, etc.

September 2000:

PSS releases version 2.5 of pssSearch. The world leader in Web-based e-mail, now offers a best-value, Web-based search tool.

August 2000:

Let PSS host your Web-Based e-mail capability
- PSS can configure, brand and host BrowserExpress, the world leader in Web-based e-mail on our servers, making it immediately available to your Web-site visitors without any effort for you. Check it out.
PSS releases Version 3.31 of BrowserExpress and BrowserExpress Enterprise License
- Added an "EXIT" button which exits the browser after warning the user.
- Fixed the missing "close" button on the help window when using Netscape
- Fixed the "Bare LF" problem
- Keyed .ini file to program name
- Used $ENV{'sourceExe'} for UNIX platforms and $ENV{'SOURCEEXE'} for NT platforms

June 2000:

PSS releases version 3.30 of BrowserExpress. Updated Features:
- Multiple Languages now available by changing the .ini file.
  - English
  - Spanish
  - German
  - Italian
  - French
- Netscape Friendly--user interface looks the same on new and old versions of Netscape and MS Internet Explorer.
- Removed "Please remember...." text from login screen
- Removed the text boxes in the message area to give that area a cleaner look
- Hot Linked URLs and e-mail addresses in message text
- Moved Send and Forward buttons to the top of the user interface
- Added "Find" button if LDAP is enabled.
- Easily select multiple messages for deletion
PSS releases Cobalt Linux Binary of BrowserExpress

April 2000:

PSS releases SuSE Binary of BrowserExpress

March 2000

PSS releases Version 3.20 of BrowserExpress and
BrowserExpress Enterprise License
New Features in Version 3.20:
- Multi-Language-Capability
  - Choice of language controlled by you
  - NO changes to the BrowserExpress engine to change language
  - English currently available
  - Spanish, German, Italian, French, and Portuguese versions available soon
  - Brazilian Portuguese currently available as a separate product
- Enhanced Interface--customize and Brand it to suit you
- Mail border
- Use your own images to replace the navy colored solid line that separates output sections of BrowserExpress.
- Use your own background for the user interface.
- Prompts users for their e-mail address when it is different than their POP3 account name.
Features of BrowserExpress Enterprise License:
- Supports unlimited users AND unlimited domains from one server
- ISPs and Web-hosting companies can now offer uniquely branded services such as:
- Hidden POP3-authenticated SMTP
- All for only $250

February 2000:

Press Release--PSS is Riding the Dot Com Wave

December 1999:

PSS offers for FREE the directory services component used within BrowserExpress. We call it LDAP-Express. LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, and it is commonly used to communicate with databases that contain e-mail addresses. Several public databases also exist. One example is ldap.bigfoot.com. Odds are good that your corporate e-mail also uses an LDAP database. Download LDAP-Express. The software is written in perl.

November 1999:

Version 3.01 of BrowserExpress includes the following improvements:
Native support for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Search Capability
Your LDAPserver added to the .ini file
MailAttribute = mail added to the .ini file
Added TO: line to message header information when reading, replying or forwarding
Added CC: line to message header information when reading, replying or forwarding
Added BCC: line to the New Message and message header information when reading, replying or forwarding.

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