BEAS gets another customer in Europe,
European Personalized Email Service Provider another.com Upgrades to BEA Software as Users Top 1.5 Million After First Year
BEA Chosen to Support Rapidly Expanding User Base and Accelerate Time-to-Market While Reducing Costs
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jul 5, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS chart, msgs), one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, today announced that another.com, which provides fun, personalized email access aimed at the European youth market, has upgraded to BEA WebLogic(R) Server, the world's number one J2EE application server. The change was needed to support the tremendous growth in another.com's user base, which has expanded to more than 1.5 million registered users in little more than a year.
Founded in the UK in May 1999 as an alternative to the traditional email services provided by other Internet Service Providers, another.com offers users the ability to choose up to 20 distinctive email addresses from 15,000 domain names. As proof of its appeal to the youth market, the another.com site is handling more than 70,000 unique user log-ins everyday.
"As a young company with a unique value proposition, we have had tremendous growth during our first year, exceeding 1.5 million users," said Steve Bowbrick, another.com's CEO. "Our users are primarily young people, 75 percent under the age of 25, who are motivated by control and choice. We selected BEA WebLogic for its reliability and scalability to support the 150,000 to 300,000 email messages that are being sent each day. In addition, BEA WebLogic enabled another.com to completely re-engineer our site using Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) architecture. This provided us with greater flexibility to make changes to the site in real-time. We lowered our development costs, and yet are delivering services to market faster than ever."
"We are pleased to provide the technology foundation for young, dynamic companies such as another.com, which have learned the lessons of the first wave of dot-coms and understand the importance of a strong software infrastructure in building their business," said Alan Banks, managing director of the UK and Ireland for BEA Systems, Inc. "BEA WebLogic is a solid, scalable yet extremely flexible foundation designed to support another.com as it develops and grows in the future. That is the essence of what we mean when we say BEA helps 'future-proof' businesses."
About another.com
Launched in the UK in May 1999 and headquartered in London, another.com offers users free, private, worldwide email access. Another.com is the #1 Web site for young Internet users in the UK. Users may create up to 20 email addresses, chosen from more than 15,000 domain names, capturing every aspect of life: pop culture, music, sport, misbehaving, politics, love, health, activism, clubbing, shopping, flirting, raving and slacking. For more information, visit www.another.com. |
