PSINet Enhances International Web Site Development and Management Solutions for Small and Medium Sized Businesses
Business Wire - June 16, 1999 12:17
HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 1999--
Combines Support for Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Web Site Tool With
Chili!Soft's UNIX-based Active Server Pages Solutions
PSINet Inc. (NASDAQ: PSIX), the first and largest independent facilities-based commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP) and one of Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ: MSFT) leading FrontPage Web Presence Providers, today announced support for FrontPage 2000, the newest version of Microsoft's popular Web site creation and management tool. In addition, PSINet announced plans to integrate these new tools with its Active Server Pages (ASP) capabilities offered through a separate and previously-announced (April 26, 1999) agreement with Chili!Soft(tm) Inc.
This PSINet Web development product line enhancement will enable small and medium-sized businesses to more easily build and manage Web sites, and to develop and deploy database-driven Internet applications using a variety of popular languages and tools that generate ASP code.
FrontPage 2000 is a comprehensive Web site creation and management tool that meets the needs of both beginners and advanced users through the delivery of ease of use, enhanced site management and reporting, and tight integration with Microsoft Office 2000. PSINet's users of FrontPage 2000 will be able to take advantage of industry-leading features such as Dynamic HTML, positioning and layering using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 2.0, customized Themes, and easy integration of forms and databases into their sites.
As with previous versions of FrontPage, PSINet will continue to support its business customers with PSINet's Shared Web Hosting Service, the industry's original fully-managed hosting service backed by a 100 percent uptime guarantee. Based on a distributed architecture, the services feature geographically dispersed Web servers and redundant Internet connectivity. Integrated with PSINet's international network, the unique design of PSINet's distributed Web platform provides the architecture upon with this industry-leading shared hosting service guarantee is based.
Chili!Soft gives PSINet customers the ability to use ASP applications written with a variety of popular tools including Microsoft FrontPage and outsource them on PSINet's Shared Hosting UNIX servers in PSINet's international Global Hosting Centers. Building on the recent Chili!Soft announcement, PSINet now offers ASP capabilities in both Dedicated and Shared Hosting environments. This allows PSINet's customers to develop and deploy database-driven Internet applications using a variety of popular languages and tools that generate ASP code.
The combination of PSINet's Shared Hosting services, the latest FrontPage 2000 advanced features, and UNIX system ASP support from Chili!Soft enable businesses to easily create, manage and publish professional Web sites through a single easy-to-use interface. PSINet's Shared Hosting services support the FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions to provide an environment that supports remote, multi-user authoring, as well as advanced server-side functionality that would otherwise require programming, such as full text search, a page hit counter, discussion groups and forms. New features enabled with FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions include enhanced database support, the Categories component, and file check-in and check-out.
"As businesses require more sophisticated Internet and Web capabilities, comprehensive and flexible solutions like PSINet's Shared Web Hosting combined with Web tools like FrontPage and Chili!Soft ASP allow businesses to build and manage professional-quality Web sites that truly reflect the nature and strength of growing businesses," said Michael Mael, vice president, Applications and Web Services for PSINet Inc. "These companies, which are usually small- and medium-sized businesses, increasingly look to their ISP for complete start-to-finish robust Web site solutions and outsourced hosting of Web services and other business applications," Mael added.
Utilizing its international Global Hosting Center architecture, PSINet has been successfully hosting applications such as electronic commerce, multimedia, managed security, and intranets for several years. Most recently (May 17, 1999), PSINet added outsourced e-mail and managed messaging as its newest fully-managed business applications.
"We are delighted to see PSINet's strong support of FrontPage," said Tom Bailey, lead product manager for FrontPage, Microsoft Corp. "The combination of FrontPage 2000, Chili!Soft ASP, and PSINet's international Shared Hosting service offers our customers a robust environment for creating, managing and hosting Web sites," he added.
Headquartered in Herndon, VA, PSINet is a global Internet data communications carrier focused on the business marketplace. PSINet offers a broad set of high-speed corporate LAN connectivity services supporting managed security and guaranteed Internet, intranet, electronic commerce, Web hosting services, and services for other carriers and ISPs. PSINet operates an international technologically advanced frame relay and ATM-based, IP-optimized network consisting of more than 535 POPs around the world serving primary markets in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Republic of Korea, Switzerland, the United States, and the United Kingdom. PSINet information can be obtained by e-mail at info@psi.com, by accessing the Web site at psinet.com or by calling toll free 1-800-799-0675.
CONTACT: PSINet Inc., Herndon
Media Contact:
Michael P. Binko
703-904-4285
binkom@psi.com
or
PSINet Inc., Herndon
Analyst Contact:
Kelli Harrington Nemer
703-375-1245
harringtonk@psi.com
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