Nice to see XPDR mentioned in an ISLD press release, even if they don't have the name spelled correctly in the heading.
biz.yahoo.com
Tuesday November 2, 7:50 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Digital Island Announces Global Partner Program, Empowering System Integrators, Resellers With E-Network Services
Prominent I-Builders Lante, Expedior to Gain Proven E-Business Expertise and Ensure Clients Deliver Fast, Consistent, Reliable, Customer Experience
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1999-- Digital Island, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISLD - news), a leading provider of network services for globalizing e-Business applications, announced today its Global Partner Program (GPP), to expand its market reach worldwide by enabling Web Design Firms, Internet System Integrators, Consultants and Resellers to offer Digital Island's e-Network services.
Initial GPP members include Lante Corp., and Xpedior(TM) Inc. who can now enhance their expertise in globalizing e-Business and ensure clients deliver the right content, to the right customer, at the right time.
The program offers a comprehensive set of training, marketing and support services which allows Web Design Firms, Internet System Integrators, Consultants and Resellers (I-Builders) to offer their customers' robust global content delivery services, application hosting and intelligent network services.
``Using Digital Island's e-Network services, I-Builders can eliminate the many technical complexities of globally deploying e-Business initiatives and building brands for their clients,' said Ruann F. Ernst, president and CEO of Digital Island.
``Leveraging our e-Network services for the global delivery of locally relevant content, I-Builders can create Web-site experiences in an end-user's native language, for instance, wherever they are on the planet.'
Digital Island's Global Partner program enables I-Builders to:
--Leverage Digital Island's world-class networking expertise
through technical training, access to Digital Island Solutions Engineers, and participation in beta programs;
--Provide customers more value-added services, such as TraceWare, the first geographically Intelligent Network mapping application Service;
--Offer clients Digital Island's Streaming Media Network Services, which enables end users to effectively stream on-demand audio and video with high performance quality;
--Attract new customers through joint marketing and sales opportunities.
``Digital Island's Global Partner Program is a great fit within Lante's strategy of building alliances with world-class partners for the benefit of our dot-com clients,' said Rudy Puryear, CEO of Lante. ``The scalability of Digital Island's e-Network services and access to early releases of Digital Island's products will help us keep our customers ahead of the e-Business curve.'
Lante Corporation (www.lante.com) builds high-impact dot-com businesses that unleash electronic markets for the new economy, enabling clients to boost revenue, reduce costs and deepen relationships with customers, suppliers and other key business partners by leveraging the Internet.
Lante generated more than $25 million in revenues over the past four quarters. It is based in Chicago and has offices in Charlotte, Dallas, New York, San Francisco and Seattle, with new locations in development.
Xpedior Incorporated provides innovative, comprehensive eBusiness solutions for Global 2000 companies and emerging digital businesses. Xpedior helps its clients ``imagine' new eBusiness capabilities, then delivers the reliable, scaleable solutions needed to rapidly bring them to market.
The company, headquartered in Chicago, is a subsidiary of Metamor Worldwide (Nasdaq:MMWW - news). Xpedior has approximately 1,100 employees located in 18 offices in the United States, London, Toronto and Perth, Australia. Visit Xpedior at xpedior.com or call 1-877-XPEDIOR.
Digital Island© is a leading provider of network services for globalizing e-Business applications. Digital Island serves companies that need to securely and consistently extend business-critical applications for marketing, selling, servicing, or distributing products via the Internet.
Digital Island's service includes global content distribution and hosting, the localization of end-user online experiences, and a reliable global Intelligent Network, all of which are designed to deliver the right content, to the right customer, in the right market, at the right time.
The company has regional data centers in New York, Santa Clara, Honolulu, London, and Hong Kong, connecting directly into 21 countries with Local Content Managers in 13 markets worldwide to provide the ubiquity and reach of the public Internet with the quality and functionality normally available only in a corporate wide-area network. www.digitalisland.net
Important Notice
This release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Important factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, include but are not limited to: the company's short operating history which makes it difficult to predict its future results of operations; the company's history of operating losses and expected future losses which could impede its ability to address the risks and difficulties encountered by companies in new and rapidly evolving markets; the company's future operating results could fluctuate which may cause volatility or a decline in the price of the company's stock; the company may not be able to price its services above the overall cost of bandwidth causing its financial results to suffer; and other factors detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its recent filing on Form S-1.
Note to Editors: Digital Island is a registered trademark of Digital Island, Inc. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.
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Contact:
Digital Island
Aine Muldoon, 415/738-4168
amuldoon@digitalisland.net
Tom Thompson, 415/738-4102 (Investor Relations)
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