Netscape Directory Server Provides Foundation for Ford
Motor Company's World-Wide Extranet
Centralized Directory Services Simplify Extranet Administration of More
Than 200,000 Users and Reduces Cost of Ownership
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Netscape Communications Corporation (Nasdaq:
NSCP - news) today announced that Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F - news) is using Netscape(R)
Directory Server software as the foundation for the Ford Supplier Network, an Extranet that lets Ford
deliver information and applications to Ford's suppliers around the world. Netscape Directory Server
provides the service-ready infrastructure that enables Ford to simplify administration and reduce the
cost of ownership for one of the industry's most advanced Extranets. With more than 200,000
directory entries for people and other resources stored in a central directory, Ford's Extranet system is
one of the largest directory deployments to date.
Ford has found that directory performance is crucial to the successful deployment of its Extranet
applications, with even small degradations in directory performance resulting in unusable applications.
Netscape Directory Server solves this problem for Ford by providing the high levels of performance
and reliability that Ford requires.
''As a leader and innovator in the automotive industry, Ford is taking the idea of a corporate Extranet
to the next level by delivering highly-scalable Extranet applications to suppliers around the world,'' said
John Paul, senior vice president and general manager of Netscape's Server Products Division. ''By
leveraging the performance and scalability of Netscape Directory Server, Ford is able to deliver these
applications as Internet-based services that are more reliable and lower in cost than was previously
possible.''
Netscape Mission Control provides realtime directory and security services that enable centralized, low
cost management of a myriad of Internet applications deployed by Enterprise Service Providers
(ESPs) and independent software companies. Mission Control's service-ready infrastructure is ideal
for companies competing in the Net economy where high performance, scalability, 24x7 reliability and
strong security that extends outside the enterprise are critical for success.
Netscape Communications Corporation is a premier provider of open software and services for linking
people and information over enterprise networks and the Internet. The company offers a full line of
clients, servers, development tools, commercial applications and professional services to create a
complete platform for next generation, live online applications. Traded on Nasdaq under the symbol
''NSCP,'' Netscape Communications Corporation is based in Mountain View, California.
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SOURCE: Netscape Communications Corporation
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