CNKT---2.8M Float moving back up!!ConnectInc.com Teams With IBM to
Create Electronic Commerce Solution
MarketStream E-Commerce Application Incorporates IBM WebSphere
Application Server, WebSphere Performance Pack and IBM MQSeries
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- ConnectInc.com (Nasdaq: CNKT - news)
today announced an initiative with IBM to offer its leading, OBI-enabled, e-commerce application,
MarketStream*, using IBM's high-performance WebSphere Application Server**, Standard
Edition and WebSphere Performance Pack** and integrating IBM MQSeries**. The solution will
be available in the first quarter of 1999. ConnectInc.com, a member of IBM's Solution Developer
Program, also will be offering both OrderStream*, an application for business to consumer
electronic commerce and PurchaseStream*, an application for business to business electronic
commerce for the WebSphere product family and MQSeries as upgrades for existing customers.
MarketStream is a powerful, flexible electronic commerce application that provides a broad
technology foundation for the virtual marketplace. MarketStream includes support for integrated,
cross-supplier catalog search, product-specific attributes, tiered or customized pricing, buyer
profiling and personalization, back-end system integration and robust reporting capabilities. Unlike
most buy or sell-side applications which focus on only a portion of the business, MarketStream's
comprehensive scope of functionality greatly reduces the technical effort required to build a
customized application to support a major vertical market.
''Best of breed e-commerce solutions are highly scalable, and must be optimized to run in the new
cross-platform, high transaction volume environments of ''.com'' companies,'' said Craig Norris,
president and CEO of ConnectInc.com. ''We are convinced this new relationship will help
ConnectInc.com expand its presence among the thousands of global companies serious about
building mission-critical e-business solutions around open standards.''
''The integration of MarketStream with the IBM WebSphere products and MQSeries will result in
an e-commerce solution that can fit the needs of a variety of businesses,'' said Steve Solazzo, vice
president, Solution Developers and Small/Growing Businesses for IBM Software Group. ''This
initiative will produce an application that will help bring sellers and buyers together in one
comprehensive, online distribution location.''
WebSphere Application Server, Standard Edition provides companies with an open, multi-platform,
standards-based, Web server deployment platform and Web site management tools. It offers
customers a solution to deploy e-business Web sites across a range of operating systems platforms
including AIX**, Windows NT****, Sun Solaris*****, OS/400, OS/390 and OS/2* Warp
Server. WebSphere Performance Pack is a unique combination of caching, proxy and filtering
functions; file content management and replication; and load balancing in a single Internet hosting
infrastructure.
IBM MQSeries, the most widely used message-queuing software on the market, enables users to
exchange information between applications across more than 35 different platforms, from
mainframes to PCs. This award-winning software enables business integration throughout the
enterprise, allowing companies to maximize e-business opportunities by leveraging existing
resources to improve speed-to-market and anticipate IT changes as their business changes.
Under the terms of the agreement, ConnectInc.com has made a significant commitment to IBM
Software and WebSphere. IBM will provide support for marketing and development to assist
ConnectInc.com in successfully incorporating IBM's WebSphere with MarketStream and reaching
its marketing objectives for IBM Websphere.
About ConnectInc.com
ConnectInc.com, formerly known as Connect, Inc., provides solutions and services to enable
Internet-based electronic commerce, and build ''connected corporations'' from any link in the digital
value chain. ConnectInc.com's technologies and service are optimized for today's multi-vendor,
e-business solutions, and allow companies to compete effectively in the digital economy.
ConnectInc.com is a member of the IBM Solution Developer Program.
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SOURCE: Connectinc.com
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