Cisco Teams With Open Market To Bring Internet Commerce and High-Powered Network Solutions To Growing Businesses
BURLINGTON, Mass., April 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Market, Inc. (Nasdaq: OMKT - news), a leading provider of Internet commerce and information publishing software, today announced that the company is joining with Cisco Systems, Inc. to bring Open Market's best-of-breed Internet commerce application solutions to small- and medium-sized growing businesses through Cisco's end-to-end intelligent Internet infrastructure.
Through the Cisco Hosted Application initiative, growing businesses will have the opportunity to bypass the costly and frustrating process of building the infrastructure for their online business, and charge forward with the most powerful Internet commerce applications available. Growing businesses will access applications through Application Service Providers that will host and maintain these applications and deploy them remotely to customers through Cisco's intelligent networking solutions. With this unparalleled technology support in place, these growing companies can focus on making their business successful.
''Open Market's Internet commerce products are an outstanding solution for growing businesses that need to have access to the best-available Internet commerce solutions on a low-cost, resource-conscious basis,'' said Eugene Lee, vice president of small/medium business marketing for Cisco Systems. ''Working with Open Market gives Cisco the ability to offer not only Open Market's leading software solutions, but the history and the industry expertise that will help growing businesses thrive.''
''The Internet is moving at a lightning pace, and many growing businesses no longer have time to build their own Internet commerce infrastructure if they want to be successful in this ultra-competitive environment,'' said Jeff Bussgang, vice president of Marketing, Open Market, Inc. ''By providing a pipeline for these businesses to access the most powerful application, networking and hardware solutions, Cisco is opening the doors for these companies to enter the Internet marketplace. Linking to Open Market's Internet commerce applications will give these companies access to best-of- breed products that have been architected to answer the complete commerce needs of companies of all sizes.''
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