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To: MangoBoy who wrote (11830)	2/17/2000 10:32:00 AM
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[Winstar Chooses Open Market's ShopSite to Provide Store-Building Commerce Services] Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Now Can Set Up Shop Through "Winstar Online" Internet Enabling Products BURLINGTON, Mass., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Market, Inc. (NASDAQ:OMKT), a world leading provider of integrated enterprise e-business solutions, today announced that Winstar Communications, Inc.has selected Open Market's ShopSite(TM) application for the online store-building product offered through Winstar Online (http://www.wol.winstar.com), a suite of do-it-yourself Internet products and services. Winstar Online offerings are available on Winstar's corporate Web site (www.winstar.com) and Office.com(R), A Service From Winstar (http://www.office.com), the number-one ranked online business center. Winstar Online customers can use ShopSite's automated templates to build a customized e-commerce storefront that can be ready to take orders within hours. The application's advanced software guides the user through store set-up and design and offers a host of features -- such as tax and shipping calculations, online or offline payment processing options, product category maintenance, order encryption and store traffic statistics. "Providing commerce services is a natural extension of a portal business," said Paul Esdle, vice president of marketing at Open Market, Inc. "ShopSite serves portal communities so well because it allows any level of user to easily set up their online store presence in as little as fifteen minutes. We're pleased to be working with Winstar and to be providing ShopSite to the fast growing small and medium-sized business market." "Through both Winstar Online and Office.com, Winstar is offering the best Internet-based products and services under a single umbrella so that small and medium-sized businesses can have a one-stop shop for everything they need," said Mandy Schuyler, vice president of product development and marketing for Winstar. "We chose ShopSite as the online store-building application for our Web sites because it is easy to use and distribute. From a customer standpoint, we wanted a feature-rich application that provides a quick and inexpensive way for our users to get their businesses online."