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To: Puna who wrote (18947)	5/8/2000 11:54:00 PM
From: levy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

Puna, Marcos is in need of some of your products from the plantation....I do not know if I can help go2net anymore with marketing so I am changing my efforts to help you on an add for your juice product that cures irritable bowel syndrome...more on that later now an update on the Alliegance deal.......I found this interesting news item only at the Alliegance site........ ALLEGIANCE TELECOM ANNOUNCES BUSINESS RESOURCE CENTER AND E-COMMERCE HOSTING PACKAGES Allegiance On-line Business Center Makes It Easy To Be An E-Business DALLAS, TEXAS, May 3, 2000 - A new, easy-to-use E-Commerce Package, designed especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), is now available from Allegiance Telecom. The complete turnkey e-commerce package brings big business advantages to smaller companies - enterprises that don't have extensive capital or the resources of a full-time information technology department. Allegiance also unveiled its new Business Resource Center, providing easy access to a wide variety of business focused websites. This comprehensive web listing of business services is designed to save users of hundreds of hours searching the Internet. Allegiance's Business Resource Center includes one-click, frequently updated information on ordering business equipment and supplies, legal advice, trademark searches, government contracts and other areas of interest to businesses. These two newly announced initiatives are the second phase of Allegiance Telecom's On-line Business Center, a complete family of business services available to all Allegiance Telecom customers. From basic Web site hosting to automating applications for sales, customer support and other business activities, the Allegiance On-line Business Center is designed to help propel companies into the rapidly expanding universe of conducting business via the web. The first phase, announced earlier this year, featured the Allegiance Enterprise Portal, a customized Internet business gateway. Bundled in a single user-friendly solution, the new Allegiance Telecom E-Commerce Package provides businesses with everything needed to market their products and services on-line. Allegiance Telecom, working directly with strategic business partners such as Open Markets' Shop Site Manager and Authorize.net (a Vulcan Ventures company), handles the technical set-up and applications, letting users focus on managing and operating their business. Functions are accomplished via clicks of a mouse; the business customer doesn't need to know software programming in order to establish a site. The simple-to-follow wizard guides take the user through a step-by-step procedure to create an on-line catalog of products and services to offer their customers via the web. A wide range of bundled e-commerce capabilities are available, including shopping cart service to help customers accumulate and catalog purchases, back office support systems, access to secure transaction processing capacity and an easy-to-use customer toolkit. Anyone who can click a mouse can build a basic e-commerce site; no programming or technical hardware knowledge is required. On-line ordering options for such incremental Internet products as e-mail boxes, accounts, disk space, etc. are part of the package. Other features of the Allegiance Telecom E-Commerce Package include domain name-based e-mail accounts and a toll-free 800 number that can be used for customer service and inquiries. Allegiance's customer toolkit allows businesses to individually activate and maintain their basic Web site and e-mail options, without the need for expensive in-house technical support. With the Allegiance E-Commerce Package, there's no CD to install or software to download. Everything the user needs to create and modify their company's on-line store resides on a remote Allegiance-managed server, accessible through regular web browsers. Template-driven web design makes it easy to create a site on your own. Allegiance Telecom serves as the single point of contact for businesses, with one number to call for technical and service help, billing inquiries, etc. And as a convenient single source provider, billing for all Allegiance e-commerce applications (as well as voice, data and other telecommunications services purchased from Allegiance) are submitted to businesses in a unified format and credited with a single payment. The third phase of Allegiance's Telecom's On-line Business Center, to be unveiled later this year, will feature advanced application hosting, virtual private networks (VPNs) and other advanced Internet applications tailored to the small and medium sized business. Designed to help businesses communicate and collaborate, these applications will be available in a rent vs. buy, use as needed basis, helping businesses save money and make advanced applications more affordable. About Allegiance Telecom I would like to make some points about this article. First, it is very strange that this news item did not make its way to the news on Alliegance thread here at SI and it would have made it to the gnet news if for some strange reason it didn't say Authorize.net is owned by vulcan ventures instead of GNET.....I find this very odd. It probably means nothing but made me at least think for a second whether someone was sort of trying to hide something. The article makes it sound like a very cool site and in reality I found it pieced together and incomplete starting right with the home portal as I have previously discussed on this thread. While the article says Alliegance is now offering Authorize.net products for ecommerce I was not able to actually find that up and running on the Alliegance site even though the news item suggest that it is. Also it does not look like any other feature of hypermart will be part of the deal except for the small business center. Alliegance has their own fee based web hosting services so I can see why they would not suggest their customers use a free site like hypermart and they recommend a separate web site builder called Shopsite from openmarket (see below link) so hypermart's new web building tools are not included......this appears to have been in place prior to the deal with go2net and is up and running at the Alliegance site. I did a bit of other research and found no where is there any info as to how much money the Allegiace deal brings to Go2net which is odd as the other deals with net2phone, hasbro and others are well spelled out.....the deal what ever it is is a 5 year deal according to annual statement book that came to us in the mail... I wish Go2net management would be more forthcoming about the details of this deal. openmarket.com and here again is the link to the Alliegance portal and its offerings but you need to sign up to check it out personal.internetallegiance.com

To: Puna who wrote (18947)	5/10/2000 11:23:00 AM
From: levy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 28311

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