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To: Jdaasoc who wrote (790)	10/18/2001 11:59:14 AM
From: wgh613	Respond to of 99280

BEAS news: Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Upgrades its Open Market's Content Server(TM) Enterprise Edition and BEA WebLogic to Keep the Virtual Presses Rolling for 24-Hour News Open Market's first content management customer upgrades to boost publishing system's stability and performance for reporting news around the clock BURLINGTON, Mass., Oct 18, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Open Market's first content management customer, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, Inc., (WPNI), has upgraded its Content Server(TM) Enterprise Edition (CSEE) system so it can deliver news content 24 hours a day with even more reliability. Open Market, Inc. (Nasdaq: OMKT chart, msgs), a developer of content management and delivery software, worked with IBM Global Services to implement the new version of CSEE earlier this year, as well as install a new application server, BEA WebLogic(R), from BEA Systems (Nasdaq: BEAS chart, msgs). The company chose BEA WebLogic to give its Web publishing system superior performance and stability. WPNI is the electronic publishing arm of the Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO chart, msgs), and it publishes washingtonpost.com. An Open Market customer since 1997, WPNI was managing with an older version of its content management system when, in 1999 it began providing around-the-clock updating of its website. This goal of accelerated news delivery put even more demands on its Web infrastructure and required an upgrade to the latest version of CSEE built on the new generation of application server provided by BEA. WPNI's work to strengthen its Web infrastructure began with reengineering its back-end systems built around the Java(TM) 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standard. That helped influence WPNI's decision to remain standardized on, and reap the benefits of, the new J2EE-based technologies offered by Open Market and BEA WebLogic, the world's leading e-business software platform. Besides the scalability, reliability and high performance provided by BEA's technologies, WPNI's choice allowed them to leverage their current relationship with Open Market and build on their staff's proficiency with the system. "Our publishing system is now demonstrably quicker -- some operations are twice as fast as they used to be," said Mark Steinwinter, director of software development at WPNI. "Open Market and BEA gave us the increased stability and improved performance we were looking for." Kent Lynn, principal at IBM Global Services, supervised the team that performed the WPNI upgrade. "The reader demands, and WPNI's goals for its popular online publication, require a world-class content management and delivery system," he said. "WPNI saw the advantages of building on its current Open Market relationship and technology to create a more advanced Web publishing infrastructure. WPNI now has a more mature environment and is better able to launch new, high-performance applications." With the new generation of J2EE-based technology provided by CSEE and BEA WebLogic, WPNI can now build for the future on a more scalable and reliable infrastructure. The upgrade also enables WPNI to more easily deploy advanced applications enhancing the publication with new innovations designed to improve the site visitor's experience. "With well over five million daily page views, and users who expect continuous news updates and a highly customized experience, the flexibility and extensibility requirements facing washingtonpost.com are extraordinary," said Peter Cooper-Ellis, president of BEA's E-Commerce Server Division. "This is exactly the type of environment in which BEA WebLogic excels, providing washingtonpost.com with a platform to facilitate rapid delivery of new applications, infinite scalability, seamless integration with third-party applications, and utility-class reliability. Open Market's industry-recognized content management solution built on BEA's leading e-business platform provides WPNI with an ideal J2EE environment to support its requirements." "This upgrade further improves WPNI's solid foundation for meeting its current publishing goals and confidently taking on future technology challenges," said Open Market Chief Technology Officer BC Krishna. "washingtonpost.com was one of our first customers, working with us on the development of our original Web content management products. Being able to provide this world-class publication with a platform based on new powerful J2EE architecture brings us full circle

To: Jdaasoc who wrote (790)	10/18/2001 2:34:13 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99280

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