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To: Luce Wildebeest who wrote (6492)	6/13/1998 2:48:00 PM
From: cm	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9343

Information About 280,Inc. From Yahoo SEEK Poster... What follows is some GREAT INFORMATION about 280, Inc., SEEK's latest purchase, taken from a poster on the Yahoo SEEK thread. I can see LOTS OF POSSIBILITIES here. ************ A little info on 280 Inc. 280, Inc., a new Internet company, launched the Meeting Center, a new Web service enabling individuals and teams in different companies and locations to work together 24 hours a day, 7 days a week . The Meeting Center service makes working together on the Web as easy as finding information on Yahoo! (NSDQ:YHOO) or buying a book at Cyberville NS BookStore "Traditional applications delivered as services on the Web are the future of the Internet" said Michael Baum, CEO of 280, Inc. "The millions of people using Web E-mail services including Four11, Hotmail, and WhoWhere? demonstrates the popularity of applications delivered as Web services. With the Meeting Center, users can invite anyone to participate in their own private, shared workspace on the Web. Using the Meeting Center is simple, fast and free." During the Beta release, more than 1,000 registered users from companies including Saatchi & Saatchi, Netscape, @Home Network, and IONA Technologies have used the Meeting Center service to save time and money working with their customers, vendors and clients. "The Meeting Center works the way I do, whenever and wherever I am," said Mary Doan of Saatchi & Saatchi. "I don't have to be up at 2 a.m. for a conference call to get a progress report from one of our Pacific Rim offices. Instead, the team uses the Meeting Center to keep everyone up to speed on the progress of the ad campaign." Unlike traditional enterprise solutions, applications delivered as Web services require a different type of technology and infrastructure to scale rapidly at a very low cost. Utilizing leading edge technologies including Java and CORBA, the Meeting Center service is scalable to millions of users, but costs more to run than a Web site. This makes it possible for 280, Inc. to provide the basic Meeting Center service free charge only a small user fee for additional storage or larger numbers of users. With 280, Inc.'s technology, users can start right away without purchasing any software or hardware. Best of all, the Meeting Center is accessible from any PC with an Internet connection. Anyone who regularly collaborates across multiple locations or companies will find the Meeting Center to be a valuable tool for sharing files, brainstorming ideas, planning projects and making decisions. The Meeting Center works with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.0 (NSDQ:MSFT)and a Netscape Communicator (NSDQ:NSCP) version is coming soon. Also available for download is a Meeting Center application using JavaSoft's Java Virtual Machine.