To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (1385 ) 8/10/1998 6:17:00 PM From: esecurities(tm) Respond to of 5102
CBS.MW Benchmark eCommerce Website for week of Aug 10Keynote Systems Announces Its Sites-of-the-Week for August: Five Popular Web Sites Selected for Public Internet Performance Tests Companies With E-Commerce Web Sites Invited to Compare Their Quality of Service to These Benchmark Sites SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 31, 1998--"...Keynote Systems, the recognized authority on Internet performance, today released the identities of five popular web sites whose quality of service the company will measure in August as part of its ongoing Site-of-the-Week program that makes the performance results of selected sites available free to the public on the World Wide Web at keynote.com . Companies with e-commerce web sites signing up for Keynote's free performance appraisal at keynote.com can also compare the performance of their own sites to the Site-of-the-Week. The web sites whose Internet performance and failure rates will be visible for public scrutiny for one week each in August as Site-of-the-Week belong to Egghead.com (NASDAQ:EGGS - news), MarketWatch.com (a joint venture of CBS (NYSE:CBS - news) and Data Broadcasting Corporation (NASDAQ:DBCC - news)), NetMarket (a service of Cendant Corporation (NYSE:CD - news)), BMC Software (NASDAQ:BMCS - news) and America Online (NYSE:AOL - news). Anyone with a Java-enabled web browser from Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT - news) or Netscape (NASDAQ:NSCP - news) can view the performance measurements and failure rates of the Site-of-the-Week in real time for the immediately previous 24 hours and compare them to the average of 40 other popular business web sites. Keynote will also publish weekly several comparative performance graphs for each Site-of-the-Week on its web site at keynote.com . The five Sites-of-the-Week for August include an emerging reseller of PC products, a popular financial news and information service, a comprehensive online shopping service for consumers, a large systems management software company, and the leading provider of branded interactive services and content..." Week: August 10 Company: MarketWatch.com, a joint venture of CBS (NYSE:CBS - news) and Data Broadcasting Corporation (NASDAQ:DBCC - news) Internet Address: cbs.marketwatch.com Web-Site Software: Microsoft IIS 2.0 (NASDAQ:MSFT - news) Internet Access: WorldCom/UUNET (NASDAQ:WCOM - news), GTE/BBN (NYSE:GTE - news), and MCI (NASDAQ:MCIC - news) source: © 1998 biz.yahoo.com