Enterprise Customers to Draw on Alliance's Powerful Portfolio of E-Commerce
Offerings and United's Expertise in Messaging Services
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., PALO ALTO, Calif., and MALVERN, Pa., April 28
/PRNewswire/ -- The Sun-Netscape Alliance and United Messaging today announced
that they are working together to provide outsourced electronic messaging
software to enterprise customers worldwide. Through the relationship, United
Messaging will offer corporate and government customers fully managed,
business class messaging services using software offered in the Sun-Netscape
Alliance portfolio of e-commerce products for the Net Economy.
Enterprise customers will draw on the strengths of the Sun-Netscape
Alliance's messaging solutions and United Messaging's expertise in messaging
outsourcing, and avoid the considerable burden and cost of running a messaging
network in-house. Together the Sun-Netscape Alliance and United Messaging
offer the latest communications technology with a predictable cost model.
"Managed messaging services enable companies to streamline the building
and maintenance of an advanced communications system to help them stay
competitive in the Digital Economy," said Nina Burns, President and CEO of
Creative Networks.
One of the first application service providers (ASPs) focused on the
outsourcing of electronic messaging, United Messaging is using the
Sun-Netscape Alliance messaging software to provide clients with a highly
reliable, secure and scalable carrier-class messaging system.
"The Sun-Netscape Alliance has emerged as the clear leader in delivering
carrier grade messaging platforms," said Stephen Layne, chairman and chief
executive officer of United Messaging. "As more and more companies and
organizations rely on email around the clock as the primary means of
communications, messaging networks must be designed, built, and operated with
extremely high levels of reliability, security, and performance. By combining
the Alliance's best-of-breed carrier-class messaging platforms with our
expertise in messaging network deployment and 24x7 operations, we will help
companies meet the growing challenges of managing their enterprise-wide
messaging networks."
"The Sun-Netscape Alliance is a leading provider of Internet
infrastructure and e-commerce software, and today's announcement furthers our
commitment to companies who understand the importance of email services to
their business model," said Korak Mitra, vice president of messaging solutions
for the Sun-Netscape Alliance. "When they use the Alliance's and United
Messaging's services, companies will achieve improved communications, faster
decision making, increased competitiveness, and greater employee and customer
satisfaction."
About the Sun-Netscape Alliance
America Online, Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. formed the Sun-Netscape
Alliance to provide easy to deploy, comprehensive enterprise and e-commerce
solutions to business partners and other companies competing in today's Net
Economy. The Alliance product portfolio provides customers with the
industry's most scalable, integrated infrastructure software and a family of
production ready e-commerce applications. The products are offered on the
industry's most widely available product platforms, including DEC, HP, IBM,
Linux, SGI, Microsoft Windows, and Sun. The Alliance software product
portfolio includes: messaging and calendar, collaboration, Web, application,
directory, and certificate servers. The Alliance also offers a family of
production-ready applications for e-commerce, including commerce exchange,
procurement, selling, and billing.
About America Online, Inc.
Founded in 1985, America Online, Inc. (NYSE: AOL), based in Dulles,
Virginia, is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet
technologies, and e-commerce services. America Online, Inc. operates: two
worldwide Internet services, America Online, with more than 17 million
members, and CompuServe, with approximately 2 million members; several leading
Internet brands including ICQ and Digital City, Inc.; the Netscape Netcenter
and AOL.COM portals; and the Netscape Navigator(TM) and Navigator(TM)
Communicator browsers. Through its strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems,
the Company develops and offers easy-to-deploy, end-to-end e-commerce and
enterprise solutions for companies operating in the Net Economy.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network is The
Computer(TM)," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its
position as a leading provider of high quality hardware, software and services
for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the
Internet. With more than $10.5 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found
in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com/.
About United Messaging, Inc.
Headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, United Messaging is a leader in
delivering high performance electronic messaging network, consulting and
Mailgration(SM) services. The United Messaging team has proven experience in
designing, building, and operating complex messaging networks for large
private, public, military and government organizations worldwide. This
expertise is coupled with leading technologies and selected strategic
partnerships and enables United Messaging to deliver the most comprehensive
set of solutions for high performance electronic messaging networks available.
United Messaging services are designed to increase customer satisfaction by
improving performance - reliability - scalability - security - in addition to
reducing operational expense. Additional information may be found on
http://www.unitedmessaging.com.
NOTE: United Messaging and the United Messaging logo are registered
trademarks of United Messaging, Inc. Mailgration(SM) is a service mark of
United Messaging, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
SOURCE Sun-Netscape Alliance
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