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- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
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- NETSCAPE AND ACTRA DEVELOP COMMERCEXPERT
FAMILY FOR INTERNET COMMERCE AS CROSSWARE
BASED ON NETSCAPEŽ ONE PLATFORM
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- New Products Leverage Common
Architecture Based on Java, JavaScript and
CORBA To Enable Business Transactions On
Extranets and The Internet
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- MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (September 16, 1997)
– Netscape Communications Corporation
(NASDAQ: NSCP) today announced that the
NetscapeŽ CommerceXpert family of software
developed by Actra is being built as a family
of Crossware solutions specifically designed
to take advantage of the Netscape ONE
platform. Crossware applications are a new
breed of applications that span operating
systems, networks and businesses to include
customers and partners in business practices.
Netscape CommerceXpert is an integrated
family of Internet commerce application
solutions for linking people and businesses
together over Extranets and the Internet.
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- The Netscape CommerceXpert family --
including ECXpert, SellerXpert, BuyerXpert,
MerchantXpert and PublishingXpert 2.0 --
leverages Netscape ONE as a common platform
to provide sophisticated transaction support
and enable Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
over the Internet and Extranets. The products
have been designed and written as high-end,
multi-tiered distributed applications that
leverage Java™, JavaScript™ and
CORBA for safely conducting
business-to-business and business-to-consumer
commerce.
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- "The CommerceXpert family demonstrates
the power and flexibility that the Netscape
ONE platform offers enterprise developers
building Crossware applications," said
Marty Cagan, vice president for platform
marketing at Netscape. "Developers can
use Netscape ONE technologies to design and
build mission-critical applications that
leverage investments in existing data systems
and link people and businesses
together."
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- "The power of the Web to impact business
has evolved beyond simple information
exchange within an Intranet," said Jim
Sha, chief executive officer at Actra.
"Real impact now comes from the ability
to automate external business processes
between customers, suppliers and partners,
reducing costs and cycle time. The
CommerceXpert family leverages the power of
the Netscape ONE platform to deliver this
capability."
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- Part of the CommerceXpert family is Netscape
PublishingXpert 2.0, an extensive upgrade
announced today to Netscape Publishing System
1.6 that includes numerous product
enhancements. It has been completely
re-designed and re-written as a high-end,
multi-tiered distributed application based on
the Netscape ONE platform. This version
leverages a CORBA-based transaction server
and a Java front-end to provide scalability,
high availability and optimal performance to
meet the needs of the largest web sites.
PublishingXpert 2.0 also leverages Netscape
Enterprise Server software as a foundation to
deliver personalized content delivery,
management of content, protected payment
capabilities, subscription and billing
services, and advanced search and centralized
administration capabilities.
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- The Netscape ONE platform unifies the
standards of the Internet into a single
platform for creating powerful applications.
It embraces open standards including: Dynamic
HTML, Java, JavaScript, Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol (LDAP) and Common Object
Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). By
relying on Netscape ONE technologies to
Web-enable their applications, enterprise
developers can achieve seamless
interoperability, dramatic scalability,
on-demand information access, ease of use,
central deployment and management, and the
capacity to deliver dynamic content -- all
within a global network environment.
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- Netscape Communications Corporation is a
leading provider of open software for linking
people and information over enterprise
networks and the Internet. The company offers
a full line of clients, servers, development
tools and commercial applications to create a
complete platform for next-generation, live
online applications. Traded on NASDAQ under
the symbol "NSCP," Netscape
Communications Corporation is based in
Mountain View, California.
Netscape and the Netscape logo are registered
trademarks of Netscape Communications Corporation
which is registered in the United States and other
jurisdictions. Netscape product names are trademarks
of Netscape Communications Corporation which may be
registered in some jurisdictions. CommerceXpert,
PublishingXpert, MerchantXpert, SellerXpert,
BuyerXpert, and ECXpert are trademarks of Actra.
Additional information on Netscape Communications
Corporation is available on the Internet at http://home.netscape.com
or by sending email to moreinfo@netscape.com.
Corporate customers can call 415-937-2555 while
consumers can call 415-937-3777 for more information.
For more information about Actra: http://www.actracorp.com.
- Actra contact:
- Suzanne Burnip
- (408) 542-3181
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