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Joint Effort to Develop a Highly Scalable and Secure Implementation of Netscape Enterprise Server on Solaris Operating Environment
BELTSVILLE, MD, May 05, 1999 - Digex, Incorporated, a leading provider of Web hosting and application hosting solutions, today announced a joint effort with the Sun-Netscape Alliance to further enhance Digex's servers for improved security, increased scalability, and higher performance. Digex currently manages over 1300 servers, including those deployed for Web sites, intranets and extranets, for businesses worldwide.
Digex has teamed with the Sun-Netscape Alliance to integrate Netscapeg Enterprise Server 3.6 software into its automated UNIX standard software bundle in order to ensure consistency, security and manageability across Solaris-based Web servers.
In addition, Digex has separately agreed with Sun to optimize the implementation of Netscape Enterprise Server on Solaris through Web, database and application server stress tests.
"The Sun-Netscape Alliance is a leading provider of e-commerce software and services, and we are pleased that service providers like Digex look to us for high performance, scalability and advanced security services for its corporate customers," said Maneesh Dhir, vice president of the Web hosting group for the Sun-Netscape Alliance. "Digex's technical experience in supporting Netscape Enterprise Server on the Solaris platform provides Digex customers the best of breed hardware, software, and support hosting solution."
The joint effort will deliver a superior implementation of Sun Solaris and Netscape Enterprise Server 3.6, offering businesses a hosting service with advanced security features for deploying or upgrading a Web site. Throughout this effort, Digex will work with the Sun-Netscape Alliance and Sun to deliver the following business benefits:
A highly reliable Web server implementation of Netscape Enterprise Server and Netscape Application Server
Optimized versions of Sun Solaris for Web, application and database servers
Improved service for data resources using Sun's clustering technology
Significantly lower total-cost of operation
Easier-to-deploy operations
"We're looking forward to continuing our close work with the Sun-Netscape Alliance to further enhance our managed servers solutions," said Bobby Patrick, vice president, marketing and product development for Digex. "Our customers run Web sites for all types of business applications ó from electronic commerce to back-office and ERP systems. They demand 24-hour availability, immediate scalability and the highest security assurances. This effort will allow us to offer them many new benefits in these specific areas."
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
Founded in 1985, America Online, Inc., 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 and 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
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is The Computerô," 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://sun.com.
About Digex
Digex is a leading provider of Web and application hosting services for some of the world's leading companies that rely on the Internet as a critical business tool. Digex also offers value-added enterprise and professional services including performance and security testing, monitoring, reporting and networking services. Digex customers, from major corporations to emerging businesses, leverage Digex's services to deploy secure, scalable, high performance business solutions, including electronic retailing, online banking, on-line procurement and customer self-service applications. Digex, Incorporated is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intermedia Communications (NASDAQ: ICIX).
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