IPNet Announces Products For Sun Microsystems' Solaris Operating Environment; Extends Product Reach to Leading Unix Operating System

Business Wire, Dec 4, 2000

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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2000

IPNet Solutions Inc., a leading provider of business-to-business connectivity solutions, Monday announced the availability of eBizness Transact for Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Solaris(TM) Operating Environment.

The expansion to Solaris reaffirms IPNet's commitment to provide e-business solutions for industry-leading Unix-based platforms. The company currently develops products for the HP-UX and Windows operating systems.

eBizness Transact is IPNet's robust transaction management solution designed to enable the secure, real-time delivery of purchase orders, confirmations, invoices and any other business documents over the Internet.

It combines support for XML as well as traditional EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) with value-added services such as e-conversions, tracking, reporting and functional acknowledgment management.

"Offering eBizness Transact on the Solaris Operating Environment gives customers more flexibility and presents IPNet with the opportunity to extend its reach to the massive Sun market," said Ted Smykla, senior vice president of products at IPNet.

"As the business-to-business e-marketplace takes shape, IPNet will continue to increase product functionality and expand the platforms it supports. Extending our product line to Solaris is a natural and important step in our business development and market penetration strategies."

As a leading provider of industrial strength hardware, software and services, Sun products are at the heart of public and private exchanges, powering e-business on a worldwide scale.

The proven capabilities of the Solaris Operating Environment can help existing data centers become more agile and predictable thus enabling them to increase service levels and reduce service costs and risks to their networks. The Solaris Operating Environment software delivers the five critical requirements for Internet-based systems -- scalability, availability, manageability, security and connectivity.

Sun provides the Solaris Operating Environment to companies universally, creating a technology environment for the global Internet economy. The buyers and suppliers that make up exchanges require a secure, robust and reliable development and deployment platform for solutions that perform critical business functions such as those offered by IPNet's eBizness Transact product.

eBizness Transact is based on open standards, rather than proprietary protocols, making it versatile and adaptable to changing technology.

It is an integral component of IPNet's eBizness Suite, the industry's only integrated software suite designed to allow trading partners to transact business, share information, dynamically communicate, resolve problems and interact via any standard browser or transport protocol (VAN, Internet, FTP, SMTP, HTTP HTTPS).

Features of the product include rapid implementation; flexible integration of legacy and new technologies; support for AS2, the industry's highest security level; and real-time connectivity with immediate notification of received messages.

eBizness Transact 3.2 is now available for Sun's Solaris Operating Environment. It is also currently available for use in HP-UX and Windows NT platforms, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Advanced Server environments.

About IPNet Solutions Inc.

IPNet Solutions provides the fastest on-ramp to B2B e-commerce for private and public exchanges. With its award-winning server-, PC- and browser-based solutions, IPNet enables all partners to transact business, share information and collaborate securely over the Internet. VAN fees and paper-based communications are eliminated. Transactions and information flow are optimized.

By integrating and synchronizing information real-time between trading partners, IPNet unleashes the ROI of legacy systems. IPNet's open solutions are based on industry standards for communications, security, XML and EDI. IPNet's ability to swiftly deploy and implement is unmatched.

Recent industry recognition includes UPSIDE Magazine's "Hot 100 Private Companies," Computerworld's "Top 100 Emerging Companies to Watch in 2001," Manufacturing Systems' "25 Emerging Companies to Watch," American Electronics Association's "Best Innovative New Product/Technology," Microsoft's Retail Application Developers (RAD) Award and Internet Commerce Exposition's "Best of Class."

More information about the company can be found at www.ipnetsolutions.com or 866/476-3848 (866-IPNET4U).