NewWorldApps Cuts ASP Costs by as Much as Tenfold with Internet 'Leveraged Cluster' Services

Business Wire, March 6, 2000

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2000

In a stunning announcement today, Management Service Provider NewWorldApps has launched a new Internet delivery service which enables application software developers to deliver their enterprise applications over the Internet for as little as one tenth the cost of traditional application service provider (ASP) offerings.

Announced at the Red Herring's Venture Market South conference by NewWorldApps CEO John Streeten, the new service is called Internet "Leveraged Cluster" Services.

"Our new Internet Leveraged Cluster Services deliver on the economic promise of delivering applications over the Internet," said Mr. Streeten. "With our Leveraged Cluster architecture and services, software developers are able to slash the per customer cost of delivering their enterprise applications over the Internet by as much as one order of magnitude. We believe this cost advantage will be extremely difficult for applications managed by our competitors to compete with."

Leveraged Cluster architecture provides a redundant cluster of highly secure servers that delivers a software developer's complex enterprise application to corporate customers over the Internet. The availability, security and performance architecture and services provided by a Leveraged Cluster enable developers to implement hundreds of their corporate clients concurrently on one high availability cluster.

NewWorldApps also announced today the launch of TabWare OnLine as its first Leveraged Cluster Services customer. "We evaluated data center ASP's for almost a year," commented Jim Plourde, Director, TabWare OnLine. "NewWorldApps was the only firm that could architect and deliver the application level services required to keep our application on the leading edge."

NewWorldApps has architected a twelve server redundant configuration for TabWare OnLine which incorporates SUN clustering, Oracle RDBMS, and Citrix MetaFrame technologies, and includes a 128 bit encrypted extranet, and hard authentication for each user. With NewWorldApps' Leveraged Cluster Services, TabWare OnLine is now one of the world's the most hardened, redundant and high performance applications delivered over the Internet today, and is expected to handle up to 200 separate corporate clients per Leveraged Cluster.

"All the major revolutions in Information Technology have involved an order of magnitude improvement in price/performance," added Dan Tudahl, NewWorldApps' Vice President of Operations. "From mainframes to mini computers, from minis to workstations, from workstations to PC's each technology revolution that has swept the industry has delivered an order of magnitude cost advantage. NewWorldApps' Leveraged Cluster Services enable software developers to deliver this same revolutionary economic benefit to their customers with their ASP offerings."

NewWorldApps is a Management Service Provider that architects and provides ongoing management of leading edge Internet delivery platforms for enterprise software developers and B2B ECommerce developers and their partners. www.newworldapps.com. NewWorldApps' Internet Leveraged Cluster Services deliver some of the highest availability, security and performance services available in the world today. NewWorldApps offers services which overlap in some markets with USinternetworking, Inc. (Nasdaq: USIX). NewWorldApps' strategic partners and providers include the following industry leaders: Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW), Citrix Systems (Nasdaq: CTXS), Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL), RSA Security (Nasdaq: RSAS), Verisign (Nasdaq: VRSN), and Compaq Computer Corp. (Nasdaq: CPQ).