Cyclone Commerce Joins UDDI Initiative To Promote Business-To-Business Connectivity

Business Wire, Oct 10, 2000

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 2000

Support From Leaders Like Cyclone Will Promote the

Wide-spread Adoption of UDDI To Assist Companies In

Rapidly Extending Their B2B Trading Networks

Cyclone Commerce announced today that it has joined IBM, Microsoft, Ariba, webMethods and Commerce One in the UDDI Initiative (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) as an effort to support a standard format that will make it easier for businesses to create partnerships and business models on the Web.

The UDDI initiative strives to create a platform-independent, open framework for integrating business services using the Internet, ultimately enabling businesses to quickly, easily and dynamically find and transact with one another using any type of application. Cyclone Commerce has actively become involved with UDDI because it is a natural extension of the company's vision -- enabling companies, exchanges and supply chain communities to transact with any and all of the Internet and legacy systems in use by all trading partners.

"We expect to contribute to this environment with our patent-pending registry technology that will support all business registry systems. Consequently, we are enthusiastic about supporting UDDI," said David Bennett, co-founder and chief technology officer of Cyclone Commerce. "It will clearly further our goals in helping partners trade and collaborate. Because this industry model closely resembles our vision, we embrace and strongly endorse these efforts to help rapidly deploy and manage complex business processes across a variety of platforms and IT environments."

About Cyclone Commerce, Inc.

Cyclone Commerce provides an open platform for "instant-on" B2B eCommerce. Due to its unique ability to support any and all of the Internet and legacy systems in use by all trading partners, the Company enables a model for instant-on trading connections. Within a matter of hours, an automatically integrated, "open-to-all-comers" trading community can be established and managed by Cyclone customers -- a roster that includes industry leaders like Airborne Express (NYSE:ABF); Anheuser Busch Corporation (NYSE:BUD); Kraft Foods (NYSE:MO); Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG); and Internet Economy companies such as Chemdex (Nasdaq:VNTR) and utility.com.