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📅 - Loudcloud to Power Atriax Foreign Exchange Portal - Loudcloud Inc. (loudcloud.com), a leading managed service provider, announced on Tuesday that Atriax (http://www.atriax.com), the premier electronic foreign exchange portal, has contracted Loudcloud to provide managed services to its transaction and information portal. Atriax will deliver an open marketplace for all corporate, institutional and banking foreign exchange professionals globally. An independent company backed by Citibank, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan and Reuters, Atriax's growing membership already includes over sixty of the world's largest foreign exchange banks. On its website, Atriax provides market data and news from Reuters, a global leader in this ...
📅 - Sun Microsystems Unveils Maintenance-Free E-commerce Solution - Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the company has joined with Wincor Nixdorf, Inc. and ADS Retail to demonstrate SmartClient, a managed, in-store e-commerce system. v The companies say SmartClient meets three of the most important computing needs for large retailers: the ability to inexpensively manage and update local servers and point of sale (POS) terminals centrally without onsite support, the power to process and record sales even when a connection to the server is lost, and technology that is easy for sales associates to use. The SmartClient solution combines POS specialist Wincor Nixdorf's BEETLE thin-client terminal with ADS Retail's NextorPOS ...
📅 - Cognicase Strengthens Services Through Acquisition - Cognicase Inc. (http://www.cognicase.com), a Montreal-based e-business services provider, announced on Tuesday that it had acquired the privately owned Personus Inc. (http://www.personus.com), a Toronto-based software developer specializing in customer relationship development applications. Cognicase says Personus is known for helping clients build online businesses, but has recently focused increasingly on customer relationship applications. As such, it provides end-to-end understanding in project management, business strategy, branding, creative, technical (including front-end, back-end, and application architecture development), and hosting services. The company's Major ...
📅 - Digex Completes Complicated WorldCom Pricing Process - Digex came another step closer to settling its business with WorldCom this week when the managed Web and application hosting provider announced on Friday that it had completed the complicated process of determining an average trading price to be used as a value for WorldCom stock in the issue of a settlement fund. The settlement fund was part of a plan agreed upon earlier in the year between the two companies, intended to resolve a legal dispute launched by Digex on behalf of its shareholders regarding WorldCom's acquisition of a controlling stake in Digex through its merger with Intermedia Communications Inc. The value of the WorldCom Group and the MCI Group ...
📅 - WorldCom and Intermedia Complete Merger - International telecommunications company WorldCom Inc., after months spent making arrangements, completed its merger with Intermedia Communications Inc. on the weekend, acquiring the controlling stake in Web hosting firm Digex that it wanted all along. ``The closing of the Intermedia merger finalizes our acquisition of a controlling-interest in Digex, the industry's leading web-hosting provider,'' said Bernard J. Ebbers, president and chief executive officer of WorldCom. ``Now, we have the freedom to fully utilize Digex's unique assets to fuel our web hosting expansion by providing a comprehensive portfolio of mission critical hosting products and services for ...
📅 - Rackspace Partners With Zend Technologies - In a gathering of supporters of the open source community, managed hosting services provider Rackspace Managed Hosting (Rackspace.com 👉 Total Reviews: 16
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👍 Good Reviews: 4
👎 Bad Reviews: 12
👈 Official Responses: 0) announced on Monday that it had forged a partnership with PHP software developer Zend Technologies (http://www.zend.com). Zend is an international provider of commercial solutions designed to enhance performance and productivity of PHP, the open source server side Web site scripting language. And according to Rackspace's Web site, the company has long been a supporter of PHP, and is a leader in providing Linux based Web hosting. According to the companies, the partnership will bundle Rackspace's Web hosting services with Zend's PHP ...