Amazon.com's ObjectStore Deployment Ensures Best-in-Class Experience for Customers and Merchants.Business/Technology Editors BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 2002 eXcelon(TM) Corporation (Nasdaq: EXLN), today announced that Amazon.com has deployed ObjectStore(R) to enable real-time updates of product information and inventory availability for its burgeoning marketplace business on the main retail site. ObjectStore handled over 20 million requests per hour and a million updates per day to ensure high performance during Holiday 2001. The ObjectStore implementation works with Amazon's Fast Propagation Architecture (FPA 1. (hardware) FPA - floating-point accelerator. 2. (programming) FPA - Function Point Analysis. ). Amazon's FPA improves the buying and selling experience by ensuring the accuracy of item availability and rapidly adding new inventory to the site. ObjectStore reduces Amazon's costs by facilitating the deployment of the FPA on low-cost HP Linux servers with maximum scalability. "Our customers are very important to us at Amazon.com," said Rick Dalzell Rick Dalzell is the Chief Information Officer/Senior Vice President of Amazon.com in Seattle, Washington. In charge of technology, software and services at the Internet marketing behemoth, Dazell has been a corporate officer at Amazon since August 1997, when he was named Vice , chief information officer at Amazon.com. "ObjectStore has enhanced our site performance and helps us deliver the best customer experience even during peak business cycles. " The Amazon.com technical team conceived the Fast Propagation Architecture approach to address Amazon's corporate directive to provide unparalleled customer service while reducing technology spending. In order to succeed, the FPA team needed to deploy a solution that would address the customer demand for real-time product information. Amazon has met this challenge by basing the FPA on ObjectStore, a high-performance, scalable operational data store. ObjectStore enables Amazon to reach high levels of performance by serving as a mid-tier cache that instantly transfers and synchronizes data stored in multiple Oracle databases across Amazon's geographically distributed infrastructure. The cache is deployed on HP Linux machines serving hundreds of distributed Amazon Web servers. During the height of this year's holiday season, this architecture routinely processed loads exceeding 20 million detailed product requests per hour and reduced the time associated with updating data to less than two minutes under peak loads. "We are excited that Amazon has implemented ObjectStore as a component for its infrastructure," said Joe Bellini, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. eXcelon Corporation. "Amazon's FPA project demonstrates the role ObjectStore plays in creating a real-time enterprise to improve customer satisfaction, expand revenue and reduce costs." About eXcelon eXcelon Corporation is a leading provider of data management software designed to accelerate the performance of distributed applications built using XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. and Java and deployed on market leading software platforms. eXcelon's core products, XIS, Javlin and ObjectStore, deliver enhanced levels of speed, flexibility, scalability and run-time availability to Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. and distributed applications, which can result in substantial cost savings and significant competitive advantage for large and mid-sized enterprises. For corporate developers and software engineers who need to manage XML in a distributed environment, eXcelon Corporation's eXtensible Information Server (XIS) is a native XML database See XML database. management system that provides the speed and throughput necessary to manage the extreme flexibility of XML. The product is unique in that it provides node level management of XML documents. Javlin, a J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. data cache manager, offers high performance distributed Java data caching that enables organizations to meet the productivity requirements of mid-tier J2EE application A J2EE application or an enterprise application is any deployable unit of J2EE functionality. This can be a single J2EE module or a group of modules packaged into an EAR file along with a J2EE application deployment descriptor. environments while attaining greater extensibility and scalability. ObjectStore delivers best of breed data-management for Java and C++ to ensure the rapid propagation and availability of data for complex Web transactions, dynamic content, network management systems and a multitude of applications for independent software vendors (ISVs). Headquartered in Burlington, MA, eXcelon has more than 4,000 customers worldwide, including market leaders in key industries such as telecommunications, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , retail and manufacturing. eXcelon markets its solutions globally through value-added resellers, system integrators, consulting firms, OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and licensees and direct sales channels. For more information, please visit the eXcelon Web site at www.exceloncorp.com About Amazon.com Amazon.com opened its virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com seeks to be the world's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online. Amazon.com and sellers list millions of unique new and used items in categories such as electronics, computers, kitchen and housewares house·wares pl.n. Cooking utensils, dishes, and other small articles used in a household, especially in the kitchen. , books, music, DVDs, videos, camera and photo items, toys, baby and baby registry, software, computer and video games This article is about the British magazine covering computer and video games. For the American magazine, see Computer Games Magazine. Computer And Video Games (CVG , cell phones and service, tools and hardware, travel services, magazine subscriptions and outdoor living items. Through Amazon Marketplace Amazon Marketplace ( i.e:Third-party Marketplace ) is Amazon.com's fixed-price online marketplace that allows sellers to survey their goods alongside Amazon's offerings. Buyers can buy new and used items sold directly by a third party through Amazon. , zShops and Auctions, any business or individual can sell virtually anything to Amazon.com's millions of customers, and with Amazon.com Payments, sellers can accept credit card transactions, avoiding the hassles of offline payments. Amazon.com also offers the Amazon Credit Account, the online equivalent of a department store credit card, which provides shoppers the opportunity to buy now and pay later when shopping at Amazon.com. Amazon.com operates four international Web sites: www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.fr and www.amazon.co.jp. 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Such statements are not guarantees of future performance, and are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties and involve assumptions that could cause the future results of eXcelon to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. eXcelon disclaims any intent or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements whether in response to new information, future events or otherwise. Important factors that could cause our actual results to differ from these forward-looking statements include the possibility that the recent restructuring of our business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets , as well as any additional restructuring initiatives, may not produce improvements in our operating results; the risk that our common stock may not continue to trade on the Nasdaq National Market; market demand for XML-based products; the risk that our revenues will not grow rapidly enough to offset increased expenditures that we are incurring to develop and market our new XML-based products; the fact that a significant portion of the combined company's revenues to date have been derived from sales of eXcelon's Object Design data management products, the market for which is stable or declining; the profitability of our professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. contracts; our ability to retain existing professional services clients and attract new clients; the possibility that we may be unable to keep pace with the rapid technological change and intense competition that characterize our markets; general economic and industry conditions; factors described under the heading "Risk Factors" in our Registration Statement on Form S-4 relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc the merger, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 17, 2001; and other factors described under the heading "Certain Factors that May Affect Future Results" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ended December 31, 2000, as amended, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as factors described under the heading "Risk Factors" in C-bridge's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2000, as amended, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. NOTE: C-bridge, Object Design and ObjectStore are registered trademarks of eXcelon Corporation. eXcelon, EXLN, Xpress, eXcelon Portal Server (1) A network server that deploys portal services to a public Web site or internal intranet. See portal. (2) An application that is used to develop, deliver and maintain a Web portal. , eXcelon Integration Server, eXcelon eSolutions, Stylus, Cache-Forward, and Javlin are trademarks of eXcelon Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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