Anderson Computers/Tidalwave Corp. Announces Second Generation E-commerce Website.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 2000 Andersen Computers/Tidalwave Corp. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :ACTQ) in conjunction with MicroDoctor.com is pleased to announce its second generation E-Commerce website. "No matter where you go or what you read, the Internet continues to be the buzzword A term that refers to the latest technology or a term that sounds catchy. If not a flash in the pan, new technologies become mainstream. For example, Java was a hot buzzword in the 1990s, but should remain a major topic for decades. of the day. Electronic commerce is expected to drive the US economy for the next decade and beyond," stated Anderson Computers/Tidalwave Corp. President Leon Kline. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the research firm ActivMedia, online retail sales will double to $109 billion this year, up from $53 billion in 1999. Computers and electronics purchases are estimated to account for 32 percent of the total. Online retail sales will swell to two-thirds of a trillion dollars by 2005, according to the study. Unfortunately, what the study doesn't show is how much time, effort, and money is required to develop a true e-commerce solution. Government and industry studies peg the spending amount around $1,000,000, with implementation times measured in months, not hours. Anderson Computers, however could afford to develop an e-commerce solution that other conventional resellers could not. Anderson Computer's TidalWave PC's and Microdoctor.com Pro-Series PC's combine at the company's latest joint effort complete PC storefront. At this storefront customers can use a secure shopping cart system to custom configure 7 different models of PC's. Also available are single to quad processor servers with onsite service contracts. The new website can be reached by linking at http://www.tidalwavepc.com. During the past year, Anderson Computers has spent a great deal of effort on upgrading their e-commerce functionality. Written using the latest Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) tools of active server pages (World-Wide Web, programming) Active Server Pages - (ASP) A scripting environment for Microsoft Internet Information Server in which you can combine HTML, scripts and reusable ActiveX server components to create dynamic web pages. IIS 4. combined with MS SQL server See Microsoft SQL Server. gives the site a new look and feel. Corporate customers use shopping carts to place multiple configurations of PC's on one order thus simplifying the ordering process. "With all this hardware and functionality in place, we had the perfect opportunity, develop a custom e-commerce solution for our customers and utilize our technical abilities to do that, " stated ACTQ President Leon Kline. Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. for Forward-Looking Statements: Except for historical information contained herein, the statements in this Press Release are forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to online sales, pricing, website traffic, which may cause the Company's actual results in the future periods to differ materially from forecasted results. |
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