Beyond.com Launches Custom Website for IRS Employees; Microsoft Licenses Available for Online Purchase and Electronic Download.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 1999-- Internet software superstore Beyond.com (Nasdaq:BYND) announced to it has launched a Web store today to sell selected Microsoft licenses to approximately 130,000 Internal Revenue Service (IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws. ) employees at www.gov.beyond.com/irs.htm. This announcement is the result of the $120 Million, 65-month ITC/Beyond.com contract for Microsoft products with the IRS that was announced in June 1999. Beyond.com will provide IRS employees with the ability to order Microsoft licenses directly from the Internet, via electronic download delivery, using their government purchasing cards. The new IRS website, developed by Beyond.com, provides the IRS end-user community with easy access to a family of Microsoft products such as Project 98, Publisher 98 and Visual Studio Enterprise Edition 6.0. "This announcement demonstrates the IRS's ability to leverage the Internet and digital downloading to accelerate paperless procurement and help reduce their total cost of ownership for software," said Rusty Palmer, IRS program manager at Beyond.com. "With the combination of these two significant announcements, Beyond.com now offers IRS employees the full family of Microsoft licenses with the click of a button." "In addition to giving IRS employees full access to Microsoft products, the specially designed IRS website by Beyond.com will help simplify the IT acquisition process," said Steve Baldwin, president and chief executive office at ITC ITC (Brit) n abbr (= Independent Television Commission) → Fernseh-Aufsichtsgremium ITC n abbr (BRIT) (= Independent Television Commission) → . "ITC and Beyond.com will continue to make the IRS a leader in the government IT community in procurement innovation." About Beyond.com Beyond.com sells commercial, off-the-shelf software to the government, enterprise, corporate and consumer markets, offering its customers a better place to buy software. Visitors to the company's online store (http://www.beyond.com/) enjoy a comprehensive selection of software backed by customer service and competitive pricing. Beyond.com offers more than 1.6 million software and other digital products, including software stock-keeping units (SKUs) for online purchase from such major publishers as Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: /əˈdoʊbiː/) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Inc., IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corp., Lotus Development Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. Inc. and Symantec Corp; hardware; computing devices; and digital images in different file formats, including jpeg, gif and mpf through a strategic marketing alliance with IMSI IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity IMSI International Microcomputer Software, Inc. IMSI International Mobile Station Identity (now International Mobile Subscriber Identity) IMSI Idaho Maximum Security Institution . The company has established strategic marketing alliances with America Online See AOL. Inc., CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. Inc., Compaq Computer Corp., Excite@Home, HP Shopping Village, Microsoft Corp., Road Runner/ServiceCo, Yahoo! Inc. and ZDNet. Additionally, Beyond.com offers software publishers, hardware manufacturers and systems OEMs e-commerce solutions including publishers transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. , physical and electronic order fulfillment Order fulfillment (in BE also: order fulfilment) is in the most general sense the complete process from point of sales inquiry to delivery of a product to the customer. Sometimes Order fulfillment , customer support, site design consultation, marketing support and reporting. The company has applied for federal registration of the marks BEYOND.COM and BEYOND DOT COM. Beyond.com Corporation trades on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol "BYND". More information on the company can be found in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 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. Statement Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These include statements relating to expectations about Beyond.com's new Web store for IRS employees. There can be no assurances that the store will generate profits for Beyond.com or that the store will operate for the entirety of the 65-month agreement Beyond.com entered into with the IRS in June 1999. Beyond.com's business is subject to risks including reductions in or cancellations of customer orders, changes in relationships with software suppliers, changes in relationships with strategic partners, changes in the product mix sold by the company, competition from other online software resellers or publishers, inability to raise sufficient capital on satisfactory terms, or at all, and other factors described in the company's filings with the SEC. |
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