Bloomberg Ranks Mail.com as One of the 100 Fastest Growing Tech Firms.Business/Technology Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 2000 Leading Messaging Service Provider Attributes Success to Ability to Meet Customer Demand for Scalable, Reliable and Cost-Effective Messaging Solutions Mail.com, Inc., (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : MAIL) a leading global Messaging Service Provider (MSP (1) (Management Service Provider or Managed Service Provider) An organization that manages a customer's computer systems and networks which are either located on the customer's premises or at a third-party datacenter. ) for businesses, announced today that in its October, 2000 issue, Bloomberg Personal Finance Magazine named the Company as one of the top 100 fastest growing tech firms. Based on fiscal-year sales growth, Mail.com ranked 17th out of a list of over 5,000 tech companies. Mail.com President Lon Otremba credited the success to the Company's ability to cut messaging costs for customers and its focus on delivering reliable service. "The exploding growth of the messaging outsourcing industry is comparable to the telco boom in the early 20th century. At that time companies found building and maintaining their internal telephone switchboards too expensive. Eventually 'Ma Bell' resolved those issues and delivered the 'always on' telephone service the world required. Today, corporations are facing similar problems with the high costs of developing, maintaining and upgrading their own Internet messaging systems," explained Otremba. "Fortunately, Mail.com is able to resolve these issues for its customers by utilizing economies of scale to provide high quality messaging services at a lower cost than companies could provide themselves. And because we guarantee 24/7 system monitoring A System Monitor (SM) is a process within a distributed system for collecting and storing state data. There are many issues involved with designing and implementing a system monitor. and maintenance, we deliver the level of performance they need to run their businesses. It's a level of service every company requires, few can afford to provide on their own, but Mail.com can deliver effectively." Mail.com is one of the world's largest messaging service providers, delivering a customizable suite of e-mail and complementary services to businesses and end users who require the highest level of service, reliability and quality. The Company provides comprehensive and scalable messaging solutions supported by premier 24/7 system monitoring and customer service. Some of those solutions include hosted Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. , Novell GroupWise GroupWise is a cross-platform collaborative software product from Novell, Inc. offering e-mail, calendaring, instant messaging and document management. Summary GroupWise can operate on a number of server and workstation platforms. and Web/POP3-based e-mail and collaboration services; hosted e-mail firewall services such as virus scanning, spam blocking and content filtering See Web filtering and parental control software. ; and a full range of Web-based, desktop and production Internet Fax Using the Internet to send faxes. Fax servers accept an incoming fax message and route it to a fax server in the same locality as the destination fax machine. The fax server then makes a local telephone call to send the fax. solutions. Mail.com provides outsourced messaging solutions to 100 of the Fortune 500 companies including Ford Motor Company and General Electric; top-branded Web site partners such as NBCi, CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. SportsLine and CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. ; and several of the world's top Internet Service Providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. , such as EarthLink, Juno, Prodigy and Verizon. About Mail.Com Mail.com Inc. is a one-stop resource for Internet messaging services, providing reliable feature-rich e-mail and Internet fax services to businesses, ISPs, Web sites and direct to consumers through its flagship Web site: http://www.mail.com. Mail.com has a technology infrastructure of IP network facilities in 20 key countries and currently serves more than 18 million seats and 9,000 corporate customers worldwide. This news release may contain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to the future events or the future financial results of Mail.com. Investors are cautioned that such statements are only predictions and that actual events or results may differ materially. In evaluating such statements, investors should specifically consider the various factors which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those indicated from such forward-looking statements, including the matters set forth in Mail.com's reports and documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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