Commerce One Corrects and Replaces Previous Announcement re Hires Top Gartner Group Analysts, BW0082, CA-COMMERCE-ONE.WALNUT CREEK Walnut Creek, residential city (1990 pop. 60,569), Contra Costa co., W Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area; inc. 1914. It is the trade and shipping center of an extensive agricultural area where walnuts are among the major product. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 8, 1999-- Commerce One Hires Top Gartner Group (company) Gartner Group - One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA. Analysts to Speed Deployment of Global Trading Web; Gartner E-Commerce Analysts Roy Satterthwaite and Chuck Shih Join Commerce One Commerce One, Inc., a leading provider of electronic commerce solutions, today announced that e-commerce industry analysts Roy Satterthwaite and Chuck Shih, formerly of Gartner Group, have joined Commerce One to further accelerate the growth of Commerce One's Global Trading Web. Shih and Satterthwaite are among the world's leading industry analysts focusing on electronic commerce and marketplaces. "The Global Trading Web represents the future of e-commerce," said Carl Falk, vice president of Commerce One's Global Trading Web. "To expedite ex·pe·dite tr.v. ex·pe·dit·ed, ex·pe·dit·ing, ex·pe·dites 1. To speed up the progress of; accelerate. 2. the worldwide deployment of the Global Trading Web, we have assembled some of the industry's top talent, and we are especially delighted that such renown industry experts as Chuck Shih and Roy Satterthwaite have elected to join us." The Commerce One Global Trading Web is a network of regional and vertical interoperable The ability for one system to communicate or work with another. See interoperability. business-to-business e-commerce portals called MarketSites. Through the Global Trading Web, businesses of all sizes can enable their employees to source, buy and sell goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. on a global basis, in real time. Today, regional MarketSites are being operated by British Telecommunications, Commerce One, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph and Singapore Telecom. The Global Trading Web can be accessed by a wide range of commercially available buying and selling applications, including Commerce One BuySite, as well as applications from Intershop, PeopleSoft, RightWorks and SAP. "Based on my experience as an analyst working with all of the key players in the e-commerce vendor community as well as hundreds of clients in global 2000 companies, "I believe that Commerce One has the best approach to global business-to-business electronic commerce," said Satterthwaite. "I look forward to contributing to the success of Commerce One's Global Trading Web as the premier global business-to-business trading network." "Commerce One is really the only vendor to have successfully established a new category in the world of business-to-business electronic commerce -- the Global Trading Web," said Shih. "By enabling the interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. of Commerce One MarketSite.net with MarketSite portal offerings from BT, NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform , SingTel, and other vertical and coalition marketplaces, Commerce One has the opportunity to build a worldwide infrastructure for global trading, content, collaboration, and decision support that will accelerate business-to-business commerce into the new millenium. I am excited to be part of that effort." Prior to joining Commerce One, Satterthwaite served as research director for Gartner Group's Electronic Commerce and Extranet Application service, with expertise business-to-business electronic commerce applications. Prior to joining Gartner Group, Satterthwaite spent 15 years at 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) , most recently in the company's Internet division where he was responsible for product development and marketing for web application servers and electronic commerce tools. Before joining Commerce One, Shih was a research director with Gartner Group's E-Business Transformation services. He joined Gartner Group from Netscape Communications Corp., where he led the architecture, design, and development of a variety of e-commerce applications. Shih has also held several director-level positions at Premenos Corp., where he was responsible for Internet and EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. standards activities, as well as the development of UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and NT EDI translator e-mail, and security products. Prior to that, Shih held a variety of engineering, and product development and management positions for IBM Corp. About Commerce One Commerce One (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 : CMRC CMRC Canadian Motosport Racing Club CMRC Commerce One Inc. (stock symbol) CMRC Caribbean Marine Research Center CMRC Crime Mapping Research Center CMRC Credit Management Research Centre (UK) ) is a leading provider of electronic commerce solutions that dynamically link buying and supplying organizations into real-time trading communities. The Commerce Chain Solution by Commerce One, comprising Commerce One BuySite(TM) and Commerce One MarketSite(TM), enables companies to significantly reduce operational costs and increase efficiency by automating the entire indirect goods and services supply chain. As a result, enterprise organizations are able to realize a strategic competitive advantage as well as a rapid return on investment. Commerce One is located in Walnut Creek, Calif., and can be reached by phone at 800/308-3838 or 925/941-6000 or via the Internet at http://www.commerceone.com/ or http://www.marketsite.net/. Note to Editors: Commerce One, Commerce Chain, BuySite, MarketSite.net, and Global Trading Web are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Commerce One. Other product and company names mentioned herein might be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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