ExperTelligence powers up Dun & Bradstreet's new Electronic Commerce Directory with WebBase.SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 1995--This week, ExperTelligence Inc. (stock symbol:EXGP) will demonstrate WebBase in the Dun & Bradstreet Information Services See Information Systems. booth at Fall Internet World '95, in Boston. Dun & Bradstreet will demonstrate its new Dun's Electronic Commerce Directory for the Web, powered by WebBase. WebBase, a database server released in August, allows Web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. or telephone number. Each company page or record includes the D-U-N-S (R) number, company name, location, telephone, annual sales, number of employees and main business activities. Additionally, users will find links to all the business's Web sites and be able to directly receive a Business Background Report for details on that company. The Business Background Report, priced at $20, has been available on the Dun & Bradstreet Information Services site (http://www.dbisna.com) since June and is delivered on-line to customers. Billing is by credit card. The Dun's Electronic Commerce Directory is the first search and report delivery service via the World Wide Web. D&B will expand access to worldwide companies in the coming months, but for now searches are restricted to U.S. commercial-domain name companies. The directory will be available for beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the before the end of the year. ``With WebBase, we were able to quickly build a database engine for the Web using our existing database,'' said Ted Wolf, senior applications consultant at Dun & Bradstreet. ``Other programming methods would have taken months of work to accomplish what we did with WebBase in just a few weeks.'' To obtain more information about WebBase and the new Dun's Electronic Commerce Directory, visit Booth 1033 at Internet World or visit the following Web site: http://webbase.expertelligence.com/db3/dunmain.htf. ExperTelligence, a publicly held company since 1984, is a pioneer in leading-edge computer-software technology. Like Spyglass, the maker of Enhanced Mosaic, and Netscape, it is among the few publicly traded companies publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. developing Internet software. Dun & Bradstreet Information Services, North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , is a company of the Dun & Bradstreet Corp., the world's leading marketer of information, software and services for business decision-making, with 1994 revenues of $4.9 billion. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: WebBase and webbase.com are trademarks of ExperTelligence Inc. WebBase has been tested with all the major Web servers on the market, including Compaq, Dell, Gateway and 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) . CONTACT: ExperTelligence Inc., Santa Barbara Brian Colvin, 805/962-2558 |
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