HP and Intershop Launch Global Alliance to Deliver E-commerce Solutions.Business Editors PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif., and SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , June 7, 2000 -- Hewlett-Packard Company and Intershop Communications, Inc. today announced a global strategic alliance to deliver one-to-many e-commerce solutions based on Intershop's enfinity software application and HP hardware technologies and services. HP and Intershop will promote and market the e-commerce solutions to customers, including medium- to large-sized businesses and dot coms dot com - com . In addition, HP will deploy Intershop enfinity as one of the software applications used for its own Business-to-Business (B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business ) e-commerce initiatives. The alliance enables HP and Intershop customers quickly and easily to deploy a complete suite of sell-side e-commerce solutions based on Intershop's enfinity, as well as leverage a readily available and scalable hardware platform. These solutions support the widest range of current and rapidly emerging e-commerce business models that enable businesses to sell anywhere on the Internet -- through company and affiliate Web sites, online marketplaces, wireless devices, portals and machine-to-machine e commerce -- all on a single platform. "In the digital economy, customers need a robust platform on which they can rapidly deploy e-commerce solutions to take advantage of immediate market opportunities," said Ann Livermore, president of HP's Enterprise and Commercial Business. "With this alliance, Intershop brings a leading sell-side e-commerce platform to HP's e-services solutions for both B2B and B2C (Business to Consumer) Refers to a business communicating with or selling to an individual rather than a company. See B2B. (Business-to-Consumer) arenas." "Working with HP will help us deliver e-commerce solutions more quickly to market," said Stephan Schambach, chief executive officer, Intershop. "This relationship will enable enterprise customers around the world to take advantage of our e-commerce offerings through HP's line of highly scalable, reliable platforms." By porting Intershop's enfinity product to HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. (1), the application can be deployed in a secure, highly available and scalable 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). (R) system computing environment. Intershop's products are currently available on HP's NT-based platform and will be offered on HP-UX later this year. Intershop enfinity will accommodate the complete suite of HP-UX hardware, including the recently introduced HP 9000 A-Class servers. "Intershop enfinity offers the enterprise exceptional selling features," said Nigel Ball, vice president and general manager of HP's E-Services Partner Division. "It closely integrates with existing business systems and has the flexibility to grow with our customers' future e-commerce needs as a standard platform for B2B or B2C e-commerce B2C e-commerce The conducting of commerce by companies, government agencies, and institutions with consumers over the Internet. Amazon.com is typical of a company engaged in B2C e-commerce. endeavors." "The HP and Intershop relationship forms a powerful, worldwide go-to-market team," said Keith Costello, president of Intershop, "Customers will benefit from our comprehensive and tightly integrated e-commerce solutions, which can be up and running in some cases within 90 days, as businesses focus on getting to market sooner with marketplaces and other emerging e-commerce opportunities." About Intershop Intershop Communications is the world's fastest growing provider of e-commerce applications software and solutions for the enterprise. Intershop's software offers the quickest time-to-market today with the greatest flexibility for tomorrow. In addition, Intershop e-commerce solutions enable customers to "Sell Anywhere" by supporting the widest range of current and rapidly emerging e-commerce business models. With more than 270,000 licenses sold worldwide, Intershop customers include some of the world's largest commerce service providers and enterprises such as AltaVista, Concentric, Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom AG (ISIN: DE0005557508, FWB: DTE, NYSE: DT, LSE: DEU, TYO: 9496 ) (abbreviated DTAG) is a telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is the largest telecommunications company in Germany and in the EU. , Go2Net, Mindspring, Nortel, PSINet, U S West Dex DEX - A cross between Modula-2 and C by W. van Oortmerssen. Amiga version 1.2. , Bosch, Canon USA, Columbia-Tri Star, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Hewlett-Packard Company, Kraft, Lufthansa, Mercedes Benz Mercedes Benz expensive automobile and status symbol. [Trademarks: Crowley Trade, 368] See : Luxury U.S. International, Motorola, Sony and Waterstone's. Founded in 1992, Intershop is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in the U.S., Germany, France, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Sweden, Finland, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , Singapore and the United Kingdom and can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.intershop.com. About HP Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services -- is focused on making technology and its benefits accessible to individuals and businesses through simple appliances, useful e-services and an Internet infrastructure that's always on. HP has 86,000 employees worldwide and had total revenue from continuing operations continuing operations Parts of a business that are expected to be maintained as an ongoing segment of an overall business operation. Income and losses from continuing operations are reported separately if any segments have been discontinued during the of $42.4 billion in its 1999 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. (1) HP-UX Release 10.20 and later and HP-UX Release 11.00 and later (in both 32- and 64-bit configurations) on all HP 9000 computers are Open Group UNIX 95 branded products. UNIX is a registered trademark of the Open Group. |
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