Trintech Joins Oracle Wireless Partner Initiative to Market Payment Platform for Mobile Commerce.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 17, 2000 Trintech Founding Payment Partner for Oracle 9i Application Server Wireless Edition Trintech (Nasdaq:TTPA TTPA Tocopherol Transfer Protein, Alpha TTPA Telephone Twisted Pair Adapter ) (Neuer Markt:TTP TTP (thymidine triphosphate): see thymine. ), a leading provider of secure electronic payment infrastructure solutions, announced today it has joined the Oracle(R) (Nasdaq:ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ) Wireless Partner Initiative to provide the wireless payment solution that powers Oracle's mCommerce platform. As part of this new initiative, Trintech's payment technology for mCommerce, PayWare(R) mAccess(TM), will be integrated with Oracle's 9i(TM) Application Server Wireless Edition. This solution will allow wireless operators and service providers to take advantage of a fully integrated and functionally rich mCommerce suite including a powerful payment platform enabling mCommerce transactions. Trintech's PayWare mAccess is a modular, server-based mCommerce payment solution that enables 'one touch' payment via mobile devices with sophisticated built-in security features including voice authentication providing a secure and convenient solution for the user. Oracle's9i Application Server Wireless Edition provides numerous software services designed to support widespread access of all applications via the Wireless Internet by any device. "We are pleased to be working with Oracle, a leading global software company with a history of providing innovative solutions to e-businesses, to extend this opportunity to the mobile Internet Refers to gaining access to the Internet using a lightweight, handheld device. See Mobile IP, PDA, smartphone and mobile TV. and help eBusinesses to strengthen their mCommerce initiatives," said Trevor Healy, general manager of Trintech's mCommerce Business Unit. "Trintech plans to work extensively with Oracle to promote this integrated payment platform so that operators can immediately benefit from the global mCommerce opportunity." "For mCommerce to take place, operators must be able to provide a trusted and convenient payment solution to their subscribers," said Thomas Kurian, vice president, E-Business. "Oracle9i Application Server Wireless Edition has the flexibility and functionality that enables us to integrate with Trintech's payment product to offer a complete mCommerce solution." About Trintech Trintech is a leading provider of secure electronic payment infrastructure solutions for real world, Internet and wireless transactions. The company, which was founded in 1987, offers a complete range of payment software products for credit, debit, commercial and procurement card applications. Trintech's secure product range, deployed in over 35 countries worldwide, covers the payment requirements of consumers, card issuing banks, merchant acquiring institutions, merchants, eMerchants, telcos, wireless operators, ISPs/CSPs, portals and large corporations. Trintech's range of scalable, open systems architecture solutions for 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) and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (TM) platforms provides the payment infrastructure necessary to facilitate eCommerce, mobile commerce and the emerging world of television commerce. Trintech can be contacted in the U.S. at 2755 Campus Drive, San Mateo, CA 94403 (Tel:650/227-7000) and in Ireland at Trintech Building, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18 (Tel:353-1-207-4000). Trintech can be reached on the Web at http://www.trintech.com. Investor information can be found at www.trintech.com/investor. About PayWare eIssuer and mAccess Trintech's PayWare mAccess is a modular, server-based mCommerce payment solution that enables card issuing banks, portals/ASPs, content providers and wireless network operators to securely process card payment transactions from a variety of wireless devices, including cell phones and PDAs. When deployed in conjunction with Trintech's PayWare eIssuer, a server-based consumer payment technology, wireless users benefit greatly from enhanced security and "one touch" form fill of mobile commerce merchant payment pages. About Oracle's Wireless Partner Initiative Oracle recently launched its Oracle Wireless Partner Initiative to assist independent software vendors (ISVs), application service providers (ASPs) and system integrators (SIs) deploy wireless portals and Internet applications and services. Oracle's wireless Internet software includes its market-leading Oracle9i AS Wireless Edition and a set of wireless development tools. The new initiative is part of the Oracle Partner Program. About Oracle9i Internet Application Server Wireless Edition Oracle9i AS Wireless Edition (formerly Portal-to-Go) allows companies to wirelessly enable any new or existing internet applications or content for any Web-enabled device including: smart phones, pagers, PDAs, handheld computers, standard phones connected to interactive voice recognition (IVR (Interactive Voice Response) An automated telephone information system that speaks to the caller with a combination of fixed voice menus and data extracted from databases in real time. ) systems, etc. Oracle9i AS Wireless Edition adapts any Internet content to XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. and transforms it to any markup language markup language Standard text-encoding system consisting of a set of symbols inserted in a text document to control its structure, formatting, or the relationship among its parts. The most widely used markup languages are SGML, HTML, and XML. supported by any device (HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , WML (Wireless Markup Language) A tag-based language used in the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). WML is an XML document type allowing standard XML and HTML tools to be used to develop WML applications. It evolved from Openwave's HDML, but WML is not a superset of HDML. , HDML (Handheld Device Markup Language) A specialized version of HTML designed to enable wireless pagers, cellphones and other handheld devices to obtain information from Web pages. HDML was developed by Phone. , VoiceXML, VoxML, SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. , etc.). With its open architecture and use of XML technology, Oracle9i AS Wireless Edition ensures support of current and emerging standards. In addition, Oracle9i AS Wireless Edition provides for location-based services See mobile positioning. , wireless messaging, wireless e-commerce, and extensive personalization for users and devices, allowing for customization of services as well as device display. Using Oracle9i AS Wireless Edition companies can quickly build or extend existing Web services and applications for the wireless internet. This press release may contain "forward looking statements" 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. Any "forward looking statements" in this press release are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include the ability to integrate mAccess with Oracle's 9i Application Server Wireless Edition, develop, market and sell its eCommerce software, the market acceptance of the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. or SET(TM) standards for eCommerce payment transactions, its ability to effectively respond to future changes in the ePayment software market and the continued market demand for its electronic point-of-sale systems. Actual performance may also be affected by other factors more fully discussed in Trintech's Form 20-F and Form 6-K for the quarter ended July 31, 2000 filed with the US. Securities and Exchange Commission. Note to Editors: Oracle is a registered trademark and Oracle9i is a trademark or registered trademark of Oracle Corp. |
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