UWI.Com Retains PricewaterhouseCoopers Securities to Secure Strategic Partnership; E-Commerce Company Seeks Accelerated Growth.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 1999--UWI.Com, the leading provider of XML-based Internet forms for business-to-business e-commerce, announced today that the company is actively seeking a strategic partnership that will take advantage of the expanding market for the company's award-winning solutions. The company has retained the services of PricewaterhouseCoopers Securities LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control to facilitate this strategic move. "We have articulated and implemented a clear, comprehensive vision for open electronic commerce," said Geir Ramleth, Chairman of UWI UWI University of the West Indies UWI Unique Well Identifier UWI Unisoft Wares, Inc. UWI Unattended Windows Installer UWI Unified Workforce Intelligence .Com's Board of Directors. "We want to accelerate the development and deployment of our solutions by building a shared vision with a leading-edge partner." UWI.Com is the first company worldwide to provide an open Internet-based replacement for the documents that are generated in paper-based commerce. Through a comprehensive international network of over 50 resellers, system integrators, and technology partners, UWI.Com services a wide range of Global 2000 and public sector customers. UWI.Com's private sector customers, such as DuPont, Sprint, Ameritech, RE/MAX RE/MAX Real Estate Maximums (Canada) , and Unisys, are drawn from transportation, insurance, real estate, health care, and regulated industries like telecommunications and utilities. The company's public sector clients include the Internal Revenue Service, the Office of the Secretary of Defense The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) is part of the United States Department of Defense and includes the entire staff of the Secretary of Defense. It is the principal staff element of the Secretary of Defense in the exercise of policy development, planning, resource , Defense Automated Printing Service, and Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. "This is a very exciting opportunity," said Mark Fahlberg, Managing Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers Securities LLC. "UWI.Com is a rapidly-growing company that provides a critical, cutting-edge e-commerce solution serving an exploding market." Qualified parties are invited to access the corporate profile website at http://b2b.uwi.com or contact Mark Fahlberg at: 703/610-7550. What the Industry Says about UWI.Com "UWI.Com provides an important piece of the e-commerce puzzle: the ability to securely send and receive legal as well as other contractual agreements for conducting business-to-business commerce." -- InternetWeek 10 E-commerce Companies to Watch "UWI.Com is the first company to offer a comprehensive, off-the-shelf solution to the problem of Internet-based transaction documents." -- Cohasset Associates, Inc. "UWI.Com is a sign of the second coming of the paperless office Long predicted, the paperless office is still a myth. Although paper usage has been reduced in some organizations, it has increased in others. Today's PCs make it easy to churn out documents. As one technology eliminates paper, another comes along to increase usage. ." -- The Industry Standard "If your business currently uses legal agreements on the Web, XFDL XFDL Extensible Forms Description Language and the InternetForms System should be something you look at carefully." -- Internet Business magazine About UWI.Com (www.uwi.com) UWI.Com, developer of the first 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. Internet forms software, is a leader in the e-commerce software industry. Unlike many publishers, UWI.Com's solutions are based on open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced that are freely available to the public. UWI.Com's customers include Global 2000 and public sector organizations, such as the IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws. , the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Dupont, Allina Health Systems, Sprint, Ameritech, Remax, Unisys, and American Legal Net. UWI.Com's partners include such companies as VeriSign, (Nasdaq:VRSN VRSN Verisign, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) VRSN Version Number (NEC) ), Optika (Nasdaq:OPTK), PenOp, Action Technologies, and Datakey, Inc. (Nasdaq:DKEY). Interested parties may learn more about UWI.Com and its products through the company's web site at http://www.uwi.com or by calling 1-888-517-2675. NOTE: Trademarks: UWI.Com, The Internet Forms Company, and InternetForms System are trademarks of UWI Unisoft Wares Inc. All other products named herein are trademarks of their respective manufacturers. |
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