United Messaging Joins iPlanet Service Provider Partner Program To Enhance Its Internet-based E-mail Offering.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers WEST CHESTER West Chester, borough (1990 pop. 18,041), seat of Chester co., SE Pa., W of Philadelphia; inc. 1799. Primarily residential, West Chester was long the trade and processing center for an agricultural region that is now mainly suburbs. , Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 2, 2001 United Messaging(R), the leading enterprise messaging service provider, announced it has joined the iPlanet(sm) Service Provider (SP) Partner Program offered by iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, a Sun-Netscape Alliance (Sun-Netscape Alliance, Santa Clara, CA) A joint venture of Sun and Netscape to market Netscape's Web-based software products. The Alliance was formed when AOL acquired Netscape in 1999 to take advantage of the fact that the bulk of Netscape software was already running on Sun hardware. , to further ramp up Ramp Up To increase a company's operations in anticipation of increased demand. Notes: A company might 'ramp up' operations if they just signed a contract creating substantially more demand for their product. See also: Demand, Economies of Scale its Internet-based e-mail offerings to clients. This agreement reinforces an existing relationship and provides United Messaging access to a powerful combination of resources and partnering opportunities enabling it to penetrate new customer markets and speed the development of next generation, value-added hosted messaging applications solutions. "This is a great step forward for our company and our core services The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. portfolio," said Mary Kay Mary Kay is a brand of skin care and color cosmetics sold by Mary Kay Inc. Mary Kay World Headquarters is located in the Dallas suburb of Addison, Texas. Mary Kay Ash (d. November 22, 2001) founded Mary Kay Inc. on Friday, September 13, 1963. Elsen, United Messaging vice president of business development, responsible for strategic partnerships. "While we have been offering iPlanet solutions since 1999, this new phase to our relationship gives us a strong engineering level relationship for even more robust and capable Managed Services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality in our Internet Mail See Internet e-mail service. offerings. It also provides us with broad exposure to new audiences on a national and global scale and will help United Messaging consolidate its leadership position in the enterprise messaging market segment." Within the iPlanet SP Partner Program, United Messaging is a key member and receives the highest levels of technical support offered by iPlanet. The program also offers United Messaging co-marketing opportunities, including promotion at trade shows and customer demonstrations, joint-collateral through links on the companies' web sites, and lead generation through campaigns and customer referrals. "United Messaging's ability to provide Tier 1, 2, and 3 support on iPlanet products will help ensure a consistently high quality of service for their customers," said Wes Wasson, iPlanet vice president of product marketing. "United Messaging's leading positioning in the enterprise messaging space, coupled with iPlanet's market-leading communications software (communications, software) communications software - Application programs, operating system components, and probably firmware, forming part of a communication system. These different software components might be classified according to the functions within the Open Systems platform, creates an unbeatable offering and value proposition for United Messaging clients." About United Messaging United Messaging provides smarter enterprise messaging solutions via its hosted messaging and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. . Currently, the company handles more than one million e-mails per business day. United Messaging serves enterprises with collaborative, business-critical Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. , Lotus Notes/Domino, and iPlanet-based messaging applications. It delivers a unique combination of managed and professional services that increase messaging performance, reliability, scalability and security while reducing operational expense. For more information, contact United Messaging at www.unitedmessaging.com, or call 888/993-5088. United Messaging is a registered trademark of United Messaging, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned herein are either trademarks and /or registered trademarks of their respective owners in the United States and/or other countries. Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo and iPlanet are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., in the US and other countries. Netscape and the Netscape N logo are registered trademarks of Netscape Communications Corp. in the US and other countries. Other Netscape logos, product names and service names are also trademarks of Netscape Communications Corp., which may be registered in other countries. |
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