--- begin forwarded text From: "DONALD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: news Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 07:25:52 -0700 see <http://www.killen.com/tv>www.killen.com/tv for the interview..messagingdirect also see... <http://www.messagingdirect.com/press/killenprofile.pdf>http://www.mes sagingdirect.com/press/killenprofile.pdf InternetNews.com Fall ISPCON Live! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- MessagingDirect, Sendmail Partner to Produce Secure Mail Platform By Patricia Fusco InternetNews.com Assistant Editor October 27, 1999 [San Jose] MessagingDirect, Ltd. and Sendmail, Inc. have partnered to design a secure environment for companies' e-business efforts by integrating Sendmails Internet Mail platform with MessagingDirect's M-Mail messaging and M-Vault directory. As a part of the deal, Sendmail will resell MessagingDirect's M-Secure and M-Bill, electronic billing and payment application software to ISPs that may in turn, offer the enhanced e-mail services to businesses looking for a secure way to bill and communicate with clients online. M-Secure is an e-mail pipeline for creating, sending and receiving digitally signed and encrypted documents that can authenticate valid users of the service, anywhere in the world. M-Bill is an electronic bill delivery and payment application that can store more than 50 million bills and deliver up to 500 e-mails per second. The program virtually eliminates the need for paper billing systems because the commerce class application meets tough non-repudiation billing standards. Greg Olson, Sendmail, Inc. chief executive officer, said the partnership evolved when the company determined that in 5 to 10 years, most of paper mail commerce will move to e-mail. Olson said the development makes for fantastic opportunities for ISPs to enhance their e-mail services, today. "By working with technology partners to support a single Internet Mail platform, Sendmail will provide customers with more applications that use Internet Mail to reduce costs, increase productivity and build more profitable customer relationships," Olson said. "MessagingDirects e-business applications and services provide our customers with a secure and cost-effective means for communicating on the Internet." According to Jupiter Communications (JPTR), Sendmail powers more than 75 percent of the Internet mail servers and 80 percent of the Fortune 100 e-mail interfaces for the public Internet. Sendmails market dominance is due to founder Eric Allmans passion for open standards computing that motivated him to first offering Sendmail for free, and the fact that ISP technicians find Sendmails programming exceptionally user friendly. ISPs will find Sendmails same familiar, easy to use, standards-based system has been put to work to offer MessagingDirects M-Secure and M-Bill Applications. Olson said ISPs looking to enhance their profits would recognize that its a good time for them to consider carrier class e-mail as part of their value-added services for e-commerce enterprises." "Now is a great time for ISPs and ASPs to get into the e-commerce e-mail market," Olson said. "Today, $400 billion is being spent on direct marketing mail, order processing, bill and distribution payment and account systems. Its the biggest part of a $700 billion industry that is easy for ISPs to tap into and deploy." Don Pare, MessagingDirect Ltd. chief executive officer, said constructing the foundation for commerce class, managed end-to-end e-mail system was no small feat. "To put a bill in your in-box electronically, we had to make 3.5 million lines of code easy for ISPs to deploy. Then we had to seamlessly deliver the secure messages to an authenticated client for pennies per delivery, in order to entice businesses" Pare said. Pare added that partnering with the master of e-mail delivery systems was the best way to make sure a standards-based approach was utilized. "By partnering with Sendmail, we believe that our Internet Mail services and applications will meet the requirements of doing e-business on the Internet, now and in the future," Pare said. "Our standards-based approach to development will provide out customers with the functionality, transactional reliability and the security critical to do e-business commerce on the Internet." The Sendmail, MessagingDirect partnership secure mail applications have already produced a price breakthrough for delivering secure messaging over the Internet. In the near future, the two companies plan to further develop e-mail applications operating off from the same robust Sendmail platform to offer content management, unified messaging and certified e-mail delivery. --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
