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July 26, 2001 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Strategic Internet Investments Incorporated, today announced
that Strategic Profits Inc. (strategicprofitsinc.com), is partnering with Telus (telus.com) to provide website
development, eCRM customer support and PayPaq secure online payment services
for the Telus BizEssentials suite of e-commerce products.
"This partnership enables Telus to use the power of the Internet to deliver
the best customizable and integrated e-commerce solutions available to
Canadian businesses," said Mark Schnarr, executive vice-president, Telus
Ventures. "Focused on meeting the growing needs of small-to-medium-sized
business customers, Telus is offering the BizEssentials suite of eCommerce
products to make it easy and affordable for businesses to sell online."
"This is an example of our alliance in action,'' says Darren Entwistle, President and CEO of Telus. "Through SPI, Telus is able to
deliver affordable, high quality Web development services, responsive and
knowledgeable customer support, and secure online payment processing to
their small to medium-sized business customers."
SPI are providers of e-commerce and e-philanthropy solutions since 1994 and
secure payment services since 1997.
True to the nature of the open source movement, SolidSpeed has released the
software for these new products via the Web, at http://www.fezhead.org.
Solidspeed says their FEZ-Probester is easy to implement Web site
performance measurement software that is embedded in a Web site's HTML. It
provides end-to-end measurement of Web site performance, that measures and
reports actual user download times. Other Web measurement solutions attempt
to simulate users, creating
additional site load and failing to match the distribution of traffic for
the site being measured.
With SolidSpeed's FEZ-Director, a global site selector, (or global load
balancer), Web site administrators can implement multi-site versions of
their site through mirroring, caching, and multi-homing. FEZ-Director is
unique in that it offers a purely software-based site selection systems
solution that runs on all flavors of UNIX and Windows and is easily
installed, configured, maintained, and updated. As such, FEZ-Director is
well suited for incorporation into 3rd party content server packages.
FEZ-Director uses real-time measurements of latency and packet loss along
with DNS and http redirection methods to direct users to the best of
multiple Web site mirrors or caches.
Zona Research recently reported that $4.6 billion per year is lost due to
users abandoning slow Web sites. The Boston Group said that 48 percent of
Web visitors would leave prematurely because a site is running too slow.
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