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FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Microsoft FrontPage-based Shopping Cart Released on UNIX
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 8, 2001 (INB) -- ComCity® Corporation
http://www.comcity.com, announced today, that it has released
SalesCart-XTM http://www.salescart.com, the first and only
FrontPage E-commerce shopping cart that allows total
customizability of the checkout web pages on a Unix Server. With
the introduction of SalesCart-X, now any Web hosting provider,
Unix or Microsoft® Windows® NT-based, can provide
"stand-alone" shopping cart capabilities to their FrontPage
customers with a "real" software solution as opposed to a
much-less customizable shopping cart "service" or close-ended
program. SalesCart-X is the first such FrontPage shopping cart
running on Unix to allow anyone to customize the entire look and
feel of every single page of their shopping cart via a very easy
scripting language and extend the basic e-commerce solution to
their particular corporate or personal needs.
The majority of Internet Service Providers and Web Presence
Providers (ISP's/WPP's) host FrontPage-based Web Sites on Unix
servers, which are not compatible with the majority of FrontPage
shopping cart software packages based on Active Server Pages. Until
the release of SalesCart-X, FrontPage customers hosting their Web
sites on Unix-based systems and who desire to add E-commerce to
their Web site, had to either purchase a shopping cart service or
they had to switch to a different provider. SalesCart-X provides
100% cross platform compatibility to host "anywhere", including on
any Unix ISP, and have the same 100% front-end customizability as
shopping carts running on Windows NT or Windows 2000. "We offer
FrontPage-based Unix Hosting at half the price of our Windows
NT-based hosting, SalesCart-X will allow us to leverage our
e-commerce hosting packages to a lower price than virtually any
other Web Presence Provider for Microsoft FrontPage" said Edward
York, Vice President of 724 Hosting and beta site for SalesCart-X.
Other comparable Service-based shopping carts run on 3rd party
servers that may or may-not be compatible with Unix. These shopping
cart services usually run on a different server from the server that
your Web site runs on. Unlike SalesCart-X, this requires you to pay
for Web Hosting twice - once for the Web site and a second time for
the back-end shopping cart service. In addition, this process is
rarely scaleable since the back-end is mostly or totally outside of
the control of the merchant and web designer. As the company grows
to a point where they want more control over the look-and-feel of the
checkout system typically a complete "re-design" of their Web site
is required.
"With an installed base of more than 5 million, we know that FrontPage
users want to be able to choose from a wide variety of Web site hosting
companies to host their e-commerce site," said Nancy Buchanan,
Microsoft Lead Product Manager for FrontPage. "We're pleased that
ComCity is helping to give FrontPage users more options for selling
products on the sites they create with FrontPage with its new
SalesCart-X."
"SalesCart X uses PHP and mySQL, thus allowing any web designer with
only a modest amount of scripting experience, to completely customize
the checkout system for their particular applications" according to
Michael Barber, President and CEO of ComCity Corp.
http://www.comcity.com, the makers of SalesCart. "This gives shopping
cart customers who use FrontPage, a scaleable shopping cart for the
first time that can meet the needs of any merchant running on any
platform"
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