Netscape Will Help Ford's World-Wide Extranet
4 June 1998
Netscape Directory Server Provides Foundation for Ford Motor Company's World-Wide Extranet
Centralized Directory Services Simplify Extranet Administration of More Than
200,000 Users and Reduces Cost of Ownership
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 4 -- Netscape Communications
Corporation today announced that Ford Motor Company
is using Netscape(R) Directory Server software as the foundation for the Ford
Supplier Network, an Extranet that lets Ford deliver information and
applications to Ford's suppliers around the world. Netscape Directory Server
provides the service-ready infrastructure that enables Ford to simplify
administration and reduce the cost of ownership for one of the industry's most
advanced Extranets. With more than 200,000 directory entries for people and
other resources stored in a central directory, Ford's Extranet system is one
of the largest directory deployments to date.
Ford has found that directory performance is crucial to the successful
deployment of its Extranet applications, with even small degradations in
directory performance resulting in unusable applications. Netscape Directory
Server solves this problem for Ford by providing the high levels of
performance and reliability that Ford requires.
"As a leader and innovator in the automotive industry, Ford is taking the
idea of a corporate Extranet to the next level by delivering highly-scalable
Extranet applications to suppliers around the world," said John Paul, senior
vice president and general manager of Netscape's Server Products Division.
"By leveraging the performance and scalability of Netscape Directory Server,
Ford is able to deliver these applications as Internet-based services that are
more reliable and lower in cost than was previously possible."
Netscape Mission Control provides realtime directory and security services
that enable centralized, low cost management of a myriad of Internet
applications deployed by Enterprise Service Providers (ESPs) and independent
software companies. Mission Control's service-ready infrastructure is ideal
for companies competing in the Net economy where high performance,
scalability, 24x7 reliability and strong security that extends outside the
enterprise are critical for success.
Netscape Communications Corporation is a premier provider of open software
and services for linking people and information over enterprise networks and
the Internet. The company offers a full line of clients, servers, development
tools, commercial applications and professional services to create a complete
platform for next generation, live online applications. Traded on Nasdaq
under the symbol "NSCP," Netscape Communications Corporation is based in
Mountain View, California.
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