ONE Isn't the Loneliest Number

Hoffman Estates, IL  April 4, 2001  ONE, Inc., an e-business service firm, today announced it has formed a strategic relationship with iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, a Sun-Netscape Alliance. As a result of the partnership, ONE will support and implement the iPlanet Platform to help companies build and launch their e-business operations.

"ONE shares our vision and is an expert in implementing our products," said Glenn Cross, vice president of worldwide channels at iPlanet. "Our business philosophy hinges on providing e-commerce technologies that work well across a company's infrastructure and we've developed a reputation for providing reliable applications that integrate smoothly with our clients' disparate systems. ONE ensures that our initiatives are successfully carried through."

Through this strategic relationship, ONE also gains access to the newest iPlanet software for testing analysis, development and education.

"Using the iPlanet product solutions speeds up the timetable for implementing a customer's critical e-business initiatives and applications," said Jim Guinn II, iPlanet Practice Manager, ONE, Inc. "This obviously has a positive impact on that organization's strategic direction. Partnering with iPlanet also gives us the opportunity to work with an innovative industry leader.

"Because iPlanet's solutions are built upon open Internet standards, we eliminate the time spent interacting with a myriad of component vendors and writing complicated integration code," Guinn said. "We've done millions of dollars worth of work with iPlanet for Fortune 500 companies and dot-coms."