ANNOUNCE: Matrice W3 System (Apache-based, mySQL backed web solution)

[Giovanni Maruzzelli <ma...@matrice.it>]

November 3rd 1997

Matrice srl Proudly Announces:

	Pre-Beta distribution of Matrice W3 System for Linux (x86)
	(Apache-based, MySQL backed webserving solution)



After some two years of development and testing, Matrice W3 System
(MWS) is available for you to try and/or download at :

		http://www.matrice.it/beta_eng.html.

MWS is a complete solution for your web presence that enables you to access
control, tracking, accounting, billing, marketing analyse the end user's
accesses to your site.

Matrice W3 System is running since 1996 the Sole 24 Ore web site 
http://www.ilsole24ore.it, the most important Italian financial newspaper 
(more than 600 thousand hits/day) where notably it manages the for pay 
accesses to "Banche Dati Online", the premium financial and economic 
data-base, in addition to all the traffic for registered and unregistered 
users.

Never dreamed of a package that gives you the power, reliability and 
throughput of Apache, with the ease of a graphical web based interface to 
manage all of its features (and vhosts) with simple point and click, with
the added security of SSL v3 encryption, intertwined (through ODBC) to your
database engine of choice to manage authorization, intranet security, selling
information with 7 different accounting models, graphical and tabular
analisys of end-users activity, deep marketing stats, reports on banners and
advertising redemption, down to printing the invoices or usage reports for
your subscribers?

MWS comprises 6 major components:

	-an SSL v3 capable WebServer (based on and compatible with Apache)

	-a graphic HTML interface to configure and manage the server (via SSL)

	-an Office 97 based application for data entry, end users management, 
	 statistic reports, marketing analisys, accounting and billing

	-a relational SQL database (mySQL) on which the contracts, end users,
	 accesses, transactions data reside

	-an installation utility

	-documentation

This pre-beta release of Matrice W3 System is a bit rough, not for the 
fainted-hearts.

It is only for Linux on Intel machines with kernel 2.0 or later,
and will stop working January the first 1998.

The data-entry, accounting, statistics application needs a Win95 machine 
(connected through a LAN to the Linux machine) to run on.

Releases for other operating systems (also for NT) will be announced in the
next weeks.

Press contacts:
		e-mail:	info@matrice.it
		fax:	+39 2 2952 0528

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Matrice W3 System contains code developed by the Apache Group for the Apache
HTTPD Project (http://www.apache.org/).

Matrice W3 System contains code developed by Ben Laurie for use in the Apache-
SSL HTTP Project.

Matrice W3 System is distributed with the MySQL relational Database engine
developed by TCX DataConsult AB (http://www.tcx.se/).

Matrice srl (http://www.matrice.it) is an Italian company, based in Milano,
dedicated to provide its customers with technologies and solutions for industry
grade Internet/intranet presence.



 
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