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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - MOU signing between MnEportal.com with sttarfire.com and Sun Microsystems Malaysia
18 Sept 2000 - KUALA LUMPUR, September 18: Computing leader Sun Microsystems and e-Business solutions provider Sttarfire.com today signed an agreement under Sun's iForce initiative to provide technology support to MnEportal.com, a business hub for the mechanical and electrical industry.
MnEportal.com plans to offer its portal participants a reliable and secure virtual environment to exchange information and to conduct cost-effective business-to-business e-Commerce transactions.
"MnEportal.com will establish an online community for its members, providing them with access to valuable information, news and content so that they are able to make informed and cost-effective e-Business transactions," said Luke Long, President of MnEportal.com "This is a major breakthrough for the M&E industry as a major contributor to the country's economy," he said.
MnEportal aims to enable suppliers and buyers to have access to products, services, suppliers, news, tenders and auctions as well as useful database and links. Suppliers can showcase and promote their products and services to buyers around the world. MnEportal.com is also a single point of access for real-time information such as e-mail, news, forums, products, tenders, auction and directory to encourage knowledge sharing and collaboration within the M&E industry.
"There are a lot of mechanical and electrical companies which are unaware of the business deals they can achieve outside their own countries. What we can do is to inform them of key business developments and opportunities in their industry from an international perspective and give them a chance to pitch to a wider business audience," said Luke Long, President of MnEportal.com Sdn Bhd.
Commenting on the Sun-Sttarfire.com alliance to power MnEportal, Sun's Managing Director, Govinathan Pillai said, "We see bright prospects for MnEportal.com. as it is coming to market when Malaysia's economy is on a boom cycle.
"All key economic indicators point to the M&E sector regaining its strength after the 1997 recession and by migrating into e-Commerce, we're confident their growth potential will be considerably higher," he said.
"As part of Sun's commitment to assist companies to get into the dot-com space, and with Sun's proven record of reliability and scalability, we are providing MnEportal.com the best of class technology to ensure a reliable service for the portal which scale as it expands," highlighted Govinathan. iForce is Sun's initiative to bring together under one umbrella all of Sun's dot-com programmes, products, services and solutions aimed at customers ranging from startups to large enterprises. It is part of a far-reaching effort designed to provide customers with the relationships and expertise they need to get their businesses dot-commed quickly.
Concurring with Sun was sttarfire.com Managing Director Ron Tan. "We are extremely excited to be part of the MnEportal.com's aggressive efforts to create a complete e-Marketplace for the M&E industry."
"In this Internet economy, speed to market is the essence and to be able to develop and deploy these community and business-to-business applications on top of our existing Sttarfire Portal Application Framework (SPAF) further exemplifies the power of our portal application framework in introducing new portal solutions to the market quickly and scale with it thereafter," he added.
sttarfire.com develops and markets a complete suite of Java-based portal infrastructure and vertical industry application software for deployment across different industries. Sttarfire Portal Solutions are designed to provide the flexibility and scalability to meet different e-business strategies and needs, ensure higher developer productivity and shorter time to market. Speed to market can be achieved by deploying sttarfire's own suite of portal-ready software. The software is built on a modular approach and is based on an underlying Sttarfire Portal Application Framework (SPAF).
About MnEportal.com Sdn Bhd
MnEportal.com intends to be an Internet portal for the M&E industry, offering participants a reliable and secure virtual environment to exchange information and to conduct business-to-business e-Commerce transactions. Among the services MnEportal.com plans to offer are e-Shops, internet auctions and internet group buying. e-Shops or a virtual mall housing a comprehensive range of e-Commerce and catalogue shops from the industry's many participants will be the showcase of MnEportal.com.
Complementary electronic services such as inventory, RFQ and RFP will also be provided. The portal also aims to provide a full-fledged Internet auction and bidding facility to allow businesses to sell new or used goods, and surpluses. MnEportal.com also will act as a central purchasing agency for its community members to get volume discounts. Other e-Services to be offered include a search engine, logistical information and services, a secure environment for payment and settlement and a directory listing of products, services, jobs, manufacturers, consultants, architects, contractors, suppliers, trade associations and government regulatory bodies.
For additional information, please contact:
Mr Luke Long
President
MnEportal.com Sdn Bhd
Tel: (603) 724-0188
e-mail: luke@mneportal.com
Ms Carolyn Lim
Marketing manager
sttarfire.com (M) Sdn Bhd
Tel: (603) 2161-2229
e-mail: clim@sttarfire.com
Ms Monica Ng
Marketing communications consultant
Sun Microsystems Malaysia Sdn Bhd
Tel: (603) 2164 9988
e-mail: monica.ng@malaysia.sun.com |
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