BiPtron, activates its new web application service created by former Disney Online Software V.P. Art Holland, delivering risk free open source applications addressing core functional business needs.

BiPtrons web application service provides business software customers with great open source software applications at minimal cost and a level playing field between consumer and vendor. Customers get software applications with functionality comparable to Microsofts infrastructure technologies without the cost and risk associated with forced upgrades, license audits, etc.

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CONTACT:
Art Holland
BiPtron
Voice: 310-849-1234
Fax: 928-569-5000
E-mail: art@biptron.com
Web: www.biptron.com
AIM: biptron

BiPtron activates web application service featuring risk free open source software

Los Angeles, CA, Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - Today, BiPtron a new web application service created by former Disney Online Software V.P. Art Holland, has activated its service featuring a core set of business applications including web site construction/content management, e-commerce, groupware and blogging that are based completely on GPL licensed, open source software. Holland says: The abundance of robust open source software applications combined with the negligible cost and risk associated with the GPL software license presents a fantastic opportunity for business software consumers to gain control of their technological destiny while significantly dropping their software costs"

BiPtron has pulled together the best free, open source software applications and made them easily and inexpensively available to customers on either a hosted or host it yourself basis. These widely used and well supported applications compete effectively in capabilities with comparable Microsoft offerings (see http://www.biptron.com for details) in core business categories. Unique advantages provided by the GPL software license are that the software is free to use in perpetuity while also being free from the kinds of abuses frequently perpetrated by proprietary software companies on their customers, including: vendor lock-in, forced upgrades and the burden of license management (often leading to expensive end-user license audits and litigation).

We are simply riding the powerful trend of free, open source software becoming the dominant approach for all infrastructure applications." said Holland. We are seeing a kind of an inverse pyramid effect where the first critical piece of the Internet, the TCP/IP protocol was made freely available. Building on this foundation were operating systems (including Linux) and communications (Apache, Sendmail, IMAP, POP), application server (PHP/Perl) and database infrastructure (MySQL), all becoming dominant in their respective areas as well. Now we are seeing the same thing happen at the application layer. Popular applications supported by BiPtron including phpWebSite, osCommerce, PHProjekt and others bear the unmistakable qualities of free, open source software destined for ubiquity: namely, they are tools which have broad applicability, are supported by large communities of users and developers and are extremely interoperable (ie: zero lock-in). It has simply become too risky to run any business on software that is both expensive and subject to the whim of a vendor when there are now great alternatives that finally level the software playing field" remarked Holland.

For additional information, please contact:
Art Holland
BiPtron
Voice: 310-849-1234
Fax: 928-569-5000
E-mail: art@biptron.com
Web: www.biptron.com
AIM: biptron

BiPtrons web application service provides business software customers with great open source software applications at minimal cost and a level playing field between consumer and vendor. Customers get software applications with functionality comparable to Microsofts infrastructure technologies without the cost and risk associated with forced upgrades, license audits, etc.

BiPtron is a wholly owned subsidiary of Splarky Communications Corporation, a software consultancy started by Art Holland in 1998.

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