Infrastructure Survey: Mid-Tier Merchant Services
December 15, 1998
Service provider
Telephone
Number of sites hosted
Average catalog entries/site
Platform
Web server
Commerce software
Frameworks
Client framework
Search engine product
Business-to business software
Firewall product
Security, encryption products
SSL2 support
SSL3
64-bit encryption
32-bit encryption
16 bit encryption
Other encryption
Bitwise Software International
(888) 378-4678
319
375
NT server
Web Site Pro
custom
IHTML
HTML
N/A
N/A
N/A
SSL 2.0 and 3.0
yes
yes
yes
no
no
128 bit
BX.Com
(781) 444-4169
52
25
UNIX, Sun, and NT
Apache
custom
CGI, Perl, Java
HTML
Excite, Custom
custom, Open Market
N/A
PGP, VeriSign, Security Dynamics
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
128 bit
Dotson Consulting
(606) 231-7775
10
15
NT, PII 400's 256 M RAM
NT
proprietary
Cold Fusion
HTML and CFML
database search
N/A
N/A
VeriSign
no
no
no
no
no
no
INetU
(610) 266-7441
105
150
FreeBSD, Microsoft IIS4.0 for NT
Stronghold SSL/Apache for Unix/FreeBDS, IIS 4.0 for NT
Quick Commerce from INetU
PERL, CGI, C++
HTML, Java, JavaScript
Quick commerce
Quick Commerce from INetU; IBM Net.Commerce
N/A
N/A
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
Interland
(404) 586-9999
10,000
1-10,000
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/a
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Radka Media
(718) 361-6243
350
500
Unix
BSD
Mercantec, iCat, proprietary
CGI and PERL
HTML
Excite
N/A
N/A
N/A
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
N/A
Super Servers
(770) 757-0501
500-1,000
20-50
Linux, Pentium II (some NT servers)
Apache, IIS
custom
Java, Javascript, Perl, CGI, SQL
HTML
custom
N/A
router level
N/A
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
N/A
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