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Infrastructure Survey: Small 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
Accesspoint Corp. (714) 781-2288 100+ 2,500 Intergraph (NT 4.0), SQL Server clustered using Webscale MS IIS4.0 and SQL Server proprietary ASP, SQL, Java, Javascript, C, C++, Visual Basic HTML, ASP, Javascript Proprietary proprietary proprietary SSL, PGP yes no no no no no
Adventure Web Productions (410) 788-7007 74 150 Sun Sparc Sun Microsystems VeriSign CGI, Java, Perl, HTML Yahoo VeriSign VeriSign PGP yes no no yes no no
Affordable Virtual Servers 61-2-4283-1582 500+ 20 Pentium II 333-Unix/Windows NT N/A Kool Kat (free single page cart) Java, CGI, Perl, CORBA, C++, TCL, python HTML N/A N/A N/A N/A no no no no no no
AIS Network Corp. (847)882-0493 20 N/A NT IIS Site Server NT IIS Site Server 3.0 ASP SQL HTML, ASP, SQL SQL queries and Index server Site Server Proxy& Cisco SSL, PGP no no no no no no
Alpine Development (801) 358-0890 79 2 Pentium II/ BSDI Unix Apache, Miva Apache/Miva Miva, CGI (C++) HTML, proprietary Custom Open Market MS Proxy Server/ Router PGP no no no no no no
American Data Technology (919) 544-4101 700+ 50/100 Unix and NT Apache and IIS 4.0 Cart 32, CyberCash, Minivend, Perlshop CGI, ASP HTML built into product and Cold Fusion N/A Unix based SSL and PGP yes yes yes yes no PGP
AnaServe (A Concentric Network Co.) (949) 250-7262 2,000 20 Unix-Solaris or BSDI Sun Solaris servers ShopSite by OpenMarket and INEX CGI,Perl,Sybase,Microsoft Commerce Server,Microsoft Sl Server HTML N/A N/A N/A SSL, PGP yes yes yes yes yes no
Cart32 (613) 721-6097 20+ 15 Pentium II/BSDI Unix Pentium ll 350, OS-Windows NT Webserver-IIS 4.0 N/A HTML N/A N/A Checkpoint SSL, Thawte/VeriSign, PGP no yes no no no no
Data Matrix (610) 701-5814 4 20 Sun and generic running Solaris/Linux Apache DocumentMaster CGI, Perl, C++ HTML DocumentMaster N/A Raptor SSL, PGP no no no no no no
Extreme Web (410) 721-1372 50 5 Intel Pentium II w/NT Server 4.0 N/A custom ASP HTML Add-Web N/A Thawte Consulting N/A no no no no no 126-bit
Forman Interactive (212) 627-4988 1005 25 N/A Linux, Unix N/A VBI, Perl HTML Excite N/A N/A PGP yes yes yes yes yes no
Hewitt Code (317) 577-8937 10 35 Mac OS 8.1 WebTen (Apache for Mac) HCW-Cart CGI, C++, Perl HTML HCW-cart N/A hardware router PGP yes yes no no no no
iland Internet Solutions (713) 610-3701 20 50 Windows NT Microsoft Internet Information Server Custom Built, StoreFront ASP HTML, Java, custom controls custom custom N/A SSL3.0 yes yes yes yes yes no
InfoDial (818) 316-0367 100+ N/A Windows NT IIS Cashier 3D N/A HTML Microsoft Cashier 3D N/A SSL yes yes no no no no
International Computer (613) 394-6799 10 100 Dual Intel P2-300MHz; NT Server 4.0, IIS4, Cold Fusion 3.0 N/A Cold Fusion or ASP Cold Fusion or ASP HTML JavaScript N/A N/A N/A N/A yes no no no no no
Netcetera 01-6-2461-2948 100 50 Compaq Servers and NT IIS4 Net-Store E-commerce Suite COM, ASP HTML proprietary N/A N/A VeriSign, SSL yes no yes no no no
Netcom Online Comm. Services (408) 881-2000 N/A 50 Pentium running Linux Apache Open Market ShopSite Software N/A N/A Proprietary proprietary proprietary proprietary N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
OneHost (888) 846-7143 100 N/A Sun servers running Solaris OS Apache Stronghold OneHost custom shopping cart program Perl HTML htdig N/A Sun Solstice Firewall PGP yes yes yes yes yes no
PairNet N/A 36 50-75 Cyrix M2-300 with NT4 Server and WebSite Pro 2.3.5 iMerchant iMerchant ISAPI HTML Excite for Web Servers N/A N/A N/A yes yes no no no 40, 128-bit certs
PrimeConsult (703) 975-0391 24 20,000 Intel Pentium/Pentium ll, Linux Apache Apache/Stronghold Perl, PHP3 HTML MySQL, Proprietary Perl Based N/A N/A SSL, PGP yes yes no no no no
Pro3Net (617) 376-2448 150 50 Unix/IBM 4 Gig 128 MB CPUs Unix (Netscape Enterprise); NT (MS Site Server) PRO#.NET Web Store Perl Perl Web Store N/A N/A yes no no no no no no
Sage Networks (617) 374-4700 850 50-100 Compaq/BSDI and NT or Sun Solaris Netscape Enterprise, Apache, or IIS 4.0 Mercantec, Open Market, Multiactive, Miva (KoolCat); Ibill, AVN Java Perl, SQL database HTML, ASP, JDK 1.2, JDBC, MS Frontpage, Cold Fusion Submit It, Register It, Excite N/A Checkpoint's Firewall and Cisco's PIX SSL 3.0, SET yes yes yes yes yes N/A
SDTek Web Services (808) 629-3760 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 N/A N/A
Speedsoft.com (817) 419-0612 20 50 Pentium servers, Unix BSDI OS Apache Custom Built, StoreFront Perl only HTML custom N/A N/A VeriSign yes yes yes yes yes N/A
Technology Horizons (413) 253-7700 25 400 Solaris 2.6 on Sparc Apache webserver plus Minivend plus database Minivend CGI/Perl HTML N/A N/A N/A N/A yes yes yes no no no
The Dover Group (818) 407-4640 152 25 Pentium, Linux Apache Mercantec's SoftCart CGI, Perl, Java HTML Excite N/A N/A VeriSign yes yes no no no no
The Software Group (805) 529-1919 20 5 Intel Unix Apache N/A CGI-Perl HTML N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
The WWW Service Provider (303) 426-6413 200+ 20-30 PII servers running NT Internet Information Server 4.0 Mercantec's Softcart Perl, CGI, Java, ASP HTML, ASP Excite, Snap.com IIS4, Siteserver Commerce N/A Thawte, SSL yes no no no no no
Word.Net Communications (501) 985-7503 300 10 Pentium Pro/BSDI Unix Apache SSL CGI, Perl HTML Excite Filemaker Pro Firewall+ N/A yes yes yes yes yes yes
Wythe Web Works (757) 928-0336 26 40 Sun Ultra Sparc Enterprise Servers/Solaris Apache SSL N/A Perl, CGI N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A yes yes no no no no

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