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June 15, 2000
MEDIAPOLIS CREATES WEB MERGER MAGIC
NEW YORK CITY -- As consolidation fever sweeps the Internet, Silicon Alley-based Mediapolis reports that their exclusive Iowa(tm) software suite delivers fast and efficient online brand integration. CanDo.com (www.cando.com), which recently merged with SpineWire.com, utilized Iowa(tm) to create one Web resource serving more than 750 million people with disabilities, their family and friends. CanDo.com launched this month.
With Iowa(tm), Mediapolis had the software muscle needed to seamlessly integrate two brands' front and back end systems into one expanded website in record time. Integration of the sites' network, content management tools, back-end databases and an innovative user interface (designed specifically to be more accessible to people with disabilities) were combined and re-branded as CanDo.com in less than 4 weeks.
"We had to work fast to pull off the successful merger of CanDo.com with SpineWire.com, and Mediapolis' Iowa software suite made it possible," said Mark Pinney, CEO of CanDo.com. "The final result is we've strengthened our business -- which makes our investors happy, and we've improved our website -- which makes our users happy."
In addition to speeding the deployment of websites, Iowa(tm) enables CanDo.com editors to publish up-to-the-minute news and medical breakthroughs directly to the site, from anywhere in the world, using a standard Web browser. They can also change button size, button placement and other user interface elements with no HTML or programming experience. Further, Iowa(tm) integrates the open source power of Apache and PERL with exclusive Iowa(tm) feature modules making the site easy to maintain and completely scaleable without any architectural limitations.
"We've designed Iowa to handle the type of challenge that CanDo.com presented," said Mediapolis principal Carl Pritzkat. "We understand that in the real world of operating websites you need tools that are flexible enough to take you where the market demands, even when that means integrating entirely different sites and doubling traffic in four weeks."
Mediapolis (www.mediapolis.com ) creates technology that simplifies the production of high profile, high performance websites. Iowa(tm) by Mediapolis combines customized open code software with industry-standard hardware to create tools and feature modules easily deployed for any project. Since 1994, Mediapolis has used the Iowa(tm) software suite to build more than 100 sites for clients ranging from Fortune 50s to bootstrap startups.
CanDo.com is a centralized online resource and web destination dedicated to delivering hard-to-find and relevant information that inspires greater independence and better daily living for people with disabilities and their support circles. A privately held company, CanDo.com is based in Mountain View, California.
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