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         FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
         
         
           
         
         ACTRA UNVEILS E-COMMERCE APPLICATION SOLUTION 
          
         
            
          
         
         
            - Actra, a joint venture between GE Information
            Services and Netscape Communications Corporation,
            announced yesterday the availability of Actra
            CrossCommerce, a cross platform family of Internet
            commerce applications that focus on the external business
            processes of buying, selling and merchandising over the
            Internet. Actra CrossCommerce consists of five products:
            ECXpert, OrderXpert Seller, OrderXpert Buyer,
            MerchantXpert and PublishingXpert. Actra CrossCommerce is
            built from the ground up on Internet standards that
            delivers total solutions to both the business-to-business
            and business-to-consumer markets, according to the
            company. Actra CrossCommerce also addresses businesses
            that provide Internet retailing and information
            publishing services in a multi-hosting model.
            
            
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 -  Fully object-oriented using Common Object
            Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Actra CrossCommerce
            is based on open, interoperable Internetstandards
            including Internet Inter-ORB protocol (IIOP), S/MIME,
            SSL, EDIINT, Java and leverages Netscape's CrossWare
            technology. The Actra CrossCommerce Java-based interface
            enables any user, anywhere, to manage their own
            activities based on access privileges, while preserving
            control, security and audit of enterprise assets.
            
            
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- Actra CrossCommerce products are individually priced
            based on a per processor pricing model.
         
     
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