EDIT opens College StoreFront solution, forms LLC

Easy Does It Technologies (EDIT, 888.858.EDIT) has released the College StoreFront (CSF), an HP e3000 application in combination with Windows NT servers running Allaire’s Cold Fusion. To create CSF, the company bought the rights to an application it re-developed and managed for The Campus Bookstore at Queen’s University. The approach integrates Web-based applications with practically any back-end system, including non-MPE/iX-based systems.

“Queen’s has twice been featured by Hewlett-Packard as a customer success story due to their use of technology to solve business problems,” said EDIT founder Michael Gueterman. “Now we can offer some of that to other college and university bookstores as well.”

The application is being offered for $10,000 including source code. EDIT, which has developed a service and consulting business specializing in the HP e3000, will be concentrating on integration to place CSF. The application’s next major release during the first quarter of 2001 will include the ability to use a localized data store, providing a turnkey solution for those stores that don’t want to directly integrate with their existing back-end solution. CSF has also been installed at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, and is under evaluation by several additional bookstores.

“We will be integrating CSF with a customer’s existing back-end systems, but the customer is free to do the personalization themselves if they are so inclined,” Gueterman said.

EDIT, which was formed in 1995 and is a Minisoft VAR and an Allaire Alliance Partner, has expanded to become a Limited Liability Company. Consultant Adam Dorritie has become a full partner, and the LLC is adding an office in Henderson, Nev. which Dorritie will oversee. The company is also expanding its existing office in Rolla, Mo., which will provide the space necessary for some additional staff in the future. The company continues to provide HP e3000 consulting on Internet interoperability, systems management and security, and develops custom Web-based applications utilizing the Cold Fusion application server. EDIT is a member of the HP 3000 Internet Consultants Program.

EDIT also proudly supports the www.sambaix.com Web site, which provides Samba/iX software and documentation to the HP e3000 community. EDIT also hosts the gateway functions between the 3000-L mailing list and the comp.sys.hp.mpe newsgroup.