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By Carolyn Duffy Marsan 04/23/01
CoreExpress is
the best-known - and best-funded - of a group of upstart service providers
trying to make the Internet stable and secure enough to support critical
business applications.
CoreExpress' claims to fame for its extranet
service are performance guarantees, network visibility and security across
multiple ISPs. The company's goal is to combine the flexibility,
scalability and reach of the Internet with the performance and reliability of a
private network.
It is pursuing companies with large supply-chain
networks, such as healthcare providers and manufacturers, as early customers
for the CoreExpress service, which became generally available across the U.S.
last month.
Company officials say they have plenty of money to build
out the service quickly, having raised an eye-popping $573 million in cash and
credit from key suppliers.
Internally, the major challenge for the CoreExpress
management team is bridging the gap between the company's 200 employees
in St. Louis and its 150 employees in northern Virginia; the company maintains
dual headquarters in these cities. Toward that end, last fall the company
reserved box seats at a Monday night football game between the Washington
Redskins and the St. Louis Rams. The most fanatic fans at each location got to
attend the game.
CoreExpress The name: |
Descriptive of the company's service,
which provides an Internet core for expressing - or speeding up - the delivery
of data.
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