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FAQs on the Sale of ShopSite
Provo, Utah, June 29, 2001 -- ShopSite has been purchased by ShopSite Inc., a new company owned and staffed by the people who originally created ShopSite. Here are some questions and answers regarding the sale.
Q: Why was ShopSite sold?
A: Since Open Market's merger with Future Tense, the company's focus has changed from e-commerce to content management aimed at large Fortune 1000 companies. As part of that change in focus, it no longer made sense for Open Market to keep the ShopSite product line, which is aimed at small- to medium-sized merchants.
Q: How does the sale affect the product line?
A: Short-term there is no effect. The ShopSite team has been busy enhancing the product for the next release which will be out later this year. Longer-term it allows the team to focus even more on delivering the features our merchants want as well as striking partnerships in the interests of our merchants.
Q: Is support affected?
A: No, the ShopSite team will continue to support our partners. We will continue to maintain the knowledgebase, newsgroup, and list server for our partners and users. We will also soon be adding direct support options for any end-users that are no longer hosted at a ShopSite partner.
Q: Will the price of ShopSite change?
A: ShopSite is sold by our partners and they set the price. Our current pricing to our partners remains in effect.
Q: Is it really true that the original ShopSite team is running ShopSite, Inc.?
A: Yes, the people that developed ShopSite and have been coding, supporting, testing, and selling ShopSite under Open Market are now owners of ShopSite, Inc. This includes many of the original team that came to Open Market when they purchased ShopSite three years ago from ICentral, Inc.
Q: So this is a good thing?
A: Yes, definitely! This is great news for ShopSite merchants, partners, and employees!
About ShopSite
ShopSite is an easy-to-use online store creation system that allows merchants to build and maintain catalogs of products or services to sell over the Internet. ShopSite is specifically designed to make setting up and maintaining a commerce Web site simple, with timesaving features for administrators and designers alike.
Merchants can use ShopSite to commerce-enable an existing site instantly, or use the ShopSite store setup wizard and its intuitive, browser-based interface to build a new site as little as 15 minutes.
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