Leading Consumer Investment Site, Motley Fool, Chooses UUNET for Web Hosting
FAIRFAX, VA. (February 24, 1997) --
UUNET Technologies, Inc., the largest provider of Internet services
in the world and a subsidiary of WorldCom, Inc. (NASDAQ:WCOM), today
announced that it is now hosting The Motley Fool, Inc.'s
enormously popular web site. The iconoclastic Motley Fool is an
online education service that offers tools for the lay investor,
eschewing the institutional formality of the big Wall Street
brokerage houses. It made its debut on America Online in 1994, and in
less than a year became the most consulted financial forum in the
online world. Readership of The Motley Fool web site, launched in
1996, is growing exponentially, and to meet their demands for
bandwidth and server performance, The Fool turned to UUNET.
"We wanted a good home for our Web site and we talked to the
top Internet Service Providers in the market," said Dwight
Gibbs, Chief Motley Fool Techie. " UUNET was the most capable,
reliable and helpful. They know their business, they talk straight,
and they get the job done."
The Motley Fool web site will go live on February 24th , and will
be hosted using Microsoft NT server technology. It will include new
web-based message boards. Future plans include the addition of
real-time chat and an on-line store featuring "Foolmart"
merchandise.
"We're very pleased to be hosting The Motley Fool web
site," said Dave Foster, general manager of UUNET's Web
Services Business. "They've been a real leader in using the
on-line medium to create an effective business model. We expect that
the coupling of Motley Fool's marketing creativity with
UUNET's web technology will allow them to leap even further ahead
in content and innovation."
UUNET's web hosting service reduces the complexity and cost of
implementing and supporting a high-performance web site. It is a
comprehensive solution including hardware, software, high-speed
Internet connectivity, ongoing management and support, and reporting.
Web sites hosted at UUNET's computer facilities are directly
connected to UUNET's Internet backbone, which means high
performance and greater reliability. UUNET's current web hosting
customers include many of the best-known sites on the web.
Headquartered in Fairfax, Va., UUNET Technologies, Inc. is the
world's largest provider of Internet services, offering a
comprehensive range of access options, World Wide Web hosting
services, security products and consulting services to businesses,
professionals, and on-line service providers. The company's
network is comprised of POPs throughout the United States and in
Canada, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, as well as connections to
Internet service providers around the world. Founded in 1987, UUNET
is recognized as the first commercial Internet service provider and
is a subsidiary of WorldCom Inc. UUNET's World Wide Web address
is
http://www.uu.net
.
WorldCom is a global business telecommunications company.
Operating in more than 50 countries, the company is a premier
provider of facilities-based and fully integrated local, long
distance, international and Internet services. WorldCom's World
Wide Web address is: http://www.wcom.com. The common and depositary
shares of WorldCom trade on the Nasdaq National Market (U.S.) under
the symbol WCOM and WCOMP, respectively.
