ModaCAD Inc. signed an
agreement with EarthLink Network Inc. to jointly develop back-end Internet services for ModaCAD’s emerging e-commerce initiative.
The companies said they will work together to jointly provide access to
ModaCAD’s first e-business content manager, which is being developed to bring
numerous fashion retailers and manufacturers together at one Web site by
utilizing ModaCAD’s core rendering and content management technologies.
Intel Corp. and InformixSoftware Inc. have already signed on for the e-
business project. Financial terms of the deals have not been disclosed.
Joyce Freedman, chief executive officer of ModaCAD said, “ModaCAD and
EarthLink are synergistic companies with complementary technologies that will
aid in our mutual efforts to exponentially capture e-commerce opportunities
via the Internet.”
EarthLink’s primary responsibility will be to provide sufficient bandwidth to
assure push technology downloads within acceptable data transmission times.
EarthLink has also granted to ModaCAD an unlimited worldwide license to
distribute the EarthLink Network TotalAccess starter kit. Potential users of
ModaCAD e-business product without an Internet Service Provider will be
offered free Internet connectivity for a 30-day trial period.
“ModaCAD has come up with a really innovative product that uses the Internet
in an interesting way,” said Julie Mantis, vice president of sales at
EarthLink Network. “Since the project is reliant on the Internet to generate
revenue, it says a lot that ModaCAD chose EarthLink as their partner to
provide Internet access.”
ModaCAD’s core rendering and content management technologies enable computers
to create photo-realistic synthetic 3D images.
