Andreessen Unveils Loudcloud Services

PALM SPRINGS, CALIF. (02/07/2000) - Loudcloud Inc. took the wraps off its electronic commerce outsourcing services strategy today, as Chairman and Co-founder Marc Andreessen fielded questions at several briefings here at the Demo industry conference.

Loudcloud is offering infrastructure outsourcing services for high-growth Internet businesses, according to Andreessen, who spoke at a briefing for reporters here at Demo, as well as on a teleconference call for media not present at the conference.

Andreessen positioned Loudcloud as a cross between a traditional data center outsourcing service provider, and application service providers, which offer application hosting services.

Loudcloud intends to furnish a range of services to get established brick-and-mortar companies as well as well-funded Internet startups up and running on the Internet, in half the time that it would normally take to create an electronic commerce infrastructure, Andreessen said.

The services are not for small businesses, Andreessen noted. While declining to peg a firm number for the company's services, he indicated that they would be priced in the range of tens of thousands of dollars per month.

Loudcloud is based in Silicon Valley, which should appeal to companies that are based elsewhere, but nevertheless want to make inroads into Web-based business, Andreessen noted.

"We're in Sunnyvale so you don't have to be," Andreessen said.

Loudcloud today also announced that Acteva Inc. -- which bills itself as a "marketplace for activities," where activity organizers and participants meet to conduct business -- will be the first Internet company to pilot Loudcloud's Smart Cloud services.

Before cofounding Loudcloud, Andreessen founded Netscape Communications Corp., bought in 1998 by America Online Inc.

Loudcloud is located in Sunnyvale, California, and can be reached at +1-408-744-7379 or http://www.loudcloud.com/.

More about: Acteva, America Online, Loudcloud, Netscape Communications Corp, PALM SPRINGS

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