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iMahal Announces Long Term Relationships with Inktomi and Critical Path
FOSTER CITY, Calif.--September 19, 2000 iMahal (www.imahal.com), the first portal dedicated to Success and Learning, announced long term relationships with Inktomi and Critical Path. iMahal, the portal for Success and Learning, stands out for its unique focus on Education and Careers. Under separate agreements announced today by iMahal, Inktomi will be the exclusive long term Web search services provider, and Critical Path will be the exclusive long term email services provider to iMahal. Discussions are already underway for iMahal to leverage other world-class services from these global leaders: infrastructure services from Inktomi and advanced messaging services from Critical Path.
Inktomi is a global leader in building scalable applications that are core to the Internet infrastructure. “The interest, care, and support from Inktomi have been extra-ordinary. This is precisely the reason why we chose Inktomi over other contenders, not to mention the potential for leveraging a variety of other world-class Inktomi services. We are excited about this relationship. Inktomi is the ideal provider for iMahal to partner with in its efforts to bring information services to the burgeoning online South-Asian community worldwide.” Said Dr. Lokesh Datta, co-founder and CEO & President of iMahal.
Critical Path is a global leader in the advanced Internet messaging technology. “There were other finalists in our selection process. The technology and service from Critical Path are world-class. With this relationship, we are well positioned to leverage a variety of other world-class messaging services that Critical Path offers. We are excited about the mutually beneficial potential of this relationship” Said Joe Judge, co-founder and COO of iMahal.
“We have a very simple but focused approach to such relationships.” Said Dr. Srikant Datar, a co-founder and Director of iMahal and Senior Associate Dean of Harvard Business School. “We want to partner with only those companies which can support our rapid expansion in the US, India, and beyond. Partnerships with Inktomi and Critical Path are just examples of things to come.”
About iMahal
iMahal, the portal for Success and Learning, stands out for its unique focus on education and careers.
iMahal offers: the largest, most comprehensive and proprietary education resource on the Web, providing coverage for the USA, Canada, UK and India; a comprehensive career development resource, including the proprietary and authoritative iMahal Jobsite Ratings; and such powerful features as up-to-the-minute news in 250+ categories, free email, interviews with successful individuals around the world, advice column on education and careers, the largest proprietary Indian directory, worldwide directory, Web search, discussion forums, and so on.
iMahal complements these services of universal appeal with another powerful dimension: that of being India-centric. Specialized targeted services, such as the largest, proprietary India-centric web directory, are offered to over 1 billion Indians around the world.
Unlike other look-alike portals, iMahal was designed from the ground up to be both beautiful and easy to use. iMahal has a rather distinguished, uncluttered look & feel - projecting an elegant blend of the East and the West. Navigation around the iMahal portal is rather impressive as well. The user is always one click away from wherever the user wants to be.
All in all, iMahal is a unique portal: for its focus, its content, its look & feel, and its navigation.
For more information visit: www.imahal.com
About Imktomi
Inktomi (Nasdaq: INKT) develops and markets scalable infrastructure software designed for ISPs, content delivery and hosting providers, Web portal and commerce sites, wireless operators and global enterprises. Inktomi's customer and strategic partner base includes such leading companies as America Online, British Telecommunications, Excite@Home, Intel, iWon.com, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Nokia, RealNetworks, Sun Microsystems, and Yahoo! The company has offices in North America, Asia and Europe. For more information visit www.inktomi.com.
About Critical Path
Critical Path, Inc. (Nasdaq: CPTH) is the dominant global provider of complete end-to-end Internet messaging and collaboration solutions for wireless, Internet-centric, telecommunication and corporate businesses. Through its allsourcing strategy, Critical Path is the only advanced messaging provider to offer businesses the flexibility to outsource, midsource, or insource all or part of their messaging and collaboration applications. More information on Critical Path can be found at www.cp.net.
CONTACT:
Joe Judge
650/357-0000
communications@imahal.com
http://www.imahal.com
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