CERN sells management system to UK's Transacsys

July 24, 2001 —

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has sold its Internal Transaction Management system to U.K.-based Transacsys PLC for 1 million Swiss francs (US$579,710), the companies announced today.

The Web-based workflow technology, which will be renamed "Permissioning" by Transacsys, allows companies to build a "permission" process for users to gain quick authorization for online tasks. It also allows the organization using the program to design and control the various processes without a lot of administrative interference, CERN and Transacsys said in a statement.

CERN, based in Switzerland, is best known as the organization that sponsored the work of Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau. The two men are generally credited as leading the effort to write the underlying protocols -- including HTTP, or hypertext transfer protocol -- for what later came to be known as the World Wide Web in the late 1980s.

Transacsys, an internal transaction management company, also announced Tuesday it is partnering with Oracle Corp. to jointly market the Permissioning software to organizations both public and private, CERN and Transacsys said.

Two years ago, the permission software was rewritten by CERN programmers in Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) to run on Oracle databases, up to and including Oracle 9i, CERN and Transacsys said.

CERN will continue to use the program for free, as can other particle physics laboratories associated with CERN. Furthermore, as part of its agreement with Transacsys, CERN will continue to work on developing the program in partnership Transacsys as part of a long term Joint Steering Group, CERN and Transacsys said.

CERN, in Geneva, can be contacted at +41-22-76-74101, or online at http://public.web.cern.ch/. Transacsys, in Buckinghamshire, U.K., can be reached online at http://www.transacsys.com. Oracle Corp., based in Redwood Shores, California, can be reached at +1-650-506-7000 or at http://www.oracle.com/.

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