Arguably SA's most well-known virtual trading place, bidorbuy.co.za has since its inception two-and-a-half years ago, firmly relied on Sun Microsystems to power its daily bidding, buying and selling activities.
Says Andy Higgins, managing director of bidorbuy South Africa: "As we are open for trade 24x7 and exposed to high volume traffic, it's imperative that bidorbuy.co.za stays online.
"Sun Microsystems has enabled us to do just that and has never let us down." Ranked as one of the top 10 most frequented SA Web sites, hosting for bidorbuy.co.za is done in America, powered by Sun's E450 workgroup servers and Ultra 2 workstation technology." Higgins points out that although the hosting is in the US, developments for current and future technology improvements to bidorbuy.co.za and bidorbuy Australia are done locally.
"Together with Sun in SA we are constantly improving the performance and reliability of our Web site and will soon host bidorbuy.co.za locally on Sun technology."
As the auction process at bidorbuy.co.za is a well-oiled system, Sun once again plays in important role in this, offering a redundant and reliable technology, decreasing the possibility of downtime.
Higgins believes Sun's experience in the financial services industry clearly sets it apart from its competitors. "Sun offers robust technologies, which serves as the ideal platform to run our Oracle solutions on," he explains.
Globally, bidorbuy is a virtual marketplace that brings over a million worldwide buyers and sellers together and allows them to buy and sell virtually anything in an easy-to-use auction format, using the Internet.
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