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Subject: PizzaNet – the killer app
From: David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 03:35:04 -0400
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:
Rob Doughty Elisheva Steiner
Pizza Hut, Inc. The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
TEL: 316/681-9602 TEL: 408/427-7252
E-Mail: elis@sco.com
Patti Fortuna
Rourke & Company
TEL: 408/453-9194
E-Mail: pfortuna@rourke.com
SCO AND PIZZA HUT ANNOUNCE PILOT PROGRAM
FOR PIZZA DELIVERY ON THE INTERNET
"PizzaNet'' Program Enables Computer Users
to Electronically Order Deliveries
WICHITA, KS AND SANTA CRUZ, CA, SCO FORUM94 (August 22, 1994) –
(NASDAQ:SCOC) In a revolutionary spin on business use of the
Information Superhighway, The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. (SCO)
and Pizza Hut, Inc. today announced "PizzaNet," a pilot program
that enables computer users, for the first time, to
electronically order pizza delivery from their local Pizza Hut
restaurant via the worldwide Internet.
Pizza Hut will launch the PizzaNet pilot in the Santa Cruz area
on August 22 and use it to study the feasibility of expanding the
program to other cities in the U.S. and around the world.
Technology for the pilot program includes the SCO Global Access
product, an integrated Internet business server solution. The SCO
Global Access incorporates advanced NCSA Mosaic software for
browsing the Internet, and the custom "PizzaNet" application
software developed by SCO's Professional Services organization.
"The worldwide Internet, along with SCO Global Access software,
present us with exciting new opportunities to offer home delivery
services to our customers," said Jon Payne, Pizza Hut MIS
Director of POS Development. "The PizzaNet pilot will help us
study the technical feasibility and gauge customer response to
these new services, while taking an important step toward
integrating our restaurants with the Information Highway."
To participate in the PizzaNet Pilot, customers in the Santa Cruz
area need computers with Internet access and any version of
Mosaic, such as Windows, Mac, or UNIX. Customers use the
Internet's World Wide Web to access the centralized PizzaNet
server at Pizza Hut Headquarters in Wichita, Kansas. This 486
system runs SCO Open Server and SCO Global Access software, using
the Mosaic and Hypertext Transfer Protocol to present customers
with a customized menu page for ordering pizza deliveries. Mosaic
is widely used at many technology companies, government agencies,
and universities. It is rapidly being adopted by many business
and home users in response to the continuing availability of new
and innovative business and information services.
The customer uses the menu pages to enter name, address, and
phone information, along with orders for pizza and beverages. The
order is then transmitted via the Internet back to Wichita, and
then relayed via modem and conventional phone lines to the SCO
Open Server system at the customer's nearest Pizza Hut
restaurant. The local restaurant can then telephone first-time
users to verify orders. All money changes hand at the point of
delivery.
"Pizza Hut already runs home delivery applications on SCO Open
Server at over 1,000 restaurants, and that makes it relatively
easy to integrate this new application into their operations for
the pilot," said Doug Michels, SCO's Executive Vice President and
Chief Technical Officer. "The primary challenge was to create a
graphical menu page that makes it easy and convenient for
customers to order pizza. The Mosaic component of the SCO Global
Access product provided the
The First Thing That Ever Sold Online Was Pizza
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