The company's PictureQuest library now contains over 400,000 publicly available digital images, and is the trusted source of high quality photographic materials for organizations such as advertising agencies, designers, schools, and government institutions, as well as individuals. A companion service called Media Hosting Service offers electronic lookup and distribution of private image stores to many household name television channels, movie studios, and other companies. Initially PNI provided its images over the Internet using essentially a bulletin board service, but very soon management saw the potential benefits of hosting its service on the world wide web. In 1995, PNI implemented sophisticated web-based image management software that lets customers access online photo libraries for needed pictures. This image management software, accompanied by a patented natural language search engine, grew to become the basis for today's PictureQuest and Media Hosting Service.
Customers can now perform the entire transaction online lookup, licensing, and taking delivery.
Back to Top Sun - the obvious choice for performance, availability, and scalability Sun was the obvious choice to fulfill PNI's development and production needs. Customers who access a site like ours have little patience for slow response and even less tolerance for outright failures. Furthermore, we could see the explosion coming in using the Internet for hosting and transacting generally. Therefore we had to be able to count on continued high performance and reliability even after orders of magnitude growth in demand. That's what scalability is all about, and that's where Sun is unequaled.