Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer, a growers' cooperative in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands, runs the largest horticultural auction in the world. Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer's complex is the world's biggest indoor commercial facility. The stadium-sized arena dwarfs the nearby caf where, in 1911, a group of growers founded Bloemenveiling to pare down the role of middlemen. FlowerAccess is the first application of an enterprise-wide trading infrastructure that we are building based on Microsoft Windows NT software and Compaq servers. Our Compaq team helped us to turn growers and buyers into enthused participants in electronic commerce.
Few companies can do both.
But our local Compaq office has provided turnkey electronic-commerce solutions to large enterprises, including the national telecom of the Netherlands. By understanding our business very well, the Compaq solution architects were able to rapidly design a sound architecture and a working prototype that we then adapted with input from growers and buyers. Enterprise-strength Microsoft SQL Server Solution Compaq, the only company endorsed by Microsoft as Worldwide Prime Integrator of Windows NT, planned, designed, and implemented the Microsoft Windows NT intranet and electronic commerce solution, and now provides system maintenance and support. The server environment configured and installed by Compaq Services comprises a Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 database, Microsoft Site Server 3.0 and Microsoft Site Server Commerce Edition software, and Firewall One from Check Point Software Technologies for data and transaction security. And the close alliance of Compaq and Microsoft is a major advantage for us.