The business has developed scaleable modular software that enables it to
publish and manage content across its network. The 999Network is made up of
multiple site types so the software must be able to publish and maintain multiple
document and data types with complex inter-relationships. In addition, the
network has the potential to extend over hundreds of thousands of websites
so the software has been designed to cope with this enormous scale.
The software platform has been developed to fulfil the following objectives:
• Speed and efficiency
• Flexibility
• Ease of use
• Scalability
• Low Cost
The development platform is based on Open Source, free software. Apache,
PHP and MySQL are the main technologies used.