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.