Cobalt, a leading Internet application development firm, is featured in the January 2003 edition of .NET Magazine, an industry publication devoted to Microsoft's .NET technology platform. The case study, which highlights the company's work on the groundbreaking online presence for Washington, D.C.'s premiere tennis event, the Legg Mason Tennis Classic, focused on Cobalt's use of standard and emerging Microsoft technologies to deliver a highly scalable, flexible, and affordable solution to the tournament's demanding fans throughout the world.
Developed on Microsoft's .NET platform, the tournament Web site, www.leggmasontennisclassic.com, enables vital, real-time communication and interaction between spectators, media outlets, volunteers and the community-at-large. The site incorporates additional functionality through Microsoft's Content Management Server to empower non-technical tournament staff to maintain scores, match results, spectator announcements, and media relations with limited knowledge of HTML or Web programming languages.
"We are proud to have our solution for the Legg Mason Tennis Classic featured in such a widely read publication as .Net Magazine. Having employed the virtues of .NET, Cobalt was able to quickly deploy a sophisticated and user-friendly solution once reserved only for clients with the most significant IT budgets," commented Russell Inman, Cobalt's President and CEO. "With this .NET solution, our experienced development team was able to offer a significant performance increase to the site without sacrificing the user experience," added John Jordan, a Senior Application Developer at Cobalt and technical lead on the project.
The site received 15 million hits, over one million impressions, and approximately 150,000 unique page views during the week of the tournament. For more information on Cobalt's unique .NET solution for the Legg Mason Tennis Classic, please feel free to view the January 2003 .NET Magazine article in it's entirety on newsstands and on the Web at www.thedotnetmag.com.
About Cobalt
Cobalt (www.cobalt.net) is an Alexandria-based software development firm focused on work with associations, non-profits, certification boards and mid-sized corporate clients. Founded in 1996, Cobalt has worked with over 100 customers to help drive revenue, increase internal efficiency and offer value-added services through customized, database-driven web sites, software applications, systems integration and web site content management solutions.
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