Michael D. Perry, is a United States

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. He is the founder of InterCommerce Corporation. Originally a programmer and software designer, he founded Progressive Computer Services, Inc., which published utility software for the IBM PC market. The company was best known for EZ-Menu, a utility that was declared ''

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'' "Editor's Choice", '' PC Home Journal'' "Best Product", and '' Personal Computing Magazine'' H "Publisher's Pick". Perry was the principal designer and architect of the prototype online

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system for

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, an environmental database for the

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and an online hotel reservation system acquired by hotels.com. Perry founded the

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company InterCommerce Corporation, of which he is

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. The company provides advanced e-commerce and Internet technology solutions through networks in the United States, England and the Isle of Man. it handles over US$2M in online transactions a month. During the 1990s Perry developed many dot-com portal projects including Survey.net, an early online polling system, th
Virtual Order Engine
one of the earliest online shopping cart systems available on the Internet. He also registered a number of common domain names such as folk.com, nerd.com, wisdom.com, humankind.com and others. In 2000, Perry sold wisdom.com for US$475,000. At the time this was the third-highest cash sale for any domain name. Perry is currently involved in a number of projects including a new content management system and a wine-tasting porta
LaWineclub.com
He contributed a chapter to ''HTML & CGI Unleashed'', and contributed to ''The PC User's Survival Guide''. He resides in

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and was a survivor of

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. He also runs a recording studio
Wisdom Studios

References

*Aspinwall, Jim & Burke, Rory & Todd, Mike. ''PC User's Survival Guide'', (New York: M&T, 1989) *December, John & Ginsburg, Mark. ''HTML & CGI Unleashed'', (Lebanon, Indiana, U.S.A.: Macmillan Computer, 1995)

External links

Mike Perry's home page

Mike Perry media
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