Los Angeles, Calif. -- AMULET Consulting is pleased to announce its selection by ASUCLA (Associated Students of UCLA) to provide Microsoft SQL Server database design and back-office software development services for the expansion of the UCLA Store electronic commerce Web site.

The enhanced site, currently operating at www.uclastore.ucla.edu, will contain over 1.5 million books in print accessible through a sophisticated, state-of-the-art searching and browsing mechanism based around the Microsoft Merchant Server commerce product. The site will be similar in nature to the famed Amazon site, but tailored for the educational marketplace. UCLA was selected by Microsoft to be a high-profile user and beta tester Merchant Server early on in the product's development. AMULET is proud to be associated with both UCLA and Microsoft in building a commerce site of such magnitude.

The UCLA Store site project will gain benefit from AMULET's specialty of building corporate Internet and Intranet applications that include database connectivity components. In this pursuit, AMULET's active-content, database enabled sites focus on the Intel/Windows NT 4.0 Web server hardware/software platform using contemporary development tools including Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP), Internet Information Server (IIS) 3.0, SQL Server 6.5, ActiveX, ODBC 3.0, Java, JDBC, JavaScript/JScript, and VBScript, for the Netscape Navigator 3.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 browsers. The company also provides Web server hosting and database administration services for active content corporate sites.