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Mike Budowski and his wife, Susan, run a Web-based company that dreams are made of. OurBeginning.com, an Orlando, Florida, firm that sells wedding stationery, took the Budowskis only seven weeks to launch and is looking at projected sales of $7 million in its first year.

Mike has no qualms about giving due credit to the product that facilitated the site's quick development. "Net-Object's Fusion has tremendous power," he says. OurBeginning.com's development team selected Fusion after evaluating the the company's projected timeline. "Fusion integrated extremely well with Lotus Domino-giving us both scalability and performance."

Every one of OurBeginning.com's several hundred pages was generated with Fusion, which includes e-commerce enabling as part of its features. "The site speaks for itself," Mike asserts. "It's high-end e-commerce. We were either going to do it right or not at all."

It certainly seems they're doing it right. The friendly interface, which allows users to preview stationery options, is constantly expanding. By year-end, OurBeginning.com even plans to offer its site in several languages. The Budowskis will continue to rely on Fusion as their business grows. This is, after all, only the beginning.

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This article was originally published in the November 1999 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: <i>Entrepreneur</i>'s Complete Guide to Software.