We are so confident in the quality of iX Cards Professional that we invite you to comparison shop. Even better, we'll help you -- and most of the competition is "Free". Free, that is, if you don't count the extensive custom programming required to bring one of these "Free" systems into alignment with the look and feel of your web site. The hidden cost of the free solutions includes design sacrifices you must make and ongoing maintenance costs which result from the hard-coded HTML-emitting-Perl-script paradigm -- the "stone knives and bear skins" of the Information Age.

Even better for us, these "Free" solutions are all somewhat rigid with respect to their design, and don't provide the kind of flexibility required by modern web sites. Even the commercially supported "Free" solutions lack a scalable foundation.

By contrast, iX Cards Professional can be easily integrated with sites using technologies like Cascading Style Sheets, Flash, and JavaScript, and offers essentially unlimited scalability for enormous sites by virtue of its WebObjects/Java foundation. And we help you integrate it in a seamless, sustainable way.

Our customers have told us that iX Cards is the only professional-grade internet postcard server available today. We asked them what alternatives they considered, and we did some of our own research, too. Then we examined four of the most widely used postcard systems available prior to the introduction of iX Cards Professional in more detail, and present the results.