Milinx, 1997 to 2002
The record of the application service provider that Maynard L. Dokken (often written Maynard Dokken) founded in 1997 and led until January 2002: its hosted business applications, its own data center in Vancouver, its news releases and its history.
1997-2001 Milinx
Message from Maynard L. Dokken
Milinx was the result of more than ten years of work. Its name comes from Minix, the Unix-like operating system on which SuccessInc built its original application server in 1988. Milinx carried the CreditAssure name: it took an exclusive licence of the CreditAssure trademark from Credit Assure International, Inc., an affiliated company, in March 1999, and acquired that company’s assets, including the worldwide rights to the trademark, in October 1999.[1][2] Assured Card Corporation remained a separate company, and the Assured Credit development work is told on its own site.
While I led it, Milinx was a powerhouse of innovation and development. This site shows the company as it was in those years. Its content on SuccessInc, Assured Credit, Assured Card and Milinx is taken from the record: archived copies of the original websites, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the company’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, its news releases, and other independent sites and documents.
2001 and 2002
On 21 February 2001 Milinx reported that more than 30,000 users had at least one ASP TechONE service enabled.[3] From the end of May 2001, as a condition of new funding, an advisor placed by the funders managed the operating company, and most staff were laid off on 19 and 22 June 2001.[4][5] On 28 August 2001 I gave up the title of President, remained CEO and became Chairman; a new management team came in during August and September 2001, and I disagreed with the direction it took.[6][7]
I resigned from Milinx on 25 January 2002[8] and formed a foundation, MarkCrest, to carry my work forward and to support innovators and inventors worldwide.
Maynard L. DokkenFounder of Milinx; President to August 2001 and CEO to January 2002
First written in 2022; corrected to the dated record in November 2026.
World Leading ASP Industry Technology & Service Provider!
SOHO to SME - Industry Leading ASP
Milinx's three main product suites were Milinx Portal suite, Milinx Communicator Suite and Milinx CRM Suite including a portal suite (Milinx Portal Suite), an electronic storefront (miStore) and a content solution (miContent). The communications suite included (miOffice), a unified messaging solution (miMessaging), a Virtual Private Network or VPN (miNetwork), an e-storage cloud solution (miStorage), and a billing application (miBilling). Market Leading Business Communications, Productivity & e-Commerce Solutions.
HostedOS & miDesktop
ASP Market Leader Business Communications, Productivity & e-Commerce. Top innovations included a Hosted OS for all devices, announced on 15 May 2001, with a universal protocol for database access and one profile for all devices; the product page of 31 March and 1 June 2001 lists it as “in development for future release”.[9][10]
The release of 15 May 2001 described a computing solution that would have all of the features of an operating system, but on a fully hosted basis. Fully hosted at the Milinx Application Data Center for businesses to access their Milinx applications securely through any Internet browser at any time on any computing platform anywhere in the world.[11]
miDESKTOP was to provide a unified customer profile so when you accessed your desktop from office, home, anywhere, it would be exactly the same as your last use. It was also to provide the highest level of security and 24/7 support.
Innovation, Research, Development - Implementation
Innovation, Research & Development led to numerous patent applications[12] in the areas of biometric encryption, voice context e-mail[13], voice recognition, and virtual call center environments. The company built SDK's or "toolkits," to enable ease of customization and design for the many applications that it offered including miPortal services through API's.
Milinx social communities application within a secure ASP space was developed with a "toolkit" for customizable portal interface and services using SDK and API's for clients following IEEE best practices and standards.
Cloud Services
The biggest advantage of Web-delivered software? It allowed less in-house maintenance of business software and technical personnel recruitment. Some of the Cloud based features included:
- miDrive a cloud based storage solution
- miNetwork a cloud based VPN service
- Secure encryption service
- VPS or Virtual Private Servers
- DPS or Dedicated Private Servers
- Access to best-practices through partners such as Sun Microsystems and IEEE
Milinx improved the quality of business activities, reduced costs and increased productivity. Private encrypted VPN, data and servers.
SMAP to MMAP Universal Device Access
The goal was simple Universal AnytimeAnywhere access to SOHO & SMB Desktop & Applications.
Milinx defined the Systems/Mobile Application Provider (S/MAP) sector.[14] Its wireless applications were listed on milinx.com in March and May 2001 as “in development for future release”.[15]
Milinx also focused on building a wireless network for access to the UniversalOS and miPortal from a high speed using its Data Center.
ASP eCommerce and Payments
These services included:
- miStore for online commerce
- miBilling for online bill presentment and e-payment
- miWireless for anywhere access to ASP services
- M/MAP integrated managed platform
- S/MAP for mobile access to ASP services
On 2 October 2000 Heartland Payment Systems, “one of the nation's leading payment providers”, announced an alliance with Milinx subsidiary CreditAssure Financial, Inc., under which customers of Milinx “will be able to apply online for their Internet Merchant account”.[16]
The CreditAssure name came to Milinx through an exclusive licence of the trademark from Credit Assure International, Inc., an affiliated company (15 March 1999), and the purchase of that company’s assets, including the worldwide rights to the CreditAssure trademark (15 October 1999).[1][2]
History & Origin of ASP
History & Origin of ASP
Origin of ASP SuccessInc created an ASP (SaaS) multi-tenant gateway and data repository server in 1987-1988.[17][18]
ASP Vertical SuccessInc launched its vertical application called APP1, focusing on employment listings in 1988.[19]
ASP Gateway SuccessInc created APPNET as an ASP (Application Service Provider) SaaS (Software as a Service) Cloud Computing gateway in 1988.[20] This provided a way to route requests for application providers and manage user accounts, data, and settings.
Customizable Application Platform SuccessInc APPNET created framework for customizable Themes or Applications for any market or industry vertical in 1988.
Shared User Profile and Data Repository Access: APPNET provided application providers and users access to Themes and Applications with single login user account in 1988.
Multi-tenant Architecture SuccessInc customized Minix OS provided a multi-channel network gateway for access to APPNET server in 1988 for APPNET providers and user accounts.
Cloud-like Storage and Access SuccessInc had a working application service with cloud-like storage with data exchange in 1988.
The full dated line, from the 1987 gateway to MarkCrest in 2002, is on the History page; the years 1994 to 2002 are on The record, 1994–2002.
About this page
This page keeps the page published at milinx.co/ on the 2022 site. The 2022 page title read: The Original Milinx - Incubator for Cutting Edge Technology Solutions
. Apart from quoted records, the words of the 2022 site are the company’s later account. Headings, introductions, captions and reference markers were added to make the record easier to read and to check. In 1.1.0 (14 November 2026), 24 passages of the 2022 text were corrected to the dated record and 15 were left out or replaced; each change and its reason is listed in the change record of this release. Text that the old site repeated on many pages (4 blocks of this page) is shown once, where it fits best. Facts follow the record on maynardldokken.com and the dated record.
References
Numbered in the order they are first cited on this page. Each entry links back to the places that cite it.
- ↑ a b Form 10-K for the year to 30 June 2000. U.S. SEC, EDGAR, accession 0001096906-00-000256, filed 13 October 2000. Incorporation on 10 December 1998; the CreditAssure licence of 15 March 1999; trading on the OTC Bulletin Board from 8 June 2000 (Item 5); the Data Center opened in August 2000; Assured Card Corporation currently inactive.
- ↑ a b Form 10-QSB for the quarter to 31 December 1999. U.S. SEC, EDGAR, accession 0000891020-00-000338, filed 22 February 2000. The purchase of Credit Assure International’s intangible property, including the worldwide rights to the CreditAssure trademark, on 15 October 1999, for 50,000 common shares.
- ↑ Archived copy of www.milinx.com/investor_relations/press/022101.html. Internet Archive, Wayback Machine, captured 28 June 2001. Capture confirmed through archive.org’s availability API.
- ↑ Form 8-K (report dated 23 August 2001). U.S. SEC, EDGAR, accession 0001096906-01-500243, filed 24 August 2001. From the end of May 2001 an advisor placed as a condition of funding managed the business operation of Milinx Business Services, Inc.
- ↑ Form 8-K, workforce reduction. U.S. SEC, EDGAR, accession 0001096906-01-500155, filed 12 July 2001. Milinx laid off the majority of its workforce on 19 and 22 June 2001.
- ↑ Form 8-K, appointment of a President and Chief Operational Officer. U.S. SEC, EDGAR, accession 0001096906-01-500271, filed 30 August 2001. A new President was appointed effective 28 August 2001; Maynard L. Dokken continued as CEO and was appointed Chairman of the Board on 28 August 2001.
- ↑ Form 8-K, new senior management team. U.S. SEC, EDGAR, accession 0001096906-01-500275, filed 5 September 2001. A new team of senior management, effective 4 September 2001.
- ↑ Form 8-K, resignation of Maynard L. Dokken. U.S. SEC, EDGAR, accession 0001096906-02-000074, filed 29 January 2002. On 25 January 2002 Maynard L. Dokken resigned as director and CEO of Milinx and all its subsidiaries.
- ↑ Archived copy of www.milinx.com/investor_relations/press/051501.html. Internet Archive, Wayback Machine, captured 26 May 2001. Capture confirmed through archive.org’s availability API.
- ↑ Archived copy of www.milinx.com/presence/midesktop.html. Internet Archive, captured 31 March 2001. miDESKTOP: “(This product is in development for future release)”.
- ↑ Milinx Business Group, section “The hosted desktop”. maynardldokken.com.
- ↑ Milinx Business Group Inc: patent applications by assignee. GoodIP. Lists, among others, CA 2,311,871 “Threshold biometric authentication”, CA 2,299,980 “Voice context e-mail” and the CDPD/FM IP communication system.
- ↑ Milinx Business Group, section “Patents and research”. maynardldokken.com.
- ↑ Milinx Business Group, section “Wireless and the mobile application”. maynardldokken.com.
- ↑ Archived copy of www.milinx.com/applications/wireless_apps.html. Internet Archive, captured 31 March 2001. The wireless applications: “(These products are in development for future release.)”
- ↑ Archived copy of milinx.com/company/press/100200.html. Internet Archive, Wayback Machine, captured 21 January 2001. Capture confirmed through archive.org’s availability API.
- ↑ Maynard L. Dokken, section “SuccessInc (1987)”. maynardldokken.com.
- ↑ SuccessInc, section “The gateway: how it was built (1987–1988)”. maynardldokken.com.
- ↑ SuccessInc, section “Applications”. maynardldokken.com.
- ↑ SuccessInc, section “The AppNet platform”. maynardldokken.com.