In the early 2000s, the prevalent technical architecture in Nigeria was the client/server. However, the era of the internet was rapidly being adopted. The Equinox banking development team had to respond. In a classical build Vs Buy decision. Management wanted to see if a prototype of the Web-Based version of the Teller Module of the banking application could be achieved. Equinox Web-Teller was a successful proof-of-concept by a wholly Nigerian team that it could be done. Not only did it make use of JSP standard 1.0, and J2EE(1.3), it also incorporated biometric capabilities of Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Speech-To-Text (STT). The success of this prototype became a pre-cursor to the development of Neptune Software's SUPERNOVA banking application