Clint Boulton

Tivoli Systems Wednesday released a network management tool for enterprises and service providers. Tivoli NetView 6.0 captures data designed to help businesses solve network problems. The new version hosts a Web client, router fault isolation and location sensitive topology, which all help simplify network management. The Web client lets network administrators access Tivoli NetView data […]

Macromedia Inc. Wednesday launched a new search site for the developer community. The Macromedia Exchange for Dreamweaver UltraDev lets developers search for extensions they want, participate in discussion threads, receive e-mail updates and rate and review the extensions. Macromedia’s sample extensions include extensions that will add e-commerce capabilities to sites, generate and send e-mail based […]

Bowstreet Tuesday initiated the use of directory services markup language to several technology companies, including Sun Microsystems Inc. Designed to bridge the gap between XML-based e-business applications, the XML standard connects companies’ business Webs. Created last year by Bowstreet, IBM Corp. , Microsoft Corp. , Novell Inc., Oracle Corp. and the Sun-Netscape alliance, the DSML […]

Factiva Tuesday unveiled a solution that allows businesses to integrate content from a variety of publishing partners into their intranets. Factiva Publisher offers a global content set of nearly 5,000 external information sources including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires as well as other content published in 12 different languages and stock […]

Privately-held software firm Portal Wave Inc. Monday kicked off an enterprise application portal solution designed to merge companies’ enterprise tools into one e-business platform. Portal Wave’s Application Portal Server 1.0 purpose is to aggregate multiple applications such as enterprise resource planning and customer resource management into a unified portal interface. The technology that allows this […]

Cisco Systems Inc. Monday made a rare step out of the networking world, taking a $100 million stake in Liberate Technologies. Cisco will pick up a 3.88 percent stake in Liberate, which specializes in the delivery of digital television content. The networking giant will also strengthen product, marketing and sales ties with Liberate. The companies […]

Packeteer Inc. late Thursday bought privately-held software firm Workfire Technologies International Inc. for about $73 million in stock. The Net security firm will exchange 2 million common shares for all of Workfire’s outstanding common stock and options. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter and begin contributing to earnings by fiscal 2001. […]

Extranet provider CoreExpress Thursday secured an equipment and services deal worth $100 million from Nortel Networks. CoreExpress also has the option to purchase additional Nortel Networks optical solutions as network expansion demands, bringing the potential estimated contract value close to $300 million. CoreExpress will use Nortel’s package to support initial deployment of a 22,000-mile, coast-to-coast, […]

Heeding the call from research firms that are extremely bullish on enterprise portals overseas, IntraNet Solutions Inc. bought InfoAgent Solutions BV Wednesday for an undisclosed sum. However, the firms did say the play was a cash transaction, anticipated to be accretive, and will make InfoAgent a wholly-owned subsidiary of IntraNet Solutions. An integrator of IntraNet […]

Electronic billing and payment company CheckFree signed a multi-year agreement with Equifax Inc. Wednesday, allowing it to incorporate the Equifax Secure authentication engine into its EBP enrollment process. The move will allow faster verification of customer identity as they sign up to view and pay bills electronically, CheckFree said. Financial arrangements were not disclosed, but […]

Global e-commerce service provider InfoSpace Tuesday inked a B2B hosting deal with infrastructure firm HOTBIZ.COM. Through this agreement, HOTBIZ.COM will integrate and offer B2B applications for intranets, extranets and e-commerce applications on InfoSpace’s B2B center. InfoSpace’s B2B center provides private label enterprise services that allow customers to offer new intranet and e-commerce applications that can […]

BlueLight.com, the e-commerce site and free ISP that recently launched in preview mode, is being driven by Art Technology Group Inc.‘s Dynamo product suite. BlueLight is being developed by Kmart Corp. with the aid of Softbank Venture Capital and other investors. ATG said Dynamo was selected for its ability to handle large traffic volume; consumer […]