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Enterprise solution provider Planet Intra Wednesday bundled its “instant Intranet” software for small and medium-size enterprises with Donovan’s Penguin 64 Lite — a 64-bit server running the Linux operating system. Linux systems developer Donovan plans to pre-install the software on 18,000 servers annually, providing customers with a 10-user license and the ability to add users […]

Linux, Linux, Linux…buy, buy, buy. Investors can’t get enough shares in the companies selling, servicing and supporting the radical operating system. The numbers speak for themselves: Red Hat (RHAT) was priced at $14 on August 12. With Tuesday’s close at $215 per share, the stock is up 1,435 percent and supports a market capitalization of […]

KPNQwest Tuesday purchased the remaining outstanding shares in EUnet Portugal, an ISP in which the company previously held a significant stake. Until now, KPNQwest held a 42.5 percent stake in the business ISP, but exercised options to take full control of the company. The acquisition puts to value of UEnet Portugal at £6.2 million. EUnet […]

Enterprise solution management provider TREEV Inc. Tuesday released AS View, an enterprise report management product developed for the AS/400 banking industry platform. TREEV (TREV) developed AS View for clients who require AS/400 viewing capabilities from DataTREEV, TREEV’s Internet ERM product. Using AS View, banking customers with 5250 terminals or PC’s running terminal emulation products will […]

German ISP Strato has considerably postponed its part-by-part sale to an unnamed American investor. Strato’s owner, Teles, revealed that shares would not be disposed of until 2001, apparently due to tax reasons. The reason behind the postponement might perhaps be traced to the German federal government’s announced plan to free disposition gains from taxation. The […]

chinadotcom corp. Tuesday continued its dealmaking binge with a pan-Asia retail alliance, fresh on the heels of a new user base milestone. chinadotcom’s (CHINA) newest support beam for its pan-Asia “build, distribute, sell” strategy comes in the form of an three-way joint venture alliance with The BigStore.com and China Commerce Development Group. The Hong Kong-based […]

Internet issues showed no signs of slowing down in the new millennium. A number of analyst upgrades and positive comments from Merrill Lynch sent business-to-business and infrastructure stocks higher. Although Merrill expects a first-quarter pull-back in business-to-consumer issues, the firm remains very bullish on InfoSpace.com, Internet Capital Group, HomeStore.com, Exodus, Amazon.com, Yahoo!, America Online and […]

Business-to-business solution provider ObjectSpace Inc. Monday rolled out its Voyager Enterprise Application Server 3.2. designed to increase the reliability, scalability and security of intranets. Built on the strength of Voyager ORB Professional, Voyager application server enables the construction of distributed applications using standard Enterprise Java Beans. Through its “universal container,” Voyager supports RMI, CORBA COM […]

Reporter@Large addressed vertical portals and Student Advantage’s opportunity within the space in Part I. For Part II, Reporter@Large had an exclusive interview with Student Advantage, Chairman, President and CEO, Raymond Sozzi, Jr. Reporter@Large: Can you give us an idea of what Student Advantage has been about since 1992? Sozzi: Absolutely. STAD’s core mission was specific […]

Russian stocks rallied on news of president Boris Yeltsin’s resignation. Internet issues were fractionally higher, despite pre-millennium jitters and light volume. internet.com’s Internet Stock Index rose 3.11, or 0.36 percent, to 860.35, the Nasdaq Composite jumped 32.41 to 4069.28 and the Dow Jones industrial average matured 44.26 to 11497.12. CMGI (CMGI) rose 8-1/16 to 276-7/8. […]

Internet issues finished lower amid profit taking and concerns over the supply of Net shares out-stripping demand. Volume remained light as investors were logging off and preparing to enter the new millennium. internet.com’s Internet Stock Index fell 11.50, or 1.32 percent, to 857.24, the Nasdaq Composite dropped 4.60 to 4036.86 and the Dow Jones industrial […]

A few years ago, a portal’s primary function was to act as a virtual gateway, “porting” users to other Web destinations. Yahoo! (YHOO), Excite, and Infoseek, among other leading portals, began realizing the flaws in that model. The original plan may have called for such “porting,” but the hubs (as they are now referred to) […]