Kevin Newcomb

Hosted intranet provider Planet Intra announced Monday (Jan 15) that it has signed 18 new partnership agreements worldwide. “These valuable Partnerships help us to significantly increase our reach and the customer base for our products and services,” said Alan McMillan, CEO of Planet Intra. “The ease and speed with which we are forming these relationships […]

AT&T, IBM and Lotus announced today (Jan 16) at Lotusphere in Orlando that the three companies have developed and will jointly market the ASP Enablement Suite, a new web hosting solution for the ASP market. This collaboration expands the existing relationship between AT&T and IBM. The ASP Enablement Suite targets the growing market of ISVs […]

Agiliti Inc., a technology services company that delivers internet-based infrastructure and application services, announced Monday (Jan 15) that it has raised an additional $40 million to expand its portfolio of IT infrastructure and e-commerce outsourcing services and add to its customer and partner base nationally. Agiliti’s financing consists of a $35 million Series C equity […]

Hostcentric Inc., one of the largest privately held managed service providers offering a full range of web hosting services, e-commerce solutions and technology infrastructure, announced Wednesday (Jan 10) that it has been selected by StorageProvider, a Storage Service Provider (SSP) that delivers real-time data storage and recovery management solutions, to host and manage The Oracle […]

Agilera, a leading full-service pure-play ASP, Thursday (Jan 11) announced that SmartMail, LLC, the emerging leader of expedited flat-sized mail and light parcel shipping services, has selected Agilera’s Extended Enterprise (XE) as its platform to support its Oracle financial applications. Agilera will assist in implementation and will host the Oracle E-Business Suite for SmartMail including […]

Portera, the vertical service provider (VSP) that develops and delivers a set of tailored subscription software and outsourcing services to the professional services industry, announced Friday (Jan 12) the signing of ITT Industries, Defense. The agreement is Portera’s first in the government contracting market since acquiring Maxwell Business Systems last month, and signals the market’s […]

At the North American International Auto Show on Thursday (Jan 11), IBM introduced a new “e-sourcing” option for automakers and their suppliers that enables them to lease leading-edge business applications over the Internet. Called IBMPlaces.ihost.com, the new service will enable fast, easy and inexpensive access to applications for core business processes for companies of all […]

UK-based ASP MERANT (London Stock Exchange (LSE):MRN; Nasdaq:MRNT)on Tuesday (Jan 9) announced that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire the Enterprise Division of NetObjects (Nasdaq:NETO), an IBM affiliate, for U.S. $18 million (approximately £12 million). The transaction is expected to be completede by March 2001. The value of the net assets, subject of […]

Tarantella Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Santa Cruz Operation Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOC), announced Wednesday (Jan 10) that Avnet Computer Marketing, Hall-Mark Division has become an authorized U.K. distributor for Tarantella Enterprise web-enabling software. Avnet Hall-Mark is a leading worldwide value-added distributor of enterprise computing products, software, storage and services that focuses on the […]

Internet security ASP McAfee.com (Nasdaq: MCAF) Wednesday (Jan 10) announced an agreement with the Internet service subsidiaries of SBC Communications, Inc. (NYSE: SBC) to provide anti-virus, privacy and firewall services to their DSL subscribers. Through this exclusive agreement, McAfee.com will host, maintain and support an SBC Security Center where customers of Southwestern Bell, Nevada Bell […]

AtWork Technologies Inc., a leading provider of Internet-based human resource management applications for mid-sized companies, today (Jan 10) announced that Automatic Data Processing Inc. (ADP) has made an equity investment in AtWork Technologies. ADP will have a minority investment in AtWork, and has announced a strategic partnership that includes a sales distribution agreement. Under the […]

FutureLink Corp. (Nasdaq: FTRL), a leading provider of software integration solutions, hosted application services and one of the first application infrastructure companies to provide software as a service, Tuesday (Jan 9) announced a strategic partnership with Insight (Nasdaq: NSIT), a leading global direct sales and marketer of brand name computers, hardware and software. Under the […]