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Subject: Faulkner Systems Flash 03/29/00 - (Part 2 of 3)

Electronic Business 
	 Ariba and medical industry B2B e-commerce services provider Neoforma.com
entered into a channel partner agreement, whereby Neoforma.com will
integrate the Ariba B2B Commerce Platform with the Neoforma.com Medical
Marketplace, an online hub for medical equipment with access to more than
1500 suppliers of medical products. The integration is intended to enable
Neoforma.com to broaden and customize its offerings for trading partners in
the healthcare supply chain. 
	 In addition, Ariba reported an agreement with agricultural and food
conglomerate Cargill to establish an Internet exchange, Novopoint.com, that
will connect buyers and sellers of food and beverage ingredients, packaging,
and services. Novopoint will operate as an independent, neutral entity.
	 Autoweb.com and CarsDirect reported a business alliance to jointly develop
a direct co-branded new-car buying service on Autoweb.com. The service will
enable the consumer to receive an upfront, fixed price, while conducting the
entire automotive purchase process online. The pact also provides for
placement of exclusive links between the companies' sites and licensing of
data content and tools.
	 BP Amoco, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Royal
Dutch/Shell Group, Societe Generale, and the TotalFine Elf Group agreed to
form an online B2B marketplace. The IntercontinentalExchange will focus on
trading energy, metal, and other commodities.
	  Commerce One entered into an agreement with webMethods, whereby
	  webMethods will provide its cross-platform B2Bi offering to rapidly
integrate suppliers with Commerce One MarketSite. The deal is intended to
facilitate real-time e-business transactions among diverse trading
partners. 
	 In addition, Commerce One and PACCAR division ePaccar reported the
formation of Truckxchange.com, a business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce
company that is intended to create a virtual global marketplace for goods
and services commercial vehicle industry. Commerce One will provide trading
exchange technology and services to enable the marketplace, which will link
commercial vehicle manufacturers, customers, dealers, and suppliers for the
procurement of goods and services.
	 In a bid to push into the booming B2B market, eBay unveiled its Business
Exchange, an area of its site that serves as a marketplace targeting small
businesses. From different areas of eBay, the service pulls together
business-related categories, such as office equipment, industrial equipment,
computer hardware, and software, grouping them in one location. It also
provides a series of shortcuts to business-related searches, where buyers
can click directly to find desired items.
	 Global e-business products and services provider eXcelon formed a
partnership with XML-based B2B e-commerce products provider XMLSolutions,
whereby eXcelon will incorporate and resell XMLSolutions' Java-based XEDI
Translator with eXcelon's B2B Integration Server. The deal is intended to
allow companies to expand their existing EDI trading systems, and to enable
smaller suppliers, without access to traditional EDI, to participate in B2B
transactions over the Internet.
	 Global B2B software and services provider Harbinger and international
enterprise retail software provider JDA Software formed an alliance to
provide integrated B2B offerings to improve supply chain communications and
operating efficiencies. The firms will integrate JDA's AS/400-based
Merchandise Management System with Harbinger's TrustedLink data
transformation and integration software. The deal is intended to enable
retailers and suppliers to seamlessly exchange volumes of mission-critical
information, such as purchase orders and advanced shipping notices, via
traditional and alternative e-business methods.
	 i2 Technologies and Siemens IT Service, a provider of managed services for
IT infrastructure, formed a strategic alliance to develop an open
marketplace that offers procurement management services. The deal is
intended to afford automated order and fulfillment management for complex
products and services via i2's TradeMatrix platform, addressing procurement
activities, including order placement and external supplier collaboration.
	  In addition, i2 and IBM reported that i2 e-business applications will run
on AS/400 business servers. The alliance is intended to enable AS/400 users
to link to electronic marketplaces such as i2's TradeMatrix.com and increase
participation in B2B marketplaces via i2's e-business and TradeMatrix
offerings, thereby reducing expenses and increasing revenues and
responsiveness to customer demand.
	 Lawson Software debuted its next-generation e-business software line,
lawson.insight, which adds new deliverable e-commerce and e-business
functionality and repackages Lawson's enterprise software into three
bundles: e-business transaction engines, role-based Self-Evident
Applications, and offerings extensions. The products are designed for
e-business operational improvement of financials, human resources,
distribution, procurement, and analytical processes. Lawson also reported
the branding of lawson.consulting, the company's implementation project
management and consulting division, and lawson.community, digital exchanges
customizable to meet an enterprises' specific information and process flow
requirements. 
	 Also, to afford its channel partners new vertical industry opportunities,
Lawson unveiled plans to eliminate its shrink-wrap software business.
Instead, its ERP packages will be hosted by ASPs such as USinternetworking.
The company will discontinue sales of traditional Win32 applications by
year's end, although it will continue to support existing client-server
based customers.
	 Nortel Networks, having fortified its position in e-business with its
recent acquisitions of Clarify and Periphonics, launched the Clarify
eBusiness Applications Unit to provide enterprises and service providers
with B2B applications and services for managing customer relationships and
building virtual Internet marketplaces. For the new organization, Nortel
integrated its own Internet and contact center capabilities with Clarify's
CRM offerings and Periphonics' advanced voice recognition. For support,
Nortel's Clarify eBusiness Applications Unit formed an alliance with
Andersen Consulting. to deliver professional services to assist firms in
implementation of e-business strategies, processes, and technologies.
	 Novell released NDS eDirectory for Windows 2000, Net services software
designed to enable organizations using Microsoft software to simplify and
speed their transformation to e-business. Novell also unveiled NDS
eDirectory and NDS Corporate Edition for Linux, designed to enable Linux
users to build and manage secure and customized relationships with customers
and partners who want to use the Web as a primary channel for conducting
business. NDS eDirectory is intended to allow customers to integrate their
existing mix of UNIX, NetWare, Linux, Windows 2000, and Windows NT servers
and clients under a single directory structure.
	 In an effort to increase market share by targeting enterprises that have
standardized on UNIX and Oracle, customer-centric e-business provider Onyx
Software reported plans to expand its application platform support to
include multiple UNIX operating systems and the Oracle data base. Offerings
are expected to ship during the second half of 2000.
	 At the Oracle Applications User Group Conference Europe, Oracle previewed
components of the customer-facing applications in its upcoming e-business
suite, Oracle Applications Release 11i. Key applications, such as Oracle
iSupport, Oracle eMail Center, Oracle Customer Intelligence and Oracle
Scripting, are tightly integrated with all other customer-related functions.
Other applications introduced include Oracle iStore, Oracle iMarketing, and
Oracle iPayment. 
	 The company also introduced the Oracle Advanced Benefits component of
Oracle Applications 11i, a benefits package to help companies retain and
compensate valued employees. It was designed to provide support for
multi-employer benefit administration; to integrate front and back office
applications; and to extend the scope of employee and managerial
self-service.  In addition, Oracle launched Oracle AppsNet, an online
	 community for Oracle e-business customers and partners. Oracle AppsNet
provides end-user customers and implementation partners with an online
forum to share Oracle Applications e-business suite experience and product
information globally and learn from Oracle experts and partners. The forum
provides interactive discussion groups, message boards, and up-to-date
product and implementation information directly to e-business customers and
partners.
	 Oracle and Hutchison Port Holdings unveiled their joint venture, the
	 Global Transport eXchange (GTX), a worldwide online exchange for the
transportation services industry. GTX will be a joint venture between
Portsnportals.com, the e-commerce operations of Hutchison Port Holdings
(HPH), and Oracle. The exchange will use Oracle's e-business marketplace
platform to enable buyers and sellers of logistics and transportation
services to transact and share information via the Internet.
	 Several former oil company executives prepared to launch an Internet
trading site for crude oil and refined petroleum products. Dubbed Petroleum
Electronic Pricing Exchange (PEPEX), the site will begin permitting
participants to electronically negotiate sales on May 1. The site is aimed
at national oil companies, airlines, utilities, governments, and rental car
agencies. Users will be charged a per-barrel fee.
	 Following a period of testing, Web commerce company Priceline reported
plans to initiate PricelineMortgage service throughout the US.
PricelineMortgage will guarantee closing costs and rate points based upon
the homebuyer's county of residence.
	 Fifty global food, beverage, and consumer product manufacturers agreed to
work with the industry trade association Grocery Manufacturers of America to
consider creating an electronic B2B marketplace. The marketplace would offer
access to suppliers throughout the supply chain, from materials on forward.
Companies involved include General Mills, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Coca
Cola, Kraft, and others. PricewaterhouseCoopers is working as a consultant
on the initiative.
	 SAP reported plans to partner with IBM Global Financing to develop the SAP
Leasing and Asset Management offering, which is intended to help leasing
companies streamline and integrate the leasing process by supporting the
entire front- and back-office lease chain. The offering will enable lessors,
lessees, and suppliers to collaborate in real time via the Internet. Through
SAP CRM with the mySAP.com Marketplace, the new application will allow
companies to sell leases, collaborate to market and re-market equipment,
offer financing alternatives and new channels of commerce, monitor contract
status, and analyze profitability. IBM Global Financing will provide its
operating experience to ensure that the offering meets the leasing
industry's global requirements. 
	 SAP will also join BASF and global chemical companies, including
Degussa-Huls AG, Henkel KGaA, and Metallgesellschaft AG, to form an
independent joint venture for the creation of an electronic marketplace for
the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Via SAP subsidiary SAPMarkets,
the new venture will assume responsibility for development of the mySAP.com
chemical and pharmaceutical marketplace and extension of the hub's scope
beyond indirect procurement to include technical services, direct
procurement, and additional value-added services, such as transportation and
financial services. 
	 SAP also reported that food industry firms Danone Group and Nestle plan to
establish a European consumer goods marketplace based on the mySAP.com
e-business platform. The hub, CPGmarket, is expected to enhance logistics
efficiencies and reduce procurement costs for businesses producing,
distributing, and selling consumer goods. The exchange's offerings will
include industry information, automated orders and sales processing,
catalogue offers, auctions, sourcing services for raw materials and
packaging, and capital goods and services. 
	 SAS Institute unveiled plans to port its software to Red Hat Linux later
	 in the year. The company added that it will also make the software
compatible with all major Linux distributions. The plan is intended to
broaden the range of platforms available to decision-support and data
warehousing customers wishing to run SAS applications. 
	 Vsource and Internet Commerce Corporation (ICC) formed a strategic
marketing and technical alliance, whereby ICC will connect its Internet
electronic data interchange (EDI) network with Virtual Source Network,
Vsource's pure Internet B2B eProcurement application. The combination is
intended to afford a seamless end-to-end set of pure-Internet EDI services
and eProcurement application tools to enable businesses to fully integrate
their supply chains from product development, through customer order, to
direct and indirect materials purchasing.
	 Yahoo! rolled out Yahoo! B2B Marketplace, a one-stop B2B directory
	 offering a range of equipment, inventory, and product listings from
leading B2B e-commerce sites for companies looking to streamline purchasing
processes. The hub offers variable and fixed-pricing options and features
over 48,000 initial listings through more than 650 categories.

Financial News 
	 Andersen Consulting reported revenues of $8.9 billion, up eight percent
from the previous year. Approximately $1.5 billion of this revenue was from
electronic commerce, compared with $500 million in e-commerce revenue in
1998. According to a story in the Wall Street Journal, people close to
	 America Online said that the company is considering an initial public
offering of stock for AOL Europe. The IPO could happen as early as summer
of this year. BuildNet, a Web-based marketplace for the home construction
	 industry, filed to raise up to $230 million in an initial public offering
of stock. Caldera's stock price leaped 110 percent on its opening day.
	 While the increase was substantial, the climb was less than with the IPOs
of other Linux firms, such as VA Linux Systems. Caldera's stock rose from
15 7/16 at opening to 29 7/6 at close.
	 Corel reported for its first quarter ended February 29, 2000, revenues
	 were $44.1 million, compared to $40.3 million in the first quarter of
fiscal 1999. Net loss for the quarter was $12.4 million or $0.19 per share
fully diluted, compared to a net loss of $14.6 million or $0.24 per share
in the same period last year.
	 MicroAge reported first quarter 2000 revenues of $1.11 billion, down from
the $1.44 billion recorded in the opening quarter of 1999. The company's net
loss was $48.35 million, or $2.31 per diluted share, compared with a net
gain of $2.07 million, or $0.10 per diluted share.
	 Micron Technology reported a quarterly net income of $161 million, or
	 $0.58 per share diluted, on revenues of $1.4 billion for its second
fiscal quarter ended March 2, 2000. This compares to a second quarter 1999
net income of $22 million, or $0.08 per share diluted, on revenues of $1.0
billion. Oracle reported that in its fiscal third quarter, net income
	 increased 80 percent to $498 million, or $0.17 per share, while revenue
grew to $2.4 billion. This compares to $2.1 billion in revenue, $277
million in net income, and $0.09 per share in Q3 last year.
	 Progress Software reported for its first quarter ended February 29, 2000,
revenue increase of seven percent to $72.1 million, up from $67.1 million in
the same quarter of 1999. Net income was $9.1 million, up 28 percent from
$7.1 million, while diluted earnings per share of $0.22 represented an
increase of 22 percent over $0.18 in 1999.
	 SAP and Siebel Systems mutually agreed to settle two lawsuits that SAP
brought against Siebel for alleged unfair hiring of SAP employees. Terms of
the settlement were not disclosed. SAP had alleged that, in hiring 27 top
level SAP employees, Siebel used predatory tactics to limit SAP's capacity
to compete with Siebel, a leading CRM vendor. To shore up its high-level
ranks, Germany-based SAP initiated a program to offer top executives stock
options similar to those afforded by American technology firms.
	 To avoid the costs and distractions of lengthy legal battles, Xerox and
Hewlett-Packard (HP) reported an amicable settlement on mutually
satisfactory terms of all pending patent-infringement litigation against one
another. Xerox had filed complaints against HP products that use inkjet,
color balancing, and resolution enhancement technologies; HP had filed
complaints against Xerox products that use touchscreen user interface,
inkjet, and image enhancement technologies. Terms of the settlement were not
disclosed.

Internet 
	 America Online introduced Digital City 2000, an expansion of the company's
Digital City service that initially will reach more than 200 markets
throughout the US. It also launched Digital City Wireless, which allows
users to access Digital City's services from wireless phones, pagers, and
other handheld devices.
	 Application service provider Xspeedium.com launched a B2B Web trading
exchange that uses IBM's RS/6000 servers, Domino R5 application development
software, and IBM Global Services expertise. The marketplace is intended to
bring together buyers and sellers within a common vertical industry to
facilitate the real-time transfer of information, money, and goods.
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