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Top of the News

	 Ernst & Young agreed to sell its consulting unit to Cap Gemini for
approximately $11 billion in stock and cash. Almost 18,000 Ernst & Young
employees are to join the European IT services firm, which will incorporate
its acquisition into its global computer services operation. Ernst & Young
agreed to shed its consulting unit to eliminate potential conflict of
interest problems arising from regulations prohibiting a company from
providing professional services to organizations that it also audits.
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Application Development 
	 The Sun-Netscape Alliance released iPlanet Portal Server 3.0, a packaged
application platform for the deployment of portals for e-commerce and
collaboration. The package is designed to speed development time, affording
users instant connection to information and transaction services upon
access. Package features include: Membership Services, for portal community
establishment; Presentation and Aggregation, for portal page layout and
creation; Personalization Services, for multi-tiered personalization of
content; Security Services, for extranet and remote access security through
user authentication; and Integration Services, for applications integration
via HTML and XML.

Agreements/Joint Ventures 
	 AOL unveiled a five-year, $60 million strategic alliance with
HomeGrocer.com that makes the firm its Internet grocer of choice across its
AOL, CompuServe, AOL.COM, Netscape Netcenter, Digital City, AOL MovieFone,
and Oxygen.com brands.
	 Bull Smart Cards and CPI Group signed a marketing co-operative agreement
	 to cover the North and Latin American markets. Bull will, in association
with CPI, will work to bring expertise and security to card users, including
banks seeking to migrate to the microprocessor card, countries wishing to
deploy ID documents on smart cards, and companies aiming to secure their
computer networks and Internet access. 
	 Bull also formed a strategic alliance to develop Internet banking
	 offerings with the German group Brokat. The alliance with Brokat involves
co-operation in technology and marketing activities. In particular, Bull
will integrate its products and software the Twister online banking
platform developed by Brokat.
	 eBay and NEC formed a joint venture in Japan. NEC will take an equity
	 stake in eBay Japan and promote the site through its BIGLOBE ISP, personal
computer products, and offline marketing campaigns.
	 Ford, Oracle, and Cisco reported that Cisco will become an equity partner
in auto-xchange, an online automotive exchange, to handle Ford's $300
billion automotive supply chain with suppliers, dealers, and consumers. In
this agreement, Cisco will bring secure network management to auto-xchange.
	 GM named PricewaterhouseCoopers the lead integrator for its
business-to-business e-commerce initiatives, including GM TradeXchange.
PricewaterhouseCoopers will provide advise on strategy along with supply
chain-oriented technology implementation.
	 National Semiconductor reported that it will be working with
Hewlett-Packard to speed the deployment of Gigabit Ethernet over copper
wiring. This cooperative effort is expected to lead to faster growth and
deployment of Gigabit Ethernet over copper technology, and to this end, HP
is qualifying National's IEEE-compliant DP83891 product that will provide
support for existing Gigabit-over-copper installations. 
	 In addition, Hewlett-Packard and TANTAU integrated the HP Praesidium
VirtualVault with TANTAU's Wireless Internet platform. This offering is
designed to provide a safe and rapid way to deploy innovative wireless
Internet services for banking, financial, news, information, travel, medical
and other mobile applications.
	 IBM and Geac formed a strategic alliance to provide e-business offerings,
including services and enterprise resource planning software, for mid-market
companies throughout the food, beverage, apparel, and footwear industries
worldwide. 
	 IBM also reported that it is working with AT&T and Lycos to deliver a
broadband-enabled Internet appliance and services to Fidelity Investments
customers. End-users will receive investment planning tools, customized
content, online trading, Web surfing, e- and other services.
	 Intel signed a definitive agreement to invest $250 million in Infineon
Technologies. Additionally, Infineon and Intel agreed to cooperate in the
production of DRAM memory products. As part of this cooperation, the
companies will share technology, and Infineon will increase its
manufacturing capacity for DRAM memory products, as well as support
production of Direct RDRAM memory technology.
	 Lucent and Hewlett-Packard formed a series of strategic agreements
	 covering Lucent's Unified Messenger offering and Communications Software
Management Systems products. HP's Complementary Products Division will
sell, stage, deliver, integrate and install Lucent's Communications
Software Management Systems offerings, beginning with the NetMinder System
family of performance and traffic management applications. Also, Lucent's
Unified Messenger will be offered and integrated for Microsoft Exchange
through HP's Microsoft Services Operation.
	 Microsoft made an agreement with Broadband Office to integrate
	 applications for BroadBand Office customers. The agreement, which follows
a $25 million equity investment from Microsoft in BroadBand Office, will
provide BroadBand Office customers with applications focusing on messaging,
e-commerce, Web- and application-hosting, and media services. 
	 Also, Microsoft and Gilat Satellite Networks reported plans to provide
consumer two-way satellite broadband service. Trials of the service are
underway, and wide availability of service is expected by the end of 2000. 
	 Finally, Microsoft inked an agreement with FirstWorld,, a provider of
Internet services and data center solutions, to develop and incorporate
Microsoft products into its application service providers (ASP) portfolio.
The agreement includes a $12 million investment by Microsoft and is focused
on working with FirstWorld to develop an ASP package for small to
medium-sized businesses.
	 NCR and Sterling Commerce reported a global marketing alliance to provide
an integrated portfolio of image-based core check processing offerings to
the financial industry. The marketing alliance will permit NCR and Sterling
Commerce to be to offer a combination workflow and architecture to banks
that will enable them to capture all check image transactions in a
VECTOR:Sort bulk file environment. These check images can then be inserted
into, and retrieved from, a common image warehouse, NCR's ImageMark
Archive.  At the BEA Users Conference in San Francisco, NCR and BEA Systems
	 unveiled a multi-million dollar licensing and joint marketing agreement.
Both companies will jointly market a BEA eLink Adapter for Teradata. In
addition, NCR will resell the BEA eLink family of products, a suite of BEA
eLink adapters, and BEA WebLogic Server. BEA will resell Teradata on
Windows NT as a Business Intelligence option for BEA eLink.
	 Novell and Fujitsu Siemens Computers, formed a partnership through which
Fujitsu Siemens Computers will license Novell Internet Caching System
technology for use in hardware appliances designed to accelerate Net
performance for enterprise businesses, service providers, and content
publishers.
	 Oracle and Novistar formed an alliance to develop and deliver e-business
products and services to the energy industry. Novistar will own and market
the Oracle Energy Upstream suite of products, and Oracle will offer products
such as Internet Procurement, Customer Relationship Management, and Oracle
Exchange.
	 Sears, Carrefour, and Oracle reported that they will launch a global
business-to-business online exchange serving the retail industry. The open,
international GlobalNetXchange, based on Oracle's e-business marketplace
platform, initially will focus on Sears and Carrefour's combined $80 billion
supply chain purchases from 50,000 suppliers, partners and distributors.
Other retailers will be invited to join the founding partners in
GlobalNetXchange. Oracle will hold a minority interest and will provide
software, implementation, and support.
	 ASP USinternetworking struck a deal with AT&T to jointly sell and market
application hosting services, targeting small to mid-sized firms. AT&T
becomes the preferred provider of data networking services to USi's clients,
while AT&T will refer its clients to USi for hosted applications.

Applications Software 
	 Andersen Consulting unveiled the Mobile Corporate Portal, which enables
users to access corporate e-mail accounts, data bases, and to search the
Internet from mobile phones.
	 Baan unveiled BaanMarketing, an application that extends the CRM
functionality of BaanFrontoffice by providing marketing business analysis,
campaign management, and campaign execution. The offering is fully
integrated with BaanSales, so that leads are automatically routed to
appropriate sales teams, based on industry, territory, product line, major
account affiliation, or opportunity size or type. The software is also fully
integrated with BaanConfiguration, so that customer interaction center staff
can close deals themselves, via BaanSales' and BaanConfiguration's quoting,
pricing, proposal generating, and product configuration capabilities. 
	 Baan also introduced BaanFrontOffice Direct, a direct sales offering
targeting businesses with complicated go-to-market, products, or pricing
strategies. Fully integrating automated pricing, proposal generation,
configuration and marketing applications into the same user and modeling
environment, the offering is designed to reduce selling time, improve
accuracy in orders and pricing, and facilitate data sharing across front
office operations. 

Chip Technology News 
	 AMD introduced the 550MHz AMD-K6-2 processor with 3DNow! technology. The
AMD-K6-2 processor family is designed to be fully compatible with the
Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system, as well as Windows 98 and other PC
operating systems.
	 National Semiconductor entered the GSM wireless telephone market with an
integrated radio transceiver for GSM cellular telephony. The company also
disclosed its strategy for future product development of wireless
applications ranging from cellular phones to other portable electronics such
as mobile computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), portable printers
and faxes, and fully integrated communications devices.

Data Base Management Systems 
	 The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) awarded SAS the contract to
help develop and deploy a prototype for a new model for workforce planning.
The goal is to provide a system that allows government agencies to identify
workforce trends and assess their needs to ensure a highly qualified,
diverse workforce. 
	 In addition, SAS reported the availability of Enterprise Reporter
	 software, Release 2.5. Enterprise Reporter allows IT departments to meet
end-user reporting needs within one end-user reporting suite. This ensures
data consistency across enterprise reporting, reducing the time IT
departments spend trying to resolve inconsistencies between reports
produced from data warehouses with different end-user reporting tools. The
latest release supports XML. 
	 SAS~ also reported the production availability of SAS/Warehouse
Administrator software, Version 2.0. This version provides users the ability
to proactively publish data warehouse information and track its usage, plus
manage the process of change in the data warehouse.

Workflow and Document Management 
	 Targeting the wireless market, Xerox rolled out MobileDoc, an application
that enables documents to be faxed and e-mailed remotely via cell phones,
pagers, and handheld computers. The offering will initially support
Motorola's PageWriter and TimePort interactive devices, as well as current
and future wireless phones from Nokia. 
	 In addition, Xerox, Sun Microsystems, and the Sun-Netscape Alliance's
iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions reported an agreement to bundle hardware,
software, and services to enable financial services and healthcare firms to
deliver information to their customers via the Internet. The offerings
comprise iPlanet e-commerce software (including Application Server,
BillerXpert, Directory Sever, and Web Server), Sun's servers with the
Solaris Operating Environment, and an integrated account team from Xerox for
marketing, sale, installation, and servicing of components. The package is
intended to allow organizations to design, assemble, and deliver large
volumes of documents, such as statements and bills, to a Web site ar an
e-mail document, as well as to traditional media such as paper documents,
archives, or CD-ROMs.

Data Warehousing 
	 Information Builders renewed its commitment to the Microsoft Data
	 Warehouse Alliance 2000. In addition, Information Builders qualified in
both the query/reporting and build/manage categories with its WebFOCUS and
Copy Manager products. By joining the Microsoft Data Warehouse Alliance
2000, Information Builders commits itself to supporting the Microsoft Data
Warehousing Framework 2000.
	 NCR unveiled a suite of data warehouse outsourcing products--Optimized
Outsourcing for Data Warehousing--designed to help companies build stronger
customer relationships. The first offer consists of complete operational
outsourcing for data warehousing.
	 Oracle reported the pending availability of Oracle8i Release 2 on Linux.
The latest offering from Oracle will provide businesses with a reliable,
scalable, and secure Internet database based on Linux.

Electronic Commerce 
	 Commerce One and BellSouth reported plans to establish a firm that will
function as an online business-to-business marketplace for companies in the
telecommunications industry. Commerce One and BellSouth will each maintain a
minority stake in the new venture, which is planned for a second quarter
launch. 
	 Commerce One also inked two agreements intended to expand its Global
Trading Web electronic network. In Spain, Commerce One struck a deal with
Spanish power company Endesa and PricewaterhouseCoopers to establish a new
business-to-business portal with a projected June launch date. Endesa,
majority owner of the new trading portal, plans to take the company public
by year's end. Commerce One also reported a similar joint venture with
Portugal Telecom's PT Prime-Business unit to establish a firm that will
deliver a Portuguese online procurement service. 
	 And finally, Commerce One and e-business infrastructure platform provider
New Era of Networks (NEON) unveiled the jointly developed Commerce One
BuySite to ERP Connector for SAP R/3, an XML-based connector integrating
Commerce One BuySite 6.0 with SAP R/3. The connector was designed to work
with NEON e-Biz Integrator, NEONadapter for SAP R/3, and NEONadapter for
Commerce One to speed time-to-market by providing business logic to create
and change purchase orders, synchronize data, perform account checking, and
check real-time order status.
	 EDS launched a series of e-business services, the Web Computing Suite,
which features Web hosting, security, network services, and application
services provisioning. The services, which are offered through direct sales
channels and through wholesale outlets, are targeted primarily to e-commerce
companies and Fortune 500 firms.
	 IBM and Cisco Systems agreed to provide Cisco customers with IBM's host
integration software free of charge. IBM's host integration products, which
afford Web access to data and applications that reside on host computers,
were tested for interoperability and certified as part of Cisco's Enterprise
Associates Program (EAP). IBM's host integration products included in the
EAP are IBM Host On-Demand, IBM Personal Communications, and IBM Host
Publisher. SAP AG unveiled the mySAP.com Marketplace, an online hub
	 designed to deliver professional applications and services from SAP and
its partner network to mySAP.com customers. Content and services offered
will include a partner directory service, catalogs to order services from
SAP and its partners, request-for-proposal capabilities for establishment
of SAP customer/partner business relationships, and communities for the
exchange of experiences and ideas. 
	 In conjunction with the unveiling of my.SAP, SAP rolled out Release 2.0 of
SAP Business Information Warehouse, which is available via role-based
mySAP.com Workplace portals customized for the data needs of employees. The
offering allows companies to engage employees, partners, and customers for
information analysis and Web-reporting capabilities. 
	 SAP also introduced Release 2.0 of SAP Strategic Enterprise Management, a
fully Web-enabled analytical application that covers processes from business
planning through performance management and stakeholder communication. The
new release includes extended functionality, such as Balanced Scorecards,
integrated planning and simulation, and sourcing of external unstructured
information (competitor news and industry information, for example). 
	 In addition, SAP and Telstra formed a strategic alliance to combine SAP's
mySAP.com inter-enterprise applications with Telstra's infrastructure and
connectivity for delivery of mySAP.com Marketplace, application hosting
services, and collaborative business scenarios to businesses in South Asia,
New Zealand, and Australia. The deal is intended to create a collaborative
business portal to help companies lower costs and improve efficiency in
customer relationships and across supply chains. 
	 SAP and Germany's Deutsche Bank agreed to jointly provide financial and
trading services to enable collaborative e-business based on my.SAP
Marketplace technology. Among services Deutsche Bank will contribute are
trust services, payment services for transactions between business partners,
and escrow services for payments through a trustee account. The blending of
customer bases and expertise is intended to afford enterprises the
advantages of a large number of buyers and sellers, reduced transaction
costs, and increased level of transparency.
	 The two largest publicly traded US hospital chains unveiled ventures aimed
at simplifying supply chain structure. Tenet Healthcare and its e-commerce
partner Ventro established Broadlane, which is developing an electronic
marketplace initially targeting the group purchasing organizations (GPOs) of
Tenet hospitals. Columbia/HCA Healthcare invested $40 million in online
procurement firm empactHealth.com, which plans an electronic ordering system
for services and items that are not maintained in regular inventory. The
company also plans to add a catalog with extensive offerings of medical and
surgical supplies. Each healthcare firm hopes to cut costs by transforming
its supply chain from the existing complicated web of manufacturers,
distributors, and GPOs to a streamlined system with a centralized online
marketplace.
	 E-business applications maker Trilogy Software collaborated with Ford
	 Motor in the establishment of a yet-to-be-named company that will direct
Ford.com and all dealer sites in delivering personalized vehicle
information to the consumer for the duration of car ownership. Ford, which
uses Trilogy pricing and configuration applications on its buying site,
will combine Trilogy's software and e-commerce platform for content
management, needs analysis, and CRM for the new venture. In a similar move,
i2 Technologies struck a deal with Toyota to provide software (including
its TradeMatrix system), implementation, and support in the construction of
an online marketplace, iStarXchange, for automotive replacement parts.
Toyota and i2 will divide equity shares in the joint venture, with Toyota
owning a majority stake.

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