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Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2000, 1:28 PM -0500
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Subject: Faulkner Systems Flash 03/15/2000 - (Part 1 of 2)

Top of the News

	 i2 Technologies and Aspect Development, a provider of collaborative
offerings for B2B marketplaces, reported a definitive agreement to merge in
a stock-for-stock deal valued at $9.3 billion. i2 will acquire all of
Aspect's outstanding stock and stock options. Aspect shareholders will own
approximately 18 percent of the combined company. Aspect will become a
subsidiary of i2 with Aspect chairman and CEO Ramesh Wadhwani becoming vice
chairman of i2. In addition, i2 entered into a definitive agreement to
acquire Supplybase, a provider of offerings for Web-based product design and
sourcing of custom parts and assemblies. i2 will issue or reserve for
issuance approximately 1.8 million shares of i2 common stock, valued at
approximately $380 million, for all outstanding stock and stock options of
Supplybase.

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Alliances/Joint Ventures 
	 AOL unveiled a five-year, $60 million strategic alliance with
HomeGrocer.com, which makes the firm its Internet grocer of choice across
its AOL, CompuServe, AOL.COM, Netscape Netcenter, Digital City, AOL
MovieFone and Oxygen.com brands. 
	 Also, AOL and Oxygen Media expanded their relationship through a
	 multi-year anchor tenancy and promotional agreement. Oxygen will be an
anchor tenant in five AOL Channels, including AOL's Health and
Entertainment Channels. Additionally, Oxygen and AOL will build a
co-branded Web site for women and engage in offline cross-promotion. 
	 In addition, AOL and RTS Wireless sealed a licensing agreement under which
RTS will provide AOL its Advantage suite of wireless data and text-to-voice
software and related consulting services. RTS Wireless software will be used
to provide wireless access to AOL e-mail and content over personal paging
devices and digital mobile phones.
	 Computer Associates and Beijing Anyi, a large state-owned accounting and
ERP software company in China, unveiled a joint venture that will provide
eBusiness products and services to enterprise management customers. The
offerings include Internet-based accounting, financial management and
supply-chain management products, and business management and customer
service tools, as well as other logistics applications. 
	 Also, Computer Associates and Korea Telecom Hitel, an ISP in South Korea,
unveiled a joint venture targeting the ASP market. The venture will deliver
select management applications and services to different business divisions
over the Internet. Clients will be charged based on system usage. 
	 In addition, Computer Associates and Cable & Wireless HKT unveiled a joint
venture to create an ASP in Hong Kong that will deliver eBusiness products
and services via broadband network access. The company will market Web-based
business software applications to small- to medium-sized businesses and
medium-sized corporations. 
	 Finally, Computer Associates, the Institute for Information Industry
	 (III), and Union Group, Taiwan, formed "eBizServe." The joint venture
targets the global B2B trading infrastructure, and will build an eBusiness
trading Web site with the goal of creating a global B2B trading environment
in Taiwan. 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. Getronics agreed to partner with World Online International
	 to offer e-business services. The companies plan to concentrate on
application hosting, intranets, and data center construction. The
partnership will initially focus on Europe, with plans calling for global
expansion. Hewlett-Packard struck a deal with Grupo Financiero Banorte to
	 provide e-business services to the Latin American market. In addition to
cross-selling products and services, HP and Banorte will form a joint
venture to develop online marketplaces in the region. 
	 Also, HP and PSINet reported plans to offer hosted, business-class
messaging and collaboration e-services. The Global Enterprise Messaging
Service (GEMS) will first be available from all of PSINet's major European
offices and later will be extended throughout the world.
	 IBM agreed to work with AT&T and Lycos to deliver a broadband-enabled
Internet appliance and services to Fidelity Investments customers. Services
are expected to be available by the end of June 2000 and will include online
investment planning tools, customized content, online trading, Web surfing,
e-mailing, Lycos content, and others.
	 Lycos and Intel began providing Tripod ShowMotion, a suite of multimedia
tools, for free to both Tripod and Intel WebOutfitter Service members.
According to Lycos, Tripod is the only major publishing site on the Web to
offer free streaming services to its members. 
	 Also, Lycos Asia, a joint venture between Lycos and Singapore Telecom
(SingTel), launched Lycos Malaysia, a localized Lycos site. Lycos Malaysia
features search and navigation, local news and content, homepage building
from Tripod, free e-mail from MailCity and personalization capability of the
localized portal with My Lycos.
	 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 Honeywell formed a strategic alliance to promote and
enhance Honeywell's MyPlant.com. Microsoft made an equity investment in
MyPlant.com as part of the deal. MyPlant.com will use Microsoft Windows DNA
2000, a platform for building and deploying distributed applications for
business over the Internet. Microsoft services, including the MSN network,
will be linked to MyPlant.com. 
	 In addition, Microsoft reported an agreement with Yahoo! that allows
members of Yahoo! Geocities to save Microsoft Office 2000 documents to their
personal home pages. 
	 Microsoft joined Gilat Satellite Networks in plans to provide consumer
two-way satellite broadband service. The companies claim that this is first
time that two companies have teamed up to offer consumers high-speed
Internet access via two-way satellite. Trials of the service have begun, and
wide availability of service is expected by the end of 2000. Gilat formed a
new company, Gilat-To-Home, to deliver the service. Microsoft plans to
invest $50 million in Gilat-To-Home, and to hold a 26 percent stake in the
company. 
	 Microsoft and GoldMine also reported a business alliance that includes an
agreement to embed Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 as the standard data base
available for GoldMine's FrontOffice 2000 CRM suite. 
	 Finally, Microsoft reported an agreement with FirstWorld, a provider of
Internet services and data center products, 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 signed value-added reseller agreements with InterMedia and Beverage
Marketing Technologies (BMT), two developers of interactive kiosk marketing
packages. NCR estimates the agreements will result in orders for 6,000 to
7,000 web kiosks over the next three years. 
	 Also, NCR and Sterling Commerce reported a global marketing alliance to
provide an integrated portfolio of image-based core check processing
products to the financial industry. The marketing alliance will permit NCR
and Sterling Commerce to be able 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. 
	 In addition, 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.
	 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.
	 Chevron, McLane Company (a subsidiary of Wal-Mart ), and Oracle intend to
create a joint venture called RetailersMarketXchange.com, an independent
company which will offer an Internet trade exchange designed as a
full-service marketplace for convenience stores and small-business retailers
and their suppliers. The marketplace is expected to go live this summer.
	 Prodigy and Covad signed an agreement to provide Covad's high-speed DSL
service to Prodigy consumer Internet customers in areas where Covad supplies
DSL service.
	 Radiant Systems and Microsoft joined forces to develop and market an
integrated Web-enabled management system and supply chain software package
to enable retailers to conduct business-to-business e-commerce over the
Internet.
	 SAS and B2Emarkets entered into a partnership for strategic sourcing. The
agreement will enhance the SAS Solution for Supplier Relationship Management
(SRM) and B2E's Strategic eSourcing Management (SeSM) product. The two
companies will develop a combined suite that incorporates both activities,
and will support each other's sales and marketing efforts.
	 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.
	 TurboLinux and Linksys struck a deal that bundles the TurboLinux platform
on Linksys' Ethernet products offered in North America. Over the next year,
the companies expect to ship 1.2 million Linux-based networking products,
including switches, hubs, and routers.
	 Unisys and Phone.com reported that Unisys will use Phone.com's UP.Link
Server Suite as part of its global wireless offering portfolio. The
agreement enables Unisys to market full WAP compliant wireless offerings to
the world's wireless operators.

Application Service Providers 
	 OpenConnect began licensing its i-Ware e-commerce suite to ASPs for rental
over the Internet. i-Ware includes components for supply chain management,
e-commerce, and communications.
	 SCO unveiled Tarantella ASP Edition, an application broker designed to
enable clients to access applications on other systems regardless of the
platforms being used. Marketed to ASPs, Tarantella ASP Edition competes with
Citrix's products. It is being offered to ASPs on a rental basis.

Chip Technology News
	 AMD won the race to 1GHz, becoming the first chipmaker to ship processors
that can execute one billion clock cycles in a second without any form of
overclocking.

Data Base Management Systems 
	 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 IT the ability to
proactively publish data warehouse information and track its usage, plus
manage the process of change in the data warehouse. 
	 In addition, SAS introduced the SAS Solution for e-Intelligence, software
and services aimed at CRM. The flagship offering, e-Discovery, addresses
customer and supplier relationships. This offering helps organizations to
increase the likelihood of response to targeted promotions by basing
marketing programs on target-group information gathered from multiple
contact points.

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 has committed itself to supporting the Microsoft
Data Warehousing Framework 2000, an open architecture for building business
intelligence and analytical applications based on the open standards and
services built into the Windows 2000 operating system, Microsoft SQL Server
and Microsoft Office 2000.
	 NCR unveiled a suite of data warehouse outsourcing products--Optimized
Outsourcing for Data Warehousing--to help companies build stronger customer
relationships. The first offer, Operational Excellence, is available
immediately and 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 data base based on Linux.

Electronic Business 
	 Ariba and airline industry IT services provider Sabre Holdings reported an
agreement to collaborate on Sabre e-Marketplace, a B2B marketplace for the
travel and transportation industry. Based on the global Ariba B2B eCommerce
platform, the procurement exchange is designed to offer services such as
multi-level approval and routing workflow, RFP/RFQ, expense reporting,
content and catalog management tools, dynamic pricing, logistics
capabilities, reporting and analytical tools, payment services, and back-end
integration to ERP systems. 
	 Also, Ariba and Entrust Technologies entered into an agreement to
	 integrate Entrust e-business offerings within Ariba's global e-commerce
platform to ensure secure transactions and communications between B2B
buyers and suppliers. In addition, Ariba agreed to bundle Entrust security
software to provide trusted transactions for Ariba's ORMS and ORMX lines of
B2B procurement products. 
	 Clarify released eFrontOffice 9.0, an integrated CRM and e-business suite
designed to enable customers to interact with companies via the medium of
their choice. It is designed to offer a portal that gives customers a single
place to go to order and configure products, check the status of orders and
support requests, and review promotions via Clarify's Customer Portal,
eOrder, eConfigurator, eMerchandizing, and eResponse Manager.
	 CSC introduced a Web hosting service that will target medium-sized and
large customers.
	 IBM introduced its DecisionEdge Campaign Management module, a tool
	 designed to allow companies to divide customer information into segments,
enabling businesses to customize advertisements and forward them to
customers through telemarketing, direct mail, and face-to-face contact. It
operates in conjunction with the DB2 Intelligent Miner for Relationship
Marketing, tracking responses of specific market segments to marketing
campaigns, analyzing issues such as customer loyalty and retention, and
recommending offers most likely to elicit customer interest. 
	 Also, IBM, i2 Technologies, and Ariba formed a strategic alliance designed
to deliver an end-to-end product for B2B e-commerce and collaboration. The
firms will integrate technologies, as well as global marketing and selling
of targeted offerings. In addition, IBM will make an equity investment in i2
and Ariba.
	 Oracle, Chevron, and Wal-Mart reported an agreement to join forces in
establishing an online marketplace, RetailersMarketXchange.com, targeting
the convenience store industry. Based on Oracle's e-business platform, the
exchange will connect convenience stores to suppliers. The three founding
companies will each hold an equity stake in the venture. 
	 Oracle also revealed multimedia enhancements to its e-business suite.
Oracle eMail Center, Oracle Collections and Oracle Scripting are new modules
in the upcoming Oracle Applications Release 11i. Key features include
Interaction History, which tracks every customer interaction regardless of
channel or media; Universal Work Queue, which manages and prioritizes an
agent's queue of all incoming and outgoing communications; and Interaction
Center Intelligence, which offers quantitative and qualitative business
intelligence.
	 PeopleSoft rolled out its Professional Services Automation (PSA) software,
which is designed to facilitate the management of financial and human
resources for the professional services market. It manages billing,
contracts, and invoices; offers opportunity and service-resource management,
including project proposals and planning; and matches employee skills with
positions. 
	 Following completion of its Vantive acquisition, PeopleSoft introduced
Vantive eBusiness applications for CRM, which enable users within and
outside of an enterprise to access business information anytime, anywhere,
by means of a browser and Internet access. Vantive eSales is intended to
enhance both customer relationships and sales productivity by enabling
access to the Vantive Enterprise CRM offering. In addition, Vantive's
Internet-architected service offerings are designed to improve customer
retention by allowing users to initiate, track, and rectify product issues
through a pure-browser interface. 
         Also, PeopleSoft and Novell entered into an agreement, whereby
PeopleSoft will bundle Novell's cross-platform NDS eDirectory with
PeopleSoft 8 eBusiness applications. The deal is intended to enable
PeopleSoft's customers to reduce cross-enterprise network administration
costs by allowing information systems managers to unify employee, customer,
and partner directories and passwords through existing business processes,
while enabling users to access all PeopleSoft eBusiness applications via a
single profile.
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