IONA and KnowledgeTrack Announce Licensing and Development Agreement
WALTHAM, Mass. and PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 2000--
Components of KnowledgeTrack's Portal Solution to Be Integrated with
IONA's iPortal Server(TM); KnowledgeTrack to License IONA's iPortal
Application Server(TM) Technology
IONA Technologies(TM) (NASDAQ: IONA - news) and KnowledgeTrack(TM) Corporation today announced a multi-million dollar licensing and development arrangement involving IONA's iPortal Suite(TM) and KnowledgeTrack's Knowledge Center that will allow the companies to exchange best of breed portal and application server technologies.
Under the licensing agreements, IONA will incorporate portal and community engine technology from KnowledgeTrack's portal platform solution into the IONA iPortal Server, providing organizations with publishing, document management, calendar, discussion and meeting planning capabilities. Additionally, KnowledgeTrack will license IONA's iPortal Application Server, and will make it available to its customers who purchase the Knowledge Center portal platform.
``We think KnowledgeTrack's front-end portal technology is among the best available today, and we're pleased to incorporate their offerings into the iPortal Server,' said Chris Horn, chairman and CEO of IONA. ``Our agreement with KnowledgeTrack enhances the value of the iPortal Server for organizations utilizing portals for knowledge management in the B2B marketplace.'
``IONA's iPortal Application Server was built with the needs of Internet enterprises in mind,' said Jack Porter, KnowledgeTrack CEO. ``Built from the ground up on the J2EE and EJB 1.1 standards, IONA's iPortal Application Server is a truly scalable platform for building distributed, enterprise portal applications, and we're pleased to make this functionality available with our KnowledgeTrack offerings.'
``A key challenge for the next phase of portal deployments focuses on delivering scalable integration to support e-business interactions,' explains Hadley Reynolds, research director at The Delphi Group. ``Today's announcement solidifies both companies' leadership in offering their customers exceptional flexibility in selecting world class e-infrastructure to power their portal applications.'
As part of the agreement, IONA has also licensed KnowledgeTrack's Java-enabled presentation technology and components that enable third-party integration for distributed security management and for content classification. These components will be available as plug-ins to the IONA iPortal Server. |
