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Technology Stocks : BroadVision (BVSN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: paul who wrote (716)	9/27/1998 8:41:00 AM
From: Joan Main	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3773

Actually, I don't think that Vignette is a direct competitor with Broadvision. Vignette has a far less complex product that allows rapid deployment of conventional, content management sites. It also has a work flow component that simplifies the process of getting content to the web. They use the TCL scripting language for most of their server side logic. So a company like Nike or Sybase might use the Vignette product for one or two of their Web Sites. BroadVision offers more of enterprise wide approach. They employ CORBA, C++ and Java to implement thier distributed architecture. Their systems are used to interconnect a variety of corporate data sources and merge them into an e-commerce application. BroadVision also packages specific functional or vertical solutions for their customers. Where, Vignette, on the other hand, just provides a rapid development tool to replace the old CGI scripting process. A typical Vignette license might go for under 100K, but a BroadVision license could run into the millions. Is Vignette planning a public offering? They are very good a what they do and would be worth taking a look at.