Vignette, Intel team for e-commerce

NEW YORK - Intel has teamed with Vignette to bring the software company's V/5 suite to Pentium, Xeon and Itanium-based servers.

Intel and Vignette will ensure that the V/Series will be optimized for servers based on current and future Xeon, Pentium III and forthcoming Itanium processor technology, said Paul Otellini, Intel executive vice president and general manager of the chip giant's Architecture Group.

The idea is that both companies can reduce e-business application development costs and cycle time by providing packaged software solutions powered by Intel-based servers.

The Vignette suite of products is designed to support high-volume transaction exchanges tying suppliers and "e-tailers" running Web-based businesses, and to reduce deployment time for those systems, Otellini said.

"We are launching an alliance with Vignette to essentially develop cookbooks for solution stacks across industries . . . with little consulting fees," Otellini said.

Intel and Vignette will work to ensure that the V/5 series is optimized to run on Intel processing technology, allowing the development of industry-specific applications that use - as a back-end platform -V/5 software together with Intel-based servers, he said.

Vignette also recently signed a deal with IBM that will let the two companies jointly market and sell Vignette's V/5 e-business applications with IBM's WebSphere server software. IBM and Vignette said the integration of Vignette's e-business software and IBM's WebSphere will let customers handle transaction exchanges with suppliers and partners on the Web.

Intel, www.intel.com
Vignette: www.vignette.com

Ferranti is a correspondent with the IDG News Service in New York.