Cathleen Moore

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Incubating in the standards process for several years, the WebDAV protocol has been steadily making its way into the everyday tools of business users and stands poised to transform how users interact with the Internet.

The vendors are responding to a customer need to control the publishing of content from Domino and WebSphere platforms out to the Internet, intranets and extranets.

Once neatly under the thumb of a few pure-play software vendors, the enterprise portal market is exploding, attracting offerings from infrastructure, services and software heavyweights.

Once neatly under the thumb of a few pure-play software vendors, the enterprise portal market is exploding, attracting offerings from infrastructure, services, and software heavyweights. Heating up the application infrastructure pickings, Tibco Software Inc. this week will announce ActivePortal 3, a portal framework for integrating business information from internal and external resources. Meanwhile, BEA Systems Inc. and Divine Interventures Inc. are readying portal platforms for release later this month.

Once a high-ticket novelty for only the healthiest of large enterprise budgets, videoconferencing price points are dropping, opening the door to a variety of industries to use it as a communication tool to cut costs and ramp up employee productivity.

Plumtree Software spruced up its enterprise portal offering with the addition of a wireless server, network search functionality and a redesigned user interface.

Offering enterprises hope for digesting the exploding volume of internal and external content, search-and-categorization technologies are pushing into enterprises to become essential elements of corporate portal infrastructure to power other content-driven applications.