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Open Market partners Compaq

Compaq has become a reseller and systems integrator for the IPS content management application from Open Market. The company will use its Professional Services arm to offer "completely integrated Internet content management solutions", according to a statement. Compaq said it would focus initially on the financial services, telecommunications and pharmaceutical industries.

Pointcast casts for last time

Pointcast, one of the pioneers of what has now become content management, has made its last broadcast of its "push technology" service.

The Pointcast Network, which was a subscription service for news and other content which was sent continuously over the Internet, was one of the first demonstrations of the power of the Net to change the way people accessed information. The company sent out an email to its users in February announcing the last broadcast over the network.

Pointcast has now been taken over by a small firm called Idealab, which has turned its technology into a toolbar product which delivers personalised news and stock quotes.

Fusion event

Lotus Development is holding a user conference to build on its global Lotusphere event to showcase the IBM way to construct intranet and knowledge management solutions.

Keynote speakers include Lotus CTO Nick Shelness, and three tracks of break-out sessions cover application development, e-business solutions, IT strategy and infrastructure. An exhibition will also include Lotus partners demonstrating applications built on the Domino platform.

The conference runs from March 28 to 30 at the Conrad Jupiters hotel on the Gold Coast.