Manufacturing Business Technology - March 1, 2001

Mountain View, Calif.-based Ariba, a business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce platform and network services provider, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Agile Software Corp., a San Jose, Calif.-based provider of collaborative commerce solutions, in a stock-for-stock merger.Under terms of the agreement, each share of Agile common stock will be converted into 1.

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• A complete vision for e-Business
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• E-manufacturing with an "i"
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