Commerce One and Intel form alliance to work together on open, scalable e-commerce offerings

Intel Corporation and Commerce One, Inc, a leading provider of global e-commerce solutions for businesses, today announced the formation of a three year alliance to deliver highly-scalable e-commerce solutions through tight integration and optimization of Intel`s technologies and Commerce One`s e-commerce solutions. The agreement includes the formation of a joint engineering laboratory and a joint marketing fund, further extending Commerce One`s successful relationship with Intel.

Commerce One and Intel will establish an engineering laboratory at the Commerce One Cupertino campus, where the two companies will jointly test and optimize Commerce One`s e-procurement and e-marketplace solutions to ensure that they are fine-tuned for deployment on current and future Intel platforms such as Intel`s Itanium architecture. Commerce One`s customers and partners will be able to easily scale and grow their marketplaces on Intel architecture as they continue to increase transaction volume. Additionally, the companies will collaborate on multiple engineering projects that will take advantage of the pioneering work Intel is doing to provide the building blocks to the Internet economy.

"Intel architecture currently powers Commerce One`s Global Trading Web partner e-Marketplaces, so it was a natural step to work with Commerce One to continue to build best of class e-commerce solutions," said Sean Maloney, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Intel. "This alliance brings together resources that will allow customers to take full advantage of e-commerce efficiencies such as security, scalability, and reliability, as well as a low total cost of ownership."

"E-marketplaces have to scale to handle the billions of dollars in transactions that leading companies want to move onto the Worldwide Web. We believe our work with Intel and other industry leaders such as Microsoft, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard is key to supporting the tremendous volume of transactions that will come across these e-marketplaces," said Chuck Donchess, chief strategy officer for Commerce One. "Our work with Intel further demonstrates our commitment to deliver open, scalable e-commerce solutions that allow businesses to trade with anyone, anytime, anywhere in the world."