Northern Light Sold

[gary price]

Another day means more news from Northern Light.
Today, word that the company has been sold to divine, inc.

News Release Highlights
http://www.northernlight.com/docs/press_company_pr02_0122.html
"CHICAGO/CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Jan. 22, 2002 - divine, inc., (Nasdaq: DVIN), a
premier integrated solution provider focused on the extended enterprise, today
announced that it has acquired certain assets of privately held Northern Light®
Technology LLC, a leading provider of search and content integration solutions for
enterprises, in an all-stock transaction. Terms of the deal were not
disclosed."... "Merging content with the technologies that find and manage it is a
logical next step in the development of content-related applications," said Susan
Feldman, director of content and retrieval software research at IDC.

"In the past year, divine has acquired content management vendors such as Eprise
and Open Market, and information aggregators such as RoweCom and Sagemaker. Search
was the missing piece. By closely integrating search and content management with a
collection of high-quality information sources, divine offers enterprises a single
point of entry into both their internal information sources and the external ones
that are strategically necessary to their survival. Integrated solutions enable an
enterprise to develop an integrated information strategy based on the particular
needs and processes of their organization. Workflow, categorization, tagging,
publishing, search, and information analysis can now become one seamless process
that builds a strong foundation for knowledge work. divine now has a strong
offering that will make other content-related software vendors and content
aggregators sit up and take notice."

See Also: "divine Buys Northern Light" (via Internet.Com)
http://boston.internet.com/news/article/0,1928,2001_958791,00.html




cheers,
gary



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