Commerce One and Intel cooperate for ecommerce

The companies will jointly establish an engineering lab to test and improve Commerce One's e-procurement and e-marketplace products to support current and future Intel platforms.

Sean Maloney, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Intel, said it was a natural step for the company to work with Commerce One and claimed the alliance will bring together resources that allow security, scalability, reliability and a low cost of ownership.

Chuck Donchess, chief strategy officer for Commerce One, said: "E-marketplaces have to scale to handle the billions of dollars in transactions that 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 e-marketplaces."

Intel has an existing relationship with Commerce One as the company's One Global Trading Web runs on Intel architecture. Commerce One currently runs on Pentium platforms and testing has begun for the next generation Intel platform, Itanium, due next year.

By Barbara Morgan