Commerce One Conducts Its Soul-Searching Metamorphosis
P.J. Jakovljevic - April 24, 2003

Event Summary

One vendor that has lately had more than a fair share of troubles, and that is still reeling from the effects of plummeting market capitalization (with a tenfold reverse stock split), multiple severe rounds of layoffs, excruciatingly painful losses, and an eroding corporate image, has been also making notable strides to reform itself, or, at least, to sell its skin more dearly. On March 24, Commerce One (NASDAQ: CMRC), one of the pioneers in Internet-based software applications that once managed the world's largest e-commerce trading network, which has consistently strived to be at the forefront of delivering advanced technologies that help global businesses collaborate with their partners, customers and suppliers over the Internet, announced the general availability of Commerce One Conductor, its new composite application platform. Based on open industry standards, the Conductor platform's aimed charter is to transform and accelerate the way applications and business processes are deployed within and between enterprises, and it should supposedly allow organizations to more quickly and easily create, connect, and coordinate business processes between customers and trading partners without being limited by the constraints of existing applications or platforms...