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Amid negative third-quarter results and the resignation of its chairman, Informix Corp. this week split into two independent companies.

Hewlett-Packard's e-services division this week announced that it is private labelling Corporate Yahoo to offer its customers single windows access to internal and external data.

Five federal systems integrators have chosen Viador Inc.'s E-Portal Suite as the platform they will use to serve their government customers, Viador announced this week.

Phoenix-based InfoImage Inc. hopes that cozying up to Microsoft Corp. will seal its transition from service provider to corporate portal vendor.

With the e-commerce market exploding, portals are becoming a key element in bringing together an enterprise's employees, business partners, and customers through one interface. For this reason, portals are rapidly expanding into the b-to-c (business-to-consumer), b-to-b (business-to-business), and business-to-employee arenas.

Every software vendor in the online knowledge management space defines its enterprise portal server differently. But a few components tie all of them together: online document collaboration, centralized access and searching of far-flung data resources, and document publishing. Pricing on Plumtree Software Inc.'s Corporate Portal Server starts at $150,000, and Sequoia Software Inc.'s Interchange 2000 starts at $50,000 per server. Gyphica Inc.'s PortalWare costs $225,000, and Viador Inc.'s E-Portal Suite starts at $125,000.

Now that intranets and extranets are an acknowledged way to improve corporate productivity, and Internet portals, such as Yahoo, have proven a huge hit with consumers, software vendors are attempting to combine the best of both ideas in the form of corporate portals.