- Thu Feb 1 2001 Commentary: B2B vendors jockey for position
Ariba's purchase of Agile Software provides the company with the capabilities to support collaborative manufacturing in Net markets, giving it a cleaner entry into the manufacturing sector.
- Sat Jan 6 2001 THE DAY AHEAD: What''s next for B2B
- Wed Apr 9 2003 Commentary: Making manufacturing flexible
By 2008, companies will connect physical shop-floor assets to enterprise applications using "X Internet" technologies that sense, analyze and control events in the physical world.

