<P>New Generation Software has launched the NGS Business Intelligence Smart Start Program, designed to assist its NGS-IQ customers in developing a project roadmap for data warehousing and business intelligence.
<P>Magic Software Enterprises has introduced eMerchant, a business-to-business e-commerce solution particularly suited for businesses having large inventories, high volumes of transactions and substantial amounts of repetitive business with regular customers.
<P>IBM distributor and Lotus Notes Business Partner Hall-Mark Global Solutions [HMGS]-- the former JBA Computer Solutions Division -- has launched a Lotus Notes/Domino-based e-business marketing program.
<P>Precision Software has signed a worldwide patent license with Turn of the Century Solutions.
<P>IBM has announced broad platform support for Linux, the open-source version of Unix that's rapidly gaining devotees.
<P>Analysts International Corp., a Minneapolis-based IT services company, has acquired Phoenix-based AS/400 tools and services provider Real World Training Systems.
<P>Dimensional Insight (Burlington, Mass.) has released version 3.0 of DI-Diver, the end user interface for its data warehouse and data mart software.