FreeMarkets Improves Performance of Online Auctions Using SQL Server and Windows Datacenter Server
White Papers FreeMarkets needed near-100-percent reliability to satisfy customer demand. To power the world's leading Business-to-Business (B2B) e-marketplace, FreeMarkets relies on Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers, including Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter...
[December 2, 2008, 23:00]
SQL Server 2000 Provides a Scalable, Reliable Back End to FreeMarkets' E-Marketplace
White Papers FreeMarkets is the leading B2B e-marketplace, connecting buyers from the world's largest companies with suppliers from around the globe. FreeMarkets' technology and services have revolutionized the purchase of the goods and services that make up...
[December 2, 2008, 23:00]
The Day Ahead: B2B companies should deliver strong quarters
News FreeMarkets: The company, which helps customers procure parts, materials and commodities via auctions, is expected to lose 40 cents a share in its second quarter, according to First Call. Commerce One, FreeMarkets, PurchasePro.com, VerticalNet are...
[July 11, 2000, 12:00]
Auto marketplace calls time on auction arm
News FreeMarkets, an online business-to-business services company based in Pittsburgh, is the buyer; terms of the deal were not disclosed. The sale of our auction services to FreeMarkets is a logical and evolutionary step as we continue to focus our...
[January 2, 2004, 9:05]
Momentum trading cuts both ways
News FreeMarkets shocked investors Tuesday when it reported General Motors was taking its business to Commerce One. FreeMarkets plunged 19 percent on Tuesday, 12 percent Wednesday and slipped again on Thursday and Friday.
[January 10, 2000, 11:44]
The Day Ahead: You'll have a cow over this B2B IPO
News Sounds good so far, especially given the performance of VerticalNet, CommerceOne, FreeMarkets and others. There's a new B2B stock on deck and investors might just have a cow over the IPO of eMerge Interactive.
[February 2, 2000, 11:36]
ASPs tapping into lucrative B2B market
News Just this week, B2B marketplace provider FreeMarkets announced it is taking on the role of an ASP, renting new software for building marketplaces to companies on a subscription basis. As application service providers struggle to find new customers...
[February 16, 2001, 12:24]
The Day Ahead: Questions cloud IPO market
News Highflyers such as FreeMarkets, Qualcomm and plenty of others have been hit by choppy trading. A bullish outlook has been tempered by a glut of new issues, market volatility and too many "me too" offerings.
[January 21, 2000, 14:07]
The Day Ahead: Girth is golden in the B2B market
News Customers know a lot more about Oracle than they do a company like FreeMarkets or Ariba. Once you peel away all the pyrotechnics about "the largest in the history of the software industry", this merger is really about being big in terms of...
[March 14, 2000, 12:01]
The Day Ahead: Everybody wants to be B2B
News Just look at shares of Ariba, PurchasePro.com, FreeMarkets and the rest of the B2B bunch. On Tuesday, SBC Communications made one of the more creative moves we've seen from a Baby Bell -- it bought Sterling Commerce.
[February 23, 2000, 11:57]
The Day Ahead: Why some consortia B2B exchanges won't work
News That's why shares of B2B incubator Internet Capital Group, VerticalNet, CommerceOne, FreeMarkets, Ariba and a host of others have come down from nosebleed heights. Seems like every industry giant these days is forming a business-to-business e...
[May 15, 2000, 12:14]
Women leaders? Not in our boardroom
News Companies without women board members included AMC Entertainment, Ameritrade, Clear Channel, CNET Networks, DoubleClick, E*Trade, FreeMarkets, IDT, Knight Trading Group, The Washington Post Co.and Yahoo!
[August 28, 2002, 8:59]
The Day Ahead: B2bstores.com's buzzword abuse
News B2bstores.com, which lost more than $2m since inception, mostly because of stock compensation plans, said it plans to become a one-stop business-to-business commerce stop just like PurchasePro.com, VerticalNet, FreeMarkets, Ariba and Commerce One.
[January 13, 2000, 12:13]
The Day Ahead: Ariba pays up for sales-impaired startup
News The company cited Ariba, FreeMarkets, VerticalNet and Commerce One all as potential competitors. Find a well-heeled acquirer such as Ariba to fork over $581m and sell out. Ariba said after the closing bell Monday it would acquire privately held...
[June 27, 2000, 11:48]
