Business@Web Inc has already caught the attention of the SAP America Inc arm of SAP AG – and its former chief executive (CI No 2,853) – and now the Cambridge, Massachusetts company has attracted the attention of Hewlett-Packard Co. Hewlett is to make an undisclosed equity investment in Business@Web, and the two will do joint marketing and Internet consulting. As part of the marketing agreement, Hewlett’s Professional Services Organization and Business@Web will begin joint delivery component-based Internet offerings to their customers using Business@Web’s OpenScape software. OpenScape is designed for extending mainframe and client-server applications both across private intranets and over the public Internet.
