Browse past tech stock questions and answers in the Ask Matt archive . Starbase makes software that lets companies manage teams of people developing e-business software. For instance, in December a company that develops billing systems for telecom companies said it would be using Starbase's software. The software is designed to help companies reduce the time and cost required to build new software. He says Internet software is getting more and more difficult to develop, and thus that collaboration software is becoming more important.
Investors seem a little less convinced.
And the company continues to lose money, not a positive in a market where investors demand profits. Interwoven is in a slightly different field. Its software is used more to manage the information that's on a company's Web site. Interwoven, like Starbase, isn't profitable. But its loss is much smaller as a percentage of revenue.