One focuses on financial data and the other on portal technology. While sharing ownership, with both Cisco and Reuters as investors, the two sides of the company maintain a high degree of autonomy. Building on its association with Reuters and its skills at data delivery, the company developed and sold portal technology. Everything, says Ackly. But portals are easy.
Portals get their foot in the door.
It's almost a Trojan Horse product. Ackly thinks it will continue to press into the infrastructure business, as more and more IT people discover they need one. But whatever direction the company takes, says Meyer, it will continue to stress low-impact, distributed architectures. That's because we don't want a big cherry red box smoking in the middle of everything.