Business software maker SAP AG has agreed to acquire TopTier Software, a portal software company, for $400 million. The cash deal, which is expected to be finalized in the second quarter, will make TopTier a wholly owned subsidiary of SAP. TopTier reported revenue in 2000 of just $20 million, 20 times less than its purchase price. SAP says Top Tier's technology will be integrated into its mySAP Workplace product line. The acquisition will provide SAP with TopTier customers, including DaimlerChrysler and Hewlett-Packard, enabling the German company to compete with Oracle and Siebel Systems in the enterprise portal market.

Security vendor Tripwire has announced Tripwire for Web Pages, software for the Apache Web server that prevents tampering with Web site content. The software lets users create a digital hash of the Web pages. Every time a Web page is requested by a user, Tripwire for Web Pages checks the hash. The software costs $1,095 and is available now.

Tripwire: www.tripwire.com.

BroadVision has announced the latest version of its e-business application platform, BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise 6.0, and formed a partnership with Informix Software. One-To-One Enterprise 6.0 adds Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition support, including support for Enterprise JavaBeans component architecture, JavaServer Pages technology and Java Servlet APIs. BroadVision's new platform includes enhanced debugging tools. Also, Informix says it has ported BroadVision's new release to IDS 9, providing an online transaction-processing platform.

Informix: www.informix.com; BroadVision: www.broadvision.com

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