Divine Intervention: Acquisition Of eshare Approved.

divine, inc., a provider of enterprise collaboration and interaction solutions, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire eshare communications, Inc., a provider of customer interaction management (CIM) solutions. The proposed terms call for a stock-for-stock merger agreement, expected to close by the end of September 2001. divine's chairman and CEO Andrew "Flip" Filipowski said, "A critical component of divine's strategy is providing net-native, community-facing applications and Web services combined with professional services and managed applications capabilities that promote interaction and collaboration among all of an enterprises business communities and fully integrate with their core systems. eshare's offerings, combined with our existing collaborative applications, portal technology, Web services infrastructure, knowledge resources and delivery capability, will give our global combined customer base the ability to deploy community-facing applications capable of enhancing the customer's brand and building loyalty within their targeted communities:" divine also announced its intent to acquire RoweCom, Inc., a provider of service and e-commerce solutions for purchasing and managing print and e-content knowledge resources.