Sterling Commerce announced an agreement to acquire Comergent Technologies for approximately $155 million in cash. Sterling Commerce plans to incorporate Comergent products to provide customers with a unified end-to-end order fulfillment solution across the extended supply chain.

ATG announced that according to a survey ATG co-sponsored with Internet Retailer Magazine, Web retailers expect the 2006 holiday season to drive above-average online holiday traffic and sales. Nearly all of the approximately 300 respondents expect holiday sales to grow this year, and over one third anticipate holiday Web sales to grow by 20 percent or more.

Brainware announces that the advanced search and classification capabilities of Brainware's Globalbrain have been incorporated into Attensity's new release of its Text Analytics suite, Attensity 4, available next month. Globalbrain brings information search and classification functions to Attensity's applications, used by Global 2000 and government customers to create actionable information for better and faster decision making from text information.

GMT announced that Zions Bancorporation is among the first to take advantage of new dashboard functions in the new release of the GMT Planet, version 9.5. With the new GMT solution, the financial services company can more closely monitor its internal performance, improve employee productivity, and lower its staffing costs.

Parallax Technologies in conjunction with Cacti, announced that IRMC has selected the Cacti Contact Center Performance Suite, FocusRecord VoIP, Executive Connect, ObserveCTI WebPortal, and WordScan Applications. The application suite will be used to record, monitor, and analyze customer interactions within IRMC Centers of Excellence worldwide.

UCN announced the availability of inContact/VoIP Service. This enables UCN to connect both traditional TDM and VoIP stations into the hosted inContact contact handling applications..

Vignette announced that its Board of Directors has approved the repurchase of up to $75 million of its Common Stock over the next year.

Talisma announced that it signed 61 new customers in the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2006, which raises the company's new customer count in 2006 to over 200 worldwide. Talisma also continued their momentum with year over year bookings growth of over 40%.

SER Solutions announced that it has received two U.S. patents for innovation in audio data monitoring and mining using speech recognition technology.

Rainmaker Systems announced that the Master Service Agreement with one of its Fortune 50 technology companies, representing 10% of overall business, has been extended through 2010.