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Siebel Systems Inc., in its latest move to attract a broader customer base, plans to enhance its fledgling Siebel CRM On-Demand hosted services with technology it is acquiring with customer relationship management application service provider UpShot Corp. Siebel plans to merge the Mountain View, California, company, which it is purchasing for $70 million, with its own forthcoming hosted offering by the second quarter of next year. UpShot's offline client is chief among the technologies Siebel intends to migrate to Siebel CRM OnDemand, its joint offering with IBM. The client, which is based on Microsoft Corp.'s Excel software, will be a second offline option along with Siebel's own offline client, according to Ken Rudin, vice president and general manager of Siebel CRM OnDemand.

Computer History Museum, which opened June 02, 2003 in Mountain View, California, uses a collection of outdated computers and computer-related artifacts to demonstrate the breadth of developments of the information age. The museum is housed in a 120,000-square-foot building and is in fund-raising mode to add exhibits and programs and to expand opening hours. Current museum holdings include software, hardware, graphics systems and early developments that made later computers and network systems possible. Lectures on computer history and technology developments are hosted in the building's 400-seat auditorium. Some of the rare items that visitors can see are a Cray-1 super-computer, an Apple I. the World War II-vintage ENIGMA and a PalmPilot prototype.

Offers a look at the business performance of Juniper Networks company, a maker of Internet backbone routers based in Mountain View, California. Growing popularity of network infrastructure in the country; Comments from Andrew Cray, an industry analyst at the Aberdeen Group.