Broadvision (BVSN), Jive Software (JIVE) and Novell (a private company) were other named defendants in the suit.

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The shop now is one of the top two in automating Web sites (the other is BroadVision, based in Redwood City, California).

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Such outposts are often expendable: BroadVision set up an office in Miami in 1999 but closed it when the Latin American market and overall economy cooled.

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Companies as diverse as activity streaming platform SocialCast (recently bought by VMWare), IBM, start-ups like Huddle, Box, behemoth SAP, Microsoft, Moxie, Jive, CISCO, Nortel, old platforms like SocialText, old web platforms like Broadvision, Alfresco from open source, are competing for attention in this space.

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