She was the head of marketing at an Atlanta software firm called XcelleNet when it was sold to Sterling Commerce in July 1998.

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For example, the company is in the process of acquiring Sterling Commerce, which allows businesses to connect to each other's back-end data for things like billing, inventory and trucking capacity.

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With Sterling and WebSphere together, IBM can offer a soup-to-nuts e-commerce platform.

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