Oct, 2001 : Divine Completes Acquisitions of Intira, HostOne Assets

📅 October 19, 2001 - divine, inc., (divine.com), has announced that it has completed its acquisition of certain assets of Intira Corporation (intira.com) and HostOne.

divine provides facilities-based managed applications services, withanticipated annual revenue of more than $30 million for the division. Theseacquisitions bring together the facilities and processes of Intira with theapplication management services and expertise of HostOne, and theapplication development talent of divine's Professional ServicesOrganization. divine's strategy is to build and deliver world-classfacilities-based managed hosting services for a variety of business-criticalenterprise applications, and provide an application infrastructure fordivine's collaboration, interaction, and content aggregation andpersonalization applications.
"Businesses today need to leverage complex solutions quickly, reliably,cost-effectively, and in a controlled, monitored environment," said JimDennedy, president, divine Managed Services. "To do that, they require high-performance infrastructure solutions to host and manage those applications.With the acquisitions of Intira and HostOne, divine has assembled the keycapabilities to provide end-to-end hosting and managed support for acomplete client solution."
divine now has data centers in Pleasanton, Calif., and St. Louis andoperational facilities in Washington D.C. and New York. By owning theapplication infrastructure platform and the management of the hostingenvironment, divine is able to provide greater control over the quality andavailability of divine's and other hosted applications.