Divine will produce e-business portals for corporate clients, combining its software with that of Islandia, N.Y. -based Computer Associates and that of a new Divine acquisition, the e-business system developer SageMaker Inc. Computer Associates bought Filipowski's Platinum Technology International in 1998. It posted $6 billion in revenues last year.

Divine will buy SageMaker for $16.5 million in stock. It said the deal is expected to close later this month. SageMaker had 2000 revenue of $6 million.

Computer Associates and SageMaker both produce so-called enterprise information portals. These portals pull business data inside and outside a company -- from specific business applications to common e-mail and calendar software -- and transfer it into a worker's Web terminal. Divine plans to incorporate the portal with related software produced by its own companies.

"As we assessed our portfolio of companies, the EIP business emerged as a natural fit for Divine," Filipowski said in a statement. "We will continue to make strategic investments, partnerships and acquisitions in technologies that round out our EIP solution."