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ARTICLE | Strategy

Noteworthy: Discovery Partners: Toolkit bundling

January 24, 2000 8:00 AM UTC

Small platform companies offering one or two technologies face a highly competitive market for both customers and financing dollars. A critical issue for these companies is whether they can successfully band together to build critical mass, or whether they would be better off merging into companies that are already big.

Discovery Partners International, which was set up in 1998 to rescue small platforms by bundling their services together for customers, has just acquired its first company, Discovery Technologies Ltd. (Basel, Switzerland) , and sees more such acquisitions on the horizon...