Alliances & Deals.

INFORMATION technology; MERGERS & acquisitions; BUSINESS partnerships; EBSCO Information Services (Company); LEXISNEXIS Group Inc.

Presents updates on partnerships and acquisition deals in the information technology industry in the U.S., as of March 2002. Acquisition of SoftLine Information by ProQuest Company's information and learning unit; Purchase of AltHealth Watch, a database created by SoftLine, by EBSCO Publishing; Alliance formed by LexisNexis with WhizBang! Labs, an information extraction products and services provider.