Aspen Technology Aspen Technology, Inc. is the leading supplier of integrated software and solutions for process manufacturers. Aspen software allows customers to automate and optimize their plants and extended supply chains with eBusiness solutions. With deep process knowledge, best-in-class technology, and strategic alliances with leading business and technology partners, AspenTech offers the industry's broadest family of scaleable solutions allowing our customers to be successful in the Internet economy.  Aspen Technology has formed an alliance with Extricity to build and deliver Aspen e-Business™ - a part of the Aspen eSupply Chain Suite. Aspen e-Business™ extends AspenTech's Enterprise Optimization solutions for the Process Industries to include B2B collaboration and Net Market support. Process manufacturers can now use Aspen solutions to achieve collaborative e-business integration with their trading partners, vendors and end-users via the Internet. "As AspenTech launches into the fast-moving B2B net market space, we are extending our tight relationship with Extricity that began when we partnered for our Aspen eBusiness solutions," said David Mushin, executive vice president, AspenTech. "Using Extricity's technology as the foundation for our net markets' B2B integration is a natural fit. Our process industry customers require rapid deployment to partners, support for a wide variety of open XML-based and other communications mechanisms, and the ability to automate simple to sophisticated interactions among companies-all of which are delivered by Extricity." www.aspentech.com