Ask Jeeves unloads software unit: Ask Jeeves last week said it plans to sell its enterprise software division, Jeeves Solutions, to Kanisa, a customer service application vendor. Kanisa will pay $4.25 million for all assets of the division, including its JeevesOne search and CRM technology and about 40 corporate customer accounts. Ask Jeeves officials said the company plans to concentrate on its Web-search business.Oracle, Plumtree target Sarbanes-Oxley: Oracle and portal vendor Plumtree Software separately announced offerings to help companies comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Oracle worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers to develop its Internal Controls Manager, which is designed to help certify financial processes. Plumtree teamed with HandySoft to combine portal, collaboration, and search technologies with application logic and business-process management. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last week extended the Sarbanes-Oxley deadline to June 15, 2004.AT&T bolsters business continuity: AT&T announced new additions to its business continuity line to enable customers to be more proactive in their backup and recovery plans. The company’s new StorageConnect is a fully managed, multilocation storage transport service that allows clients to extend remote replication, backup, and multivendor storage area network products between different locations and/or AT&T Internet Data Centers over any distance, the company said. The company also announced Direct Control, which lets hosting customers remotely and securely access their servers located in AT&T’s U.S. datacenters via a Web browser. Software Development