Chicago-based Whittman-Hart is buying Oracle reseller Fulcrum Solutions to expand its UK ecommerce business. The acquisition of London-based Fulcrum will add offices in Edinburgh and Manchester to Whittman Hart, which advises companies on their Internet strategy and helps them set up online. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. "With this acquisition, Whittman-Hart is now the UK's leading e-Business solutions provider for the mid-market," claimed Robert Bernard, Whittman-Hart Chairman and CEO. "We have strengthened our capacity to integrate business strategy with marketing insight and Web-enabled technologies to give our UK clients a competitive advantage in the new economy." Fulcrum also has a US office in New York. ®