Software firm readies for IPO

BOHEMIA - Mydocuments.com, a document management software firm, is taking strides to go public within a year, said its CEO, Ronald Corriveau, a former Computer Associates executive hired for the task.

Corriveau. said the company, formerly known as ARvee Systems, is negotiating with several underwriters as well as public companies it can buy through which it can go public without conducting an initial public offering, called a reverse merger.

Mydocuments.com. allows its customers to transfer documents from their hard drives to the company's Internet domain, enabling the material to be retrieved from anywhere in the world. The material is secured through passwords and proper identification, and, according to Corriveau, it is impenetrable.

"If you are working in New York and you have to travel, all your work can be uploaded

onto mydocuments.com and then retrieved at your destination," said Corriveau, who was hired as mydocuments.com's CEO and president in May.

"This allows you to fully manage your work on the Web while maintaining the security of your documents."