EXHIBIT 3.1

                           CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT OF
                         CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF
                                BROADVISION, INC.

         BroadVision,  Inc., a corporation  organized and existing  under and by
virtue  of  the  General   Corporation   Law  of  the  State  of  Delaware  (the
"Corporation"), DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

         FIRST: The name of the Corporation is BroadVision, Inc.

         SECOND:  The date on which  the  Certificate  of  Incorporation  of the
Corporation  was  originally  filed with the  Secretary of State of the State of
Delaware is May 13, 1993.

         THIRD: The Board of Directors of the Corporation,  acting in accordance
with the  provisions of Sections 141 and 242 of the General  Corporation  Law of
the  State  of  Delaware,   adopted  resolutions  amending  its  Certificate  of
Incorporation as follows:

                  The  first  paragraph  of  Article  IV  shall be  amended  and
restated to read in its entirety as follows:

                                             "IV.

                  A. The total  number of shares of all  classes of stock  which
         the  corporation has the authority to issue is Five Hundred Ten Million
         (510,000,000)  shares,  consisting of two classes: Five Hundred Million
         (500,000,000)  shares of Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share, and
         Ten Million  (10,000,000) shares of Preferred Stock,  $0.0001 par value
         per share."

         FOURTH:  Thereafter pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors,
this  Certificate  of  Amendment  was  submitted  to  the  stockholders  of  the
Corporation  for their  approval,  and was duly adopted in  accordance  with the
provisions  of  Section  242 of the  General  Corporation  Law of the  State  of
Delaware.



         IN WITNESS  WHEREOF,  BroadVision,  Inc. has caused this Certificate of
Amendment of  Certificate  of  Incorporation  to be signed by its  President and
attested to by its Secretary this 5th day of October, 1999.

                       BROADVISION, INC.

                       By:  /s/ Pehong Chen
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                            Pehong Chen, President and Chief Executive Officer

ATTEST:

/s/ Kenneth L. Guernsey
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Kenneth L. Guernsey, Secretary