News For January, 1999

Inxight Software announced a program for non-profit organizations and educational institutions that offers Inxight's Hyperbolic Tree technology for creating interactive website maps. The free program gives webmasters and/or web designers the tools to create an intuitive and interactive single-screen site map that enables their website visitors to find information quickly and easily. The Program includes proprietary prototype software that automatically "crawls" the contents of their website and creates a "tree file." It also includes a simple-to-use "editor" that allows the webmaster to make modifications resulting in a Hyperbolic Tree site map that can be color coded to show related topics with live links that enable a user to easily find the information desired and click directly to the page of interest. Qualifying organizations, whose websites typically have URLs in the .edu and .org domains, can join the program by registering online at Inxight's website.

Open Text Results
1/27/1999

Open Text Corporation announced record revenues and operating profits for its second quarter ended December 31, 1998. Net income, excluding a one-time charge, for the second quarter was US$3.3 million, which is $0.15 per share (diluted) compared to net income of $153,000 or $0.01 per share, excluding a one-time charge, for the year-earlier quarter. The one-time charge of $3.4 million in the second quarter of fiscal 1999 relates to the company's purchase of certain assets of LAVA Systems. For the twelfth consecutive quarter, Open Text reported the highest quarterly total revenues in the company's history. Total revenues for the quarter were US$20.8 million up 113 percent from $9.8 million for the year-earlier period. License revenues for the quarter ended December 31, 1998 were $12.9 million, up 90 percent compared to $6.8 million for the second quarter of fiscal 1998. www.opentext.com

Group Formed to Set XML Standards for Footwear Industry
1/27/1999

Daniel Green Company initiated a collaborative effort to develop new, open standards for data exchange among footwear suppliers, retailers, web sites, sourcing and distribution. These new standards are intended for use with XML. The working group will include representatives from a broad cross-section of the footwear industry, such as athletic, shoes, boots, women's fashion, retail and Internet outlets. Initial plans call for the working group to define standard terms and design basic document object models that are expected to have a far-reaching impact on transaction productivity within the footwear industry. Ultimate goals include reduced inventories and waste as well as lower costs and greater variety for consumers. www.danielgreenco.com

Forte Releases XML-Based Application Adapters
1/27/1999

Forte Software Inc. has announced XML-based application adapters for SAP R/2 and R/3 and Vantive Enterprise applications, the first in a line called the Forte Adapter Series. The company has also created an EAI business unit and will target its development and process-management tools for EAI tasks. Forte says its development tools are needed to link applications developed in-house. A software development kit specifically designed for integration tasks will be available in about 90 days, according to the company. Forte also said it will resell Iona Technologies' Orbix middleware for building links to Corba-based software. www.forte.com

Optika to Integrate UWI.com's XML Internetform
1/27/1999

Optika Inc., a provider of Web commerce solutions for intranets and extranets, today announced that it has entered into a technology partnership with UWI.Com, a leading provider of secure XML forms solutions for the Internet. Under the agreement, the companies will integrate UWI.Com's XML InternetForms system with Optika eMedia to enable businesses to engage in electronic commerce with their supply chain over Internet, intranet and extranet sites. The integration will enable companies to build forms accessible through standard browsers, providing capabilities that automate the completion and validation of the forms data. Because UWI.Com InternetForms are built on XML, they also include additional metadata used by Optika eMedia systems to automate form processing. For example, a company can use an InternetForm to order additional materials from a supplier simply by going to an extranet site. The supplier's system will then automatically start up a workflow for processing the request, based upon order amount, shipment deadline and available inventory. www.optika.com, www.uwi.com.

The World Wide Web Consortium releases CSS1 Test Suite
1/26/1999

The W3C has released a test suite for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS is a widely supported style sheet language that describes how Web documents (e.g., written in HTML or XML) are presented on screen, paper, in speech, etc. The CSS1 Test Suite will help implementors improve CSS1 support in their products and will enable Web page designers to verify the quality of CSS1 support in their browsers. Solid CSS support across a variety of browsers will encourage authors to use style sheets. The test suite consists of nearly 100 pages, each of which documents a section from the CSS specification. Using words and images, the pages describe how the various CSS features should be rendered. www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/

Norwest Venture Partners invests additional $3.25 Million in Arbortext
1/26/1999

Norwest Venture Partners, a venture capital business partner for emerging growth IT companies, today announced a $3.25 million follow-on investment in Arbortext, the provider of standards-based enterprise software for information creation, editing and publishing. Norwest has invested a total of more than $9 million in Arbortext, and Promod Haque, managing partner with the firm, is a member of Arbortext's board of directors. This second round of funding, totaling $10.25 million, was led by Invesco and also included an investment by Access Capital. Arbortext plans to use the funding to expand sales and marketing activities. www.arbortext.com, www.norwestvc.com

NetRight introduces Microsoft Outlook client for iManage
1/25/1999

NetRight Technologies has introduced a Microsoft Outlook integration client for iManage. This new interface enables integration between the iManage document management system (DMS) and Outlook, Microsoft’s messaging and workgroup interface. Using the Outlook client, users can perform many of the familiar Microsoft Outlook tasks on documents stored in the DMS. For example, users can now sort documents based upon their status (checked-in or checked-out), who checked them out, and apply Outlook rules. The expanded search capabilities of DMS are made available through the usual search dialogs. Users can also move mail messages and attachments straight into the DMS without the need for a separate interface or application. The new Outlook client also enables users to e-mail iManage documents as links or attachments. Features of Outlook such as "drag and drop" functionality including importing and exporting are also included in the new client. www.netright.com

NetRight Technologies and LEXIS-NEXIS Announce exclusive partnership
1/25/1999

NetRight Technologies also announced a partnership with LEXIS-NEXIS, the world’s leading provider of enhanced information services for online, Internet, CD-ROM and hardcopy formats, to integrate document management and online research tools for legal professionals. Users of NetRight’s iManage document management system will now have a "button" from which they can launch the LEXIS-NEXIS on-line research tool directly from iManage. Once information is located in LEXIS-NEXIS it can then be downloaded into iManage. After the document is imported into iManage it can be stored, retrieved and edited. www.netright.com, www.lexis-nexis.com

PC DOCS/Fulcrum unveils new enterprise table of contents
1/25/1999

PC DOCS/Fulcrum, announced the Enterprise Table of Contents (ETOC), a new component to be featured in upcoming versions of the DOCSFulcrum enterprise knowledge management system. ETOC technology allows users to browse a hierarchy of all information available in an enterprise -- similar to the table of contents in a book - by employing a neural network-based content analysis technology to automatically classify information from a variety of different sources and repositories. This eliminates the primary difficulty of not knowing precisely what to look for or where in the network to start looking for knowledge that matters to the user. Information is pulled from file systems, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, databases, document indexes, and other information systems available to DOCSFulcrum. www.pcdocs.com

PC DOCS/Fulcrum launches Knowledge Base 32 precedent management solution
1/25/1999

PC DOCS/Fulcrum also announced the release of KNOWLEDGE Base32, its new "precedent management" business application. An extension to DOCS Open, KNOWLEDGE Base32 (KB32) goes beyond document management technology to give attorneys the ability to create and manage a library of their intellectual assets - documents that hold historical knowledge, legal know-how, or judgements which have set precedents. In the precedent library, these documents are continually stored, reviewed, and approved by people selected from within the firm. www.pcdocs.com

Corel selects Verity HTML Export for new office suite publishing product
1/25/1999

Verity, Inc. and Corel Corp. announced an OEM agreement involving Verity's HTML Export technology. Corel is embedding Verity HTML Export in its new, knowledge publishing application, code-named NetDocs, which will be included in part of Corel's upcoming version of WordPerfect Office 2000 Professional. HTML Export is designed to provide conversion of business documents into HTML for Web publishing. Verity HTML Export allows an organization to publish and view documents from a standard Web browser by regenerating files into HTML from their native formats, without requiring an HTML editor or the original application that created them. It is designed to enable Corel users to conveniently convert documents to HTML from within the application's "save as" feature. www.verity.com, www.corel.com

Documentum announces revenue and profits for the fourth quarter
1/21/1999

Documentum announced their revenues and net income for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 1998. Revenues for the fourth quarter of 1998 were $36.4 million, a 54 percent increase over revenues of $23.6 million for the same period of 1997. Net income for the fourth quarter increased to $4.2 million compared with net income of $2.8 million reported for the same period of 1997. Earnings per diluted share grew 33 percent to $.24 in the fourth quarter, up from $.18 for the fourth quarter of 1997. For comparative purposes, except where noted, the annual results exclude the effects of a one time charge in the first quarter of 1998 of $2.2 million primarily related to the previously announced acquisition of Workgroup Management, Inc., which closed on January 5, 1998, and a one time charge in the third quarter of 1998 of $34.6 million related to the previously announced acquisition of Relevance Technologies, Inc., which closed on July 16, 1998. For the year ended December 31, 1998, revenues were $123.8 million, a 64 percent increase over revenues of $75.6 million for the same period of 1997. Net income for the year ended December 31, 1998 was $12.9 million, or $.75 per diluted share, up from $7.4 million, or $.49 per diluted share for the same period of 1997. www.documentum.com

W3C issues WebCGM Profile as a recommendation
1/21/1999

World Wide Web Consortium has released the WebCGM Profile as a W3C Recommendation. Developed in close collaboration between W3C and the CGM Open Consortium, the profile reflects cross-industry agreement on an interoperable way to exchange dynamic, hyperlinked Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) files over the Web. CGM is an ISO standard graphics format widely used in the aerospace, defence, automotive and medical industries, for example in interactive online technical manuals. Members of CGM Open, W3C, or both who contributed include: ArborText, Auto-trol Technologies, Aerospatiale, Bentley Systems, The Boeing Company, CCLRC, Inso Corporation, Intercap Graphics Systems, ITEDO/IsoDraw, Jeppesen Inc, Larson Software Technology, NIST, System Development Inc, Xerox Corporation and Zeh Graphic Systems. The work was also supported by the European Commission's Esprit Project and undertaken in liaison with ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC24, the ISO working group which developed the CGM specification. www.w3.org, www.cgmopen.org

Workgroup technology reports third-quarter financial results
1/21/1999

Workgroup Technology Corporation, (the PDM system provider) announced its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 1999 ended December 31, 1998. For the third quarter of fiscal 1999, WTC reported revenue of $2,183,000 compared with $1,897,000 in the third quarter of fiscal 1998. The net loss for the third quarter of fiscal 1999 was $2,120,000, or $0.25 per share, compared with a net loss of $1,727,000, or $0.21 per share, for the third quarter of fiscal 1998. Revenue for the first nine months of fiscal 1999 was $6,093,000, compared with $5,611,000 for the comparable period one year ago. The net loss for the first nine months of fiscal 1999 was $6,841,000, or $0.81 per share, versus a net loss of $5,437,000, or $0.66 per share, for the first nine months of fiscal 1998. www.workgroup.com

Interleaf forms enterprise Content Management Solutions Group
1/20/1999

Interleaf, Inc. announced it has assembled a group devoted to developing and deploying enterprise business solutions to meet the needs of companies in the manufacturing and financial services markets. By assembling an experienced team the Content Management Solutions Group. Interleaf is dedicating resources from its sales and professional services organizations. Interleaf markets the XML- based BladeRunner content management system. www.interleaf.com

Commerce One acquires Veo Systems, Inc.
1/19/1999

Commerce One, Inc. announced that it has acquired privately held Veo Systems, Inc., a provider of XML-based open commerce networks. With this acquisition, Commerce One will rapidly accelerate the pace of development of industry-leading XML-based business-to-business electronic commerce solutions to enable open Internet trading communities. Veo pioneered the development of The Common Business Library (CBL). CBL is a public collection of XML "building blocks" for creating common business documents such as catalogs, purchase orders, and invoices. Veo has turned over CBL to CommerceNet, an industry consortium that is promoting interoperable commerce on the Internet. Over 25 Internet commerce leaders including HP, IBM, Microsoft, Netscape, and Sun are actively involved in this activity, as well as the chief architects of leading key electronic commerce standards initiatives such as OBI, RosettaNet, XML-EDI, OTP and ICE. Commerce One will maintain and grow Veo's Mountain View, Calif. site as a Development Center for the Commerce Chain Solution. Veo Systems' President and CEO, Asim Abdullah, and Chairman and Chief Scientist, Dr. Jay M. Tenenbaum, will join Commerce One's executive management team and Commerce One's Board of Directors. Commerce One's XML-enabled products are expected to reach the marketplace in mid-1999. ww.commerceone.com

Transit Central EDM 3.2 Integrates with Lotus Domino.Doc
1/19/1999

At Lotusphere InfoAccess Inc. announced Transit Central EDM for Lotus Domino.Doc which will extend Domino.Doc to include standards-based Web publishing power and automation. This new integration provides Domino.Doc users with a sophisticated solution for automatically publishing and updating visually appealing and fully linked Websites, while maintaining the document controls and file level security found in a document management system. Using Transit Central EDM, Domino.Doc users will be able to select source documents directly from the Domino.Doc database for publication, and then publish the finished Web pages to a Website or back into a Lotus Notes database for access via Domino. www.infoaccess.com.

FileNET announces estimated results
1/19/1999

FileNET Corp. reported estimated results for its fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 1998. Revenue is expected to be approximately $85.1 million, up 11 percent from $76.4 million for the fourth quarter of 1997. Income before restructuring and other costs is expected to be approximately $1.0 million or 3 cents per diluted share, compared to net income of $5.9 million or 18 cents per diluted share for the fourth quarter of 1997. Net loss for the fourth quarter of 1998 is expected to be approximately $.4 million or 1 cent per diluted share. FileNET expects to announce final results on Jan. 26, 1999. For the year ended Dec. 31, 1998, revenue is expected to be approximately $310.2 million, up 23 percent from $251.4 million for the year ended Dec. 31, 1997. Income for 1998 before restructuring and other costs is expected to be approximately $2.4 million or 7 cents per diluted share. Net income for 1998 is expected to approximate $1.0 million, or 3 cents per diluted share, compared to a net loss in 1997 of $5.5 million or 18 cents per diluted share. www.filenet.com

The Open Applications Group releases XML application
1/19/1999

The Open Applications Group, Inc. (OAGI), a non-profit industry consortium comprised of many of the stakeholders in the business software component interoperability arena, announced publication of a full set of XML Document Type Definition (DTD) files that define interoperability APIs. The group has built a common model for software application component interoperability over the last three years. The model is described in their Open Applications Group Integration Specification. OAGIS describes the major components, their integration dialogs, and the content of those dialogs for many key enterprise business applications, including financials, manufacturing, human resources, supply chain, and logistics. The DTDs necessary to define this integration content in XML have been published on the OAGI web site and are available for public access at: www.openapplications.org . The DTDs will be free of charge to download and use, but a license agreement will be enacted to maintain ownership of intellectual property.

Open Market announces LiveCommerce 2.0
1/19/1999

Open Market, Inc. announced the availability of LiveCommerce 2.0, the latest version of Open Market's enterprise catalog and marketing solution. LiveCommerce 2.0 enables companies to create, personalized online catalogs that serve the unique and evolving requirements of their customers. New features in LiveCommerce 2.0 include: real time dynamic entry, international support, ERP integration APIs, a "Dynamic Page Language", and Solaris availability. www.openmarket.com

Lotus Launches Release 5 of Notes & Domino
1/18/1999

At Lotusphere99, Lotus Development Corp. today launched Release 5 (R5) of Notes, Domino and Domino Designer, Lotus' collaboration and Internet messaging software. The new Notes R5 client is a browser-like desktop environment that provides users with access to their most frequently used applications, including Internet e-mail, news, calendars, Web browsing, document management and custom business applications, from one integrated source. Lotus also announced an extension of its relationship with America Online that will enhance the ability of Lotus customers to find and manage Web-based news and information. Through the partnership, America Online provides Web content from a variety of its online news and content sources that users can access and manage directly from within the Notes R5 Client. www.lotus.com/r5.

KnowledgeLink Interactive changes name to powerize.com
1/18/1999

KnowledgeLink Interactive Inc., a provider of business intelligence solutions for business, announced it has changed its name to powerize.com, effective immediately. Powerize.com's main product is the Powerize Server, The Corporate Portal Machine, formerly called PerSavant. With the Powerize Server, an organization can create a secure in-house information service for its employees - an intranet-based portal that enables users to conduct ad hoc research against multiple and distributed information sources, and create research agents that constantly monitor those sources for new and important information. The Powerize Server can access a wide range of intranet sources including any ODBC database, Lotus Notes databases, and document collections indexed by tools from Documentum, Excalibur, and Verity; any free or paid site on the Internet; newsfeeds from providers such as NewsEdge; and professional online services from providers such as Dialog, and Infonautics. Separately Powersize announced a deal with Vignette to use their syndication server. www.powerize.com.

DataChannel announces RIO 3.2
1/18/1999

DataChannel Inc. announced the immediate availability of the 3.2 version of DataChannel RIO, the company's flagship product. DataChannel RIO is an XML-enabled solution designed to build a dynamic two-way corporate portal with input (i.e. publishing) and output (i.e. retrieval) capabilities that make Intranets and Extranets easier to use, integrate, manage, and support. With this release, new features and functionality have been added to ensure smoother deployment in a secure environment, help better manage documents and integrate data. This newest release also represents the first implementation of the XML Java parser co-developed by Microsoft and DataChannel in a commercial product. The 45-day trial can be downloaded at: www.datachannel.com/download

MIT & Akamai Plan A Faster Way To Distribute Content Over The Web
1/14/1999

MIT and Akamai Technologies Inc., announced a plan to deploy the "world's largest fault-tolerant network for distributing Web content." The new company Akamai has more than $8 million in seed financing from venture capitalists and private investors. The company's first service offering, called "FreeFlow," uses a new technology to shift the burdensome aspects of Web-based content distribution from a content provider's server or servers to Akamai's global network of host servers. FreeFlow is currently in beta in partnership with "some of the largest sites on the Internet," which were not named. But officials said the beta testers include "five of the world's most-visited Web sites. FreeFlow is designed to work with any Web server or site design, including database-driven and e-commerce applications. www.akamai.com.

The W3C Issues 'Namespaces in XML' as Recommendation
1/14/1999

The W3C has released the "Namespaces in XML" specification as a W3C Recommendation. Teaming up with W3C's Extensible Markup Language (XML) Recommendation, this new specification allows authors to mix two or more XML-based languages in one document without conflict or ambiguity, thus promoting the modular development and reuse of XML languages and applications. The "Namespaces in XML" specification resolves potential name clashes by using the Web addressing infrastructure. Each element name in a document may be prefixed with a unique address, thus precisely qualifying the name. The modularity and simplicity of XML technology combined with namespaces paves the way for future developments, such as the work in progress in W3C's XML Schema Working Group, and data exchange based on W3C's Resource Description Framework (RDF) architecture.The "Namespaces in XML" specification was created and developed by the W3C XML Working Group, which includes key industry players such as Adobe, ArborText, DataChannel, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Inso, Isogen, Microsoft, NCSA, Netscape, Oracle, SoftQuad, Sun Microsystems, Texcel, Vignette, and Fuji Xerox; as well as experts in structured documents and electronic publishing. www.w3c.org.

Inso Acquires AIS Software S.A. from Berger-Levrault
1/12/1999

Inso announced it has purchased the French organization AIS Software, the developer of Balise, the SGML and XML transformation tool and scripting language, and Prism, a web-based XML and SGML publishing system. Inso paid about $3 million in cash for AIS. Inso gets an experienced development team with the products, and access to AIS's customer base, which is especially extensive in France. www.inso.com, www.balise.com.

Object Design Names Justin Perreault President & CEO
1/11/1999

Object Design, Inc. announced that Justin J. Perreault has been named the company's new president and chief executive officer. Perreault, who had previously been the company's executive vice president and chief operating officer, succeeds Robert N. Goldman, who will continue to serve as the company's chairman of the board. Perreault joined Object Design as executive vice president and chief operating officer in November 1995. Prior to that time, he was a vice president with Harvard Management Company, where he made a number of venture investments in successful technology companies, and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, Inc. www.objectdesign.com

Cascade Systems Names Robert Angelo President & CEO
1/11/1999

Cascade Systems, Inc. announced that Robert Angelo is appointed as President and CEO effective January 1st, 1999. Prior to Cascade, Angelo was Founder, CEO and Chairman of SystemSoft Corp.Previously Angelo was at Phoenix Technologies and Cullinet Software. Malcolm McGrory, who was CEO will become Vice-Chairman and Executive VP. www.cascadenet.com

Fuji Xerox to Distribute INSCI Products in Singapore
1/11/1999

INSCI Corp. announced that it has entered into an agreement with Fuji Xerox Singapore to market and sell INSCI software products and services throughout Singapore. This agreement is an extension of the original agreement between INSCI and Fuji Xerox, in which Fuji Xerox acts as a reseller of INSCI software products in several other Asian countries. According to the announcement by INSCI Chairman and Chief Executive Officer E. Ted Prince, Ph.D., Fuji Xerox will focus its sales and marketing efforts on customers who need to view production print documents online and on Internet Web sites, which is becoming a rapidly increasing customer requirement. http://www.insci.com.

Broadvision Ships New One-To-One Applications
1/11/1999

BroadVision, Inc. announced the immediate availability of two new versions of BroadVision One-To-One applications, One-To-One Commerce Version 4 and One-To-One Financial Version 4, and a new Web publishing tool, BroadVision One-To-One Publishing Center. All products shipped on December 31, 1998. www.broadvision.com

Texcel International Announces New Release of Information Manager Web Application
1/11/1999

Texcel International today announced the availability of the latest release of the Texcel Information Manager (IM) Web Application. The IM Web Application allows widely distributed groups of authors, reviewers and other knowledge workers to fully collaborate in the information lifecycle by enabling them to access and manipulate the contents of remote document repositories over the World Wide Web. This latest release of Information Manager's Web-based client offers new capabilities, including the ability to check documents and other content in and out of a repository, and to author and update information from a remote site using the Web. Content can be created or edited using any tool available to the remote contributor. Check-in/check-out and remote editing extend the IM Web Application's capabilities beyond the set of functions provided in the previous version released in September 1998. www.texcel.no.

Poet Appoints Senior VP of Sales & Business Development
1/6/1999

POET Software announced Dana Gauthier has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales/Business Development. Mr. Gauthier was most recently Senior Director of Sales with Hewlett-Packard's Electronic Commerce Division. Mr. Gauthier is responsible for worldwide Sales, Consulting, Pre-Sales and Technical Support for all product lines. He will define sales plan/strategy, develop/manage the direct/channel sales/pre-sales organization, direct customer support center and develop a broad consulting business. www.poet.com.

Alpnet and Sorman Information Sign Agreement
1/5/1999

ALPNET, Inc., a supplier of worldwide translation and product localization services, announced the signing of a strategic alliance agreement with Sorman Information to jointly market and provide Industrial Information Services to the global industrial community.Sorman Information AB is a European market leader in the area of information management systems, software development and content creation for advanced industrial information applications.Sorman has been active in the international SGML/XML community and has developed the SplitVision information delivery and browsing software. http://www.alpnet.com, http://www.sorman.se.

Blue Angel Technologies Announces New XMLTool
1/5/1999

Blue Angel Technologies Tuesday announced MetaDoor InterChange, an XML authoring tool that generates XML from desktop applications like Microsoft Word and Excel. MetaDoor InterChange separates the data entry process from the record structure so that data entry forms can hide XML from users. MetaDoor InterChange is the latest addition to Blue Angel's suite of XML enabled software solutions. MetaDoor InterChange will be available January 15, 1999 and is priced at $49 per seat. www.blueangeltech.com.

Object Design Announces Free Beta of XML Data Server
1/4/1999

Object Design, Inc. today announced that the beta software for its eXcelon XML data server is now available free-of-charge from the company's Web site at (www.objectdesign.com). eXcelon is an XML data server that enables companies to build Web applications using XML. eXcelon can be used as an XML application cache for existing data sources, or as a data management system for new XML-based applications.

RightDoc Announces New Content Management System
1/4/1999

RightDoc Company announced the immediate availability of RightDoc 1.0, an XML-based content management and publishing engine. RightDoc provides for the dynamic creation of XML documents in Enterprise or Web server based Visual Basic, C++, J++, Delphi, Excel, and Access applications. XML-based RightDoc(tm) dynamically creates personalized document content from applications to view, print, and generate HTML4, PDF, and PostScript formats with built-in variable text merging, conditional formatting and conditional processing. Evaluation software can be downloaded at www.rightdoc.com.

DSS welcomes Girish Altekar & Bill Trippe to group of consulting associates
1/4/1999

CAP Ventures' Dynamic Content Software Services group has signed-up two new experts to work with DSS clients in a variety of research and consulting projects.

Welcome Girish & Bill!

Adobe Buys GoLive Systems
1/4/1999

Adobe Systems Inc. has acquired the assets of GoLive Systems Inc., a privately-held company whose products include the GoLive CyberStudio professional Web publishing software. The acquisition gives Adobe a professional Web publishing platform to market alongside its graphics and imaging software. The acquisition also brings a number of high-profile clients, such as Aware Records, Music Boulevard, Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Records, The Associated Press, NuSkin, MTV Networks, Virgin Records, The Chicago Tribune, Apple Computer and Iomega Corporation. www.adobe.com

Dataware Technologies Acquires Sovereign Hill Software
1/4/1999

Dataware Technologies, Inc. today announced that it has purchased the assets and assumed selected liabilities of Sovereign Hill Software, Inc. The total estimated transaction cost of approximately $4.0 million is currently anticipated to result in a one-time write-off of in-process research and development of between $2.0 to $3.0 million in the quarter ended December 31, 1998. The purchase price included 200,000 shares of Dataware Common Stock and warrants to purchase 40,000 additional shares of Dataware Common Stock priced at $6.00 per share. Although year-end results are not complete, Dataware currently estimates that earnings per share for the fourth quarter of 1998, prior to one- time charges, will be in line with analysts' estimates. Final fourth quarter and year-end 1998 results will be announced on February 11, 1999. David Mahoney, Sovereign Hill's current CEO, will join Dataware as president and CEO. Kurt Mueller will remain on the Dataware board of directors as chairman. www.dataware.com

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