News For February, 1999

iLumin Corporation, an Internet e-commerce company providing enforceable electronic transactions for the Internet E-conomy), announced the addition of Intel's Pentium III processor serial number as an optional added security feature in iLumin's newest suite of software products and services. iLumin's products and services allow the purchase of automobiles and homes, the completion of corporate mergers and court filings, and the electronic execution of legally binding document transactions over the Internet. iLumin's software combines documents based on XML, proprietary automated processing, and secure digital signatures to facilitate the execution and filing of documents of business, government, and commerce over the Internet. With the addition of Intel's Pentium III processor serial number feature, iLumin's Paranoid-by-Design suite of products will incorporate the additional security feature of identifying the machine from which the document was sent as well as the machine receiving the document. www.illumin.com

W3C issues Recommendation for RDF
2/24/1999

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today releases the Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax specification as a W3C Recommendation, representing cross-industry and expert community agreement on a wide range of features for using and providing metadata on the Web. A W3C Recommendation indicates that a specification is stable, contributes to Web interoperability, and has been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favor its adoption by the industry. Metadata is "data about data." For example, a library catalog is metadata, since it describes publications or specifically in the context of this specification "data describing Web resources". The distinction between "data" and "metadata" is not an absolute one; it is a distinction created primarily by a particular application, and many times the same resource will be interpreted in both ways simultaneously. Examples of metadata that will be exchanged using RDF include "Title", "Author" (or "Creator"), "Publisher", and "Format". RDF provides interoperability between applications that exchange machine-understandable information on the Web. RDF emphasizes facilities to enable automated processing of Web resources. RDF can be used in a variety of application areas; for example: in resource discovery to provide better search engine capabilities, in cataloging for describing the content and content relationships available at a particular Web site, page, or digital library, by intelligent software agents to facilitate knowledge sharing and exchange, in content rating, in describing collections of pages that represent a single logical "document", describing intellectual property rights of Web pages, and for expressing the privacy preferences of a user as well as the privacy policies of a Web site. RDF with digitally signed documents will be key to building the "Web of Trust" for electronic commerce, collaboration, and other applications. RDF uses XML to define a foundation for processing metadata and complements XML. Whereas XML can be used as a general way to transport data on the Web given prior agreement between the parties on the specific form of the data to be transported, RDF layers on top of XML a general form for a broad category of data. When the XML data is declared to be of the RDF format, applications will be able to understand much of the interpretation of the data without prior arrangement. www.w3c.org

Open Market announces agreement with Vignette
2/24/1999

Open Market, Inc. announced a joint marketing and technology agreement with Vignette Corporation. This collaboration combines Open Market's Internet commerce solution, Transact, with Vignette's StoryServer 4.Under the terms of the agreement, Open Market and Vignette will jointly develop and market an extension toolkit which will primarily serve to expedite deployment and accelerate time to market of the complete Internet Relationship Management and order management solution. This combined solution will help online businesses customize their offerings to each customer's preferences and then provide order management, transaction processing, and customer service capabilities. www.openmarket.com, www.vignette.com

Brio to acquire Sqribe
2/24/1999

Brio Technology Inc., a supplier of Business intelligence software, said yesterday it will buy Sqribe Technologies, a provider of enterprise portal software. The price is about $270 million. The companies said they will integrate their product lines. Upon the closing of the transaction, former Brio shareholders will hold approximately 55% of the combined company, with former Sqribe shareholders holding approximately 45%. www.brio.com, www.sqribe.com

Open Text introduces Livelink Activator for BASIS
2/23/1999

Open Text Corporation announced the release of Livelink Activator for BASIS. Livelink Activator for BASIS extends Livelink to the BASIS community. BASIS databases, records, documents and pre-defined queries are integrated with Livelink knowledge management features such as folders, project workflows, discussions, task lists, enterprise-wide file distribution, and workspaces. BASIS is used to manage large collections of catalogued information in special libraries and corporate information centers. BASIS was originally developed by Information Dimensions, which was acquired by Open Text Corporation in June 1998 and is now an integrated division of Open Text. Activator for BASIS is available immediately. It is priced at US$25,000 per Livelink server.

Robert P. Lee named CEO at Inxight Software
2/23/1999

Inxight Software, a Xerox (XRX) New Enterprise Company, announced the appointment of Robert P. Lee as president and chief executive officer. Inxight Software develops information visualization and knowledge extraction software components critical for online publishing, knowledge management, and business intelligence. As CEO, Lee will direct the company's core OEM business for independent software vendors. He will also develop new business strategies to capitalize on the use of Inxight products by other corporations in their internal applications. In addition, Lee will oversee the development and marketing of new OEM components and end user applications based on Xerox Corporation research in visualization and natural language processing. Prior to Inxight, Lee was CEO of Formulab Neuronetics, a public Australian computer company, and chairman, CEO, and president of Insignia Solutions, a software company he took public in 1995. Previous management background includes executive vice president at Symantec, senior vice president at Shared Medical Systems, and eleven years with IBM. www.inxight.com

GE information services introduces GE InterLinx
2/23/1999

GE Information Services has introduced GE InterLinx, a multipurpose message brokering system. GE InterLinx enables businesses to centralize, expand and manage their Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) initiatives, as well as address Electronic Commerce/Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) gateway requirements. This engine, which operates on the Windows NT platform simplifies the complex integration of information between business applications. GE InterLinx's XML capability identifies XML objects, parses, and routes them to applications that support XML. www.geis.com

Interleaf and Object Design to cross license technologies
2/23/1999

Interleaf, Inc. and Object Design. announced a strategic partnership intended to leverage both companies' core competencies in XML-based solutions and improve their ability to deliver solutions specifically tailored for their customers' business needs. Interleaf and Object Design will cross license their technologies for use in Interleaf's BladeRunner and in Object Design's eXcelon. Interleaf's XML-based e-content solution, BladeRunner, will employ Object Design's object-oriented database, ObjectStore, and Interleaf's Styler&Composer will be integrated into Object Design's eXcelon, an XML data server. For BladeRunner customers, ObjectStore's Cache-Forward architecture will provide a high-speed, object-oriented repository with scalability. ObjectStore's integration with relational database management systems will further enable BladeRunner customers to leverage their current investments in legacy relational databases. Integrating Interleaf's W3C-compliant Styler&Composer into Object Design's eXcelon will provide the ability to create dynamic, personalized documents with multi-channel publishing capabilities including Web, CD-ROM and print. www.interleaf.com, www.objectdesign.com

CiTEC announces SGML/XML/HTML browser
2/23/1999

CiTEC Information, a Finnish developer of advanced information systems and document-technologies, announced component technology based on Netscape's Mozilla Open Source. DocZilla displays XML and SGML directly, just like HTML, using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and can manipulate the entire document dynamically using the Document Object Model (DOM) and JavaScript. The "DocZilla" components address the demanding requirements of complex documentation and electronic publishing systems: technical illustration, precision searching, efficient handling of extremely large documents, dynamically-generated navigators, powerful link capabilities, complex tables, and SGML. DocZilla is slated for release in the second quarter of 1999, but a "Preview" can be download from the DocZilla web site today at www.doczilla.com.

Mediasurface 2.0 launched
2/22/1999

Mediasurface announced the Mediasurface 2.0 Enterprise Content. New features include a Content Gateway that allows integration with delivery and web design features from leading software vendors including, BroadVision, Vignette, Macromedia. Among the new features of Mediasurface 2.0 are the Content Gateway, XML support and integration of email with workflow functions. Mediasurface 2.0's multi-server synchronization functionality now also enables full support for content sharing amongst sites and vendors' systems. Mediasurface users can now deliver their content using the one-to-one marketing product of their choice. By utilizing the Content Gateway Module, real time content can be shared between Mediasurface 2.0 and existing proprietary delivery engines and custom built flat file sites. This allows users to work with existing tools from vendors including: BroadVision, Vignette, ATG, Engage and Point 4, thus preserving their existing site investment. Mediasurface implementations are licensed by servers with entry-level single- server sites at $25,000. Typical enterprise implementations then scale to multi- server configurations of $200,000 and above. www.mediasurface.com

Elite signs agreement with Eastman
2/22/1999

Elite Technologies, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of CONCAP, Inc., announced that it has signed an agreement with Eastman Software to provide solutions for Eastman Software's dynamic work management solutions. Eastman Software. Elite Technologies strategic alliance with Eastman Software will provide Elite Technologies with new growth opportunities within their Outsource division. Elite Technologies, Inc. specializes in project based software development, technical staffing augmentation services, consulting and commercial product development. www.eastmansoftware.com

Open Text to incorporate Adobe PDF Forms
2/19/1999

Open Text and Adobe announced Open Text's Livelink Forms, using Adobe's Acrobat. The Livelink Forms/Adobe Module will support common business transactions that require structured data. Livelink's knowledge management services support the new forms integration, providing version histories of forms and audit trails, forms security, workflow routing and searchable form data. By combining the new forms functionality with existing PDF viewing, document management and byte serving, Livelink now offers companies electronic forms functionality for collaborative knowledge management. The Livelink Forms--Adobe Module will be offered as an optional module to Livelink. The Module is shipping now and priced at $25,000. www.opentext.com

Verity announces promotions
2/18/1999

Verity announced the promotions of Todd K. Yamami to the position of corporate controller, and James E. Ticehurst to the position of vice president of Finance and Administration. Yamami, who joined Verity in 1995, was previously the company's director of Finance and Accounting. Ticehurst, who joined Verity in 1988, was previously vice president of administration and corporate controller. Both Yamami and Ticehurst are corporate officers of Verity, Inc. www.verity.com

Inso and Basis technology announce partnership
2/18/1999

Inso Corporation and Basis Technology Corporation announced a technology and service partnership at Inso's International User Group Conference in New York City. Under the agreement, Basis has developed Korean and Chinese (traditional and simplified) "pluggable" language system modules that drop into DynaText, Inso's Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based professional publishing system. In addition, Basis will provide support for the "language modules and will receive a royalty on future sales of DynaText that incorporate this new functionality. The pluggable language system modules developed by Basis Technology will allow DynaText to correctly process, index, and render text in Chinese (simplified and traditional) and Korean. www.inso.com, www.basistech.com

Interleaf ads $4.2 million in private placement
2/17/1999

Interleaf, Inc. announced the company has closed the private placement investment of $4.2 million, part of Interleaf's previously announced capital improvement initiatives. In this private placement, major stockholders and members of Interleaf's senior management team purchased 1,761,167 shares of common stock at $2.40 per share for total proceeds to the Company of $4,226,800. The transaction closed on February 16, 1999. All shares will be registered for resale pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed with the SEC. www.interleaf.com

Forte software announces enterprise application integration unit, new VP
2/16/1999

Forte Software, Inc., announced the formation of an Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Business Unit to accelerate business opportunities and provide focused expertise to the integration market. The company also announced the promotion of Jonathan McKay as vice president of the EAI Business Unit.The formation of the EAI Business Unit will encompass Forte's comprehensive integration line, which includes business process integration, technology adapters, open middleware, and application deployment, as well as the Forte Adapter Series, which are Forte's XML-based application package adapters. The company recently announced Adapters for SAP R/2 and R/3, as well as Vantive Enterprise with additional Adapters planned later in the year. www.forte.com

Entrust Technologies partners with Documentum
2/16/1999

Entrust Technologies Inc., supplier of managed public-key infrastructure (PKI) solutions, has partnered with Doumentum, Inc., to authenticate web access and to deliver integration of digital signatures using X.509 certificates into Doucumentum's EDMS 98. This integration provides security to the pharmaceutical industry and other process manufacturing companies for the management of documents, policies and procedures. The two companies also plan to work together to integrate Entrust/PKI features with industry-specific applications built upon Documentum's EDMS '98.The joint solution leverages Doucumentum's EDMS and Entrust public-key infrastructure technology to solve some of the business problems facing process manufacturing: streamlining document approvals, managing records and reports for good manufacturing practice compliance, and improving the exchange of information between departments and organizations. This solution ensures that only those who are authorized to see and change the files are allowed access to the document. www.documentum.com, www.entrust.com

Inso announces product data management division
2/16/1999

Inso Corporation today announced the formation of a new Product Data Management (PDM) Division. Headquartered in Milpitas, California, Inso's new PDM Division was created after the company's recent acquisition of Sherpa Systems Corporation, the developers of SherpaWorks. Paul R. Anderson, formerly vice president of corporate development at Inso, has been named vice president and general manager of the new PDM Division. As vice president and general manager, Mr. Anderson will oversee the continued development of the SherpaWorks product line and other PDM solutions, as well as the integration of Sherpa technology into Inso's Enterprise Information Platform. Prior to joining Inso, Mr. Anderson held various senior management positions at Adobe Systems Incorporated. Stephen Baunach, Sherpa's former chief technology officer, assumes the role of vice president and chief technology officer for the PDM Division. In this role, Mr. Baunach will continue to manage PDM product development, aid in extending Inso's expertise in managing and publishing product-related information and lead the evolution of Inso's PDM strategy. Inso has also appointed Stephen Schreifer as the vice president of worldwide sales for PDM products. Prior to joining Inso, Mr. Schreifer held senior sales positions at SDRC. www.inso.com

Adobe releases Acrobat 4.0
2/16/1999

Adobe Systems Inc. announced the latest version of Acrobat. Acrobat 4.0 adds a new set of annotation and security tools for transforming and conveying documents written in different formats. The new Adobe PDFMaker utility also lets users convert Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files from within those applications. Acrobat 4.0 captures Web pages or entire Web sites and turns them into fully formatted PDF files. The application also can secure files through a certificate system that validates users' identities. 4.0 will ship in the second half of the year, at $249. Users can upgrade from earlier versions for $99. www.adobe.com

PC DOCS/Fulcrum announces vertical business units
2/12/1999

PC DOCS/Fulcrum announced it will re-focus its current organization into six different operating Business Units to address the Professional Services (including Legal), Financial Services, Manufacturing, Government, OEM, and ISO markets. www.pcdocs.com

Lockheed's IBS Integrates Formtek
2/12/1999

Lockheed Martin today announced the integration of Formtek, A Lockheed Martin Company into its Integrated Business Solutions Company (IBS). Lockheed Martin's Integrated Business Solutions Company will create a new business area focused on Formtek's commercial software product FORMTEK:ORION, and services focused on the Integrated Document Management market. The new business area will be headed by Dennis M. Scanlon, vice president for Integrated Document Management Solutions, and will report to Gary P. Mann, president, Integrated Business Solutions Company. www.formtek.com

InSystems Technologies announces Calligo Toolkit
2/11/1999

InSystems Technologies, Inc., a provider of knowledge-based document processing solutions for financial services, announced the Calligo Toolkit, a software developer's kit for Calligo. Calligo Toolkit will provide customers and alliances the ability to integrate their current applications such as ratings, contact management, or policy administration software with Calligo, InSystems document assembly, management and workflow solution. www.insystems.com

Object Design, Inc., Announces Record Financial Results
2/11/1999

Object Design, Inc. announced that it reported record financial results for the 1998 fiscal year. Object Design reported total revenues of $62.4 million for the 12 months ended December 31, 1998, up 32 percent from $47.3 million reported for the 12 months ended December 31, 1997. Software license revenues were $44.0 million for the 12 months ended December 31, 1998, up 31 percent from $33.6 million for the prior year. Net income for the 12 months ended December 31, 1998, was $4.8 million or $0.17 per share compared to $800,000 or $0.03 per share for the 12 months ended December 31, 1997. For the three months ended December 31, 1998, Object Design reported total revenues of $17.1 million, up 43 percent from $11.9 million for the same period last year. Software license revenues increased by 34 percent to $11.8 million for the three months ended December 31, 1998, from $8.8 million for the same period in 1997. Net income for the three months ended December 31, 1998, was $1.9 million or $0.06 per share, as compared to a net loss of $1.5 million or $0.05 per share for the same period last year.

Dataware announces fourth quarter results
2/11/1999

Dataware Technologies, Inc. announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 1998. For the fourth quarter of 1998, Dataware reported net income of $946,000, or $0.10 per share, on revenues of $8.6 million, excluding one-time charges totaling $1.6 million taken in the fourth quarter. These results compare to net income of $252,000, or $0.03 per share, on revenues of $7.8 million in the fourth quarter of 1997, excluding a one-time charge totaling $2.2 million. For the year ended December 31, 1998, Dataware reported net income of $1.9 million, or $0.20 per share, on revenues of $33 million, excluding one- time charges related to the acquisition of Green Book in the first quarter of $450,000 and the other one-time charges taken in the fourth quarter of $1.6 million. This compares to a 1997 loss of $5.8 million, or $(0.76) per share, on revenues of $37 million. After the accretion of preferred stock totaling $677,000, the net loss available to common stockholders for 1997 was $6.5 million, or $(0.85) per share. After the one-time charges, Dataware reported a net loss of $699,000, or ($0.08) per share, for the quarter which compares to a $1.9 million loss, or ($0.21) per share, for the fourth quarter of 1997. The Company reported a net loss of $207,000, or ($0.02) per share for the year, which compares to a loss of $5.8 million, or ($0.76) per share, for 1997 before the accretion of preferred stock. www.datware.com

W3C Releases Draft of Vector Graphics Specification
2/10/1999

The World Wide Web Consortium today released the first public working draft of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) specification. The purpose of this publication is to encourage public comments and contributions. SVG is written in XML, which up to now has mainly been used for text. This draft is the first step in the development of a vendor-neutral, cross-platform and ubiquitous Web-specific format for XML vector graphics. Current members of the W3C SVG Working Group are key industry players who brought their graphical and Web expertise to the design of this specification. In alphabetical order: Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Corel, HP, IBM, Inso, Macromedia, Microsoft, Netscape, Quark, RAL, Sun, and Visio. Following W3C's practice, the SVG Working Group provides a public mailing list (www-svg@w3.org) for comments in addition to the feedback channels defined by the W3C Process. www.w3c.org

Sequoia,CEDITI Software Form Partnership
2/10/1999

Belgium-Based CEDITI, and Sequoia Software, today announced formation of a strategic marketing and development agreement between the two firms. The relationship will enable CEDITI, a value-added-reseller (VAR) and integrator of information technology in Europe, to resell and create new product packages with Sequoia Interchange2000 (i2K) or to use it in integration projects. Under the licensing agreement with Sequoia, CEDITI will be a direct distribution channel for i2K for Belgium providing training, technical support, marketing and sales. www.sequoiasw.com, www.cediti.be

Impact Innovations, Sequoia Software Form Partnership
2/9/1999

Sequoia Software Corp. and Impact Innovations Corp. (IMPACT) today announced formation of a strategic marketing and development agreement. The relationship will enable Impact Innovations, a VAR and integrator of information technology, to resell and create new product packages with Sequoia Interchange98 (i98) or to use it in integration projects. Under the licensing agreement with Sequoia, IMPACT will be a direct distribution channel for Interchange98 providing training, technical support, marketing and sales. The agreement takes effect immediately. i98 provides a distributed XML and document repository, data distribution and replication services, XML publishing, XML data entry, standardized security, and workflow with content-based routing. www.sequoiasw.com, www.iiginc.com

LexiQuest and Verity Announce Reseller Agreement
2/9/1999

LexiQuest, Inc., announced a strategic reseller agreement with Verity, Inc. Under the terms of the agreement Verity will resell LexiQuest technology and products through the Verity sales force. The agreement gives Verity customers access to LexiQuest's linguistic technology. The LexiQuest technology allows people to use everyday language to create search requests for Verity Knowledge Retrieval systems. These two technologies combine to give many types of users with different levels of skill and training tools to achieve results across a broad array of information resources. Because the LexiQuest technology includes a customizable linguistic knowledge base, it can be tuned to understand language that is specific to a given industry or discipline. The technology provides an intelligent linguistic interface that is easy for non-researchers to use. www.verity.com, www.lexiquest.com

QuickStream Announces Interfaces for Its Document Management System
2/9/1999

QuickStream Software, Inc. announced three new interfaces to its Java-based DocCentral document management system. The QuickStream Developers Kit (QDK), Open Document Management API (ODMA) and HTML Interface are available for beta testing with a scheduled commercial release in March. Providing a base for the other interfaces, the QDK allows the creation of custom functions on top of the DocCentral application. The QDK is a set of simple Java functions that can be integrated into Java applications and Java applets. Developers can use the QDK to create customized features and incorporate them into DocCentral. Individually, the DocCentral server software is $2,950.00, the Java-based Director client is $495.00 and the HTML-based Associate client is $49.95. The small work group twenty-five user bundle includes Java server software, four Director clients and twenty-one Associate clients for $4,995.00. The large work group fifty user bundle is $8,995.00 and includes Java server software, ten Director clients and forty Associate clients. QuickStream also offers a "Get Started" bundle that can be downloaded from its website at www.quickstream.com

Poet gets funding
2/9/1999

POET Software Corporation announced the completion of a $9.9 million financing round. POET Holdings, Inc., the parent company for the POET group, received $6 million in equity investments in exchange for "Preferred Series D" shares in December 1998 from both new and existing investors. New investors include Private Equity Bridge Invest Ltd.(PEBI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Private Equity Holding AG of Zug, Switzerland, and the German Technologie-Beteiligungs-Gesellschaft bmH ("tbg"). Previous investors who also participated in the "Preferred Series D" financing are European Technologieholding, Sigma Partners, El Dorado Ventures, INNOVACOM I, Atlas Venture Europe Fund BV, and Lawrence Owen Brown. In addition, tbg invested $3.9 million through a convertible long-term note. www.poet.com

Mint announces support for XML
2/9/1999

MINT Communication Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Oshap Technologies Ltd. and a provider of Enterprise Application Integration solutions to the financial services industry, announced support for XML. Financial institutions are adopting XML as a new standard because its flexible structure can simplify and speed the process of integrating and transmitting complex financial information between banks, securities firms, and clearing networks. The MINT/Rule Manager Module allows users to import and export XML metadata, and to integrate the data with other financial applications and industry standards like FIX and SWIFT, avoiding the time and cost for manually re-defining and transforming message formats. www.mintech.com

IntraNet Solutions Announces Third Quarter Results
2/9/1999

IntraNet Solutions, Inc., announced its financial results for the third quarter ended Dec. 31, 1998. Total revenues for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 1998 decreased to $2.5 million from $5.0 million in the prior year's quarter as a result of divesting the company's hardware integration group. Increases of $649, 078 in software, technical services and support revenues were offset by a decrease in hardware integration group revenues of $3.1 million. Loss from continuing operations was $132,057 or $0.01 per share. This compared to a loss from continuing operations of $122,268 or a loss of $0.02 per share in the prior year's quarter. Total revenues for the nine months ended Dec. 31, 1998 decreased to $11.0 million from $14.6 million in the prior year period. Increases of $1.7 million in software, technical services and support revenues were offset by a decrease in hardware integration group revenues of $5.3 million. Loss from continuing operations was $355,072, which included a gain of $516,934 from the sale of the hardware integration unit, or a loss of $0.04 per share. This compared to a loss from continuing operations of $1,002,016, or a loss of $0.13 per share in the prior year period. www.intranetsol.com

CAP Ventures Announces XML Study at Documation
2/9/1999

CAP Ventures Inc., announced the industry's first market study on early adopters of XML. The formal announcement and study scope was unveiled at Documation '99 West in Santa Clara, CA. The study is a project of CAP Ventures' Dynamic Content Software Strategies Consulting Service (DSS). The research phase of the project is currently in progress. The study will provide vital market information to software vendors and service providers. In addition, it will prove useful for end-user companies who are evaluating the viability of XML projects. The research will uncover user motivations for employing XML, identify the corporate applications it will be used for most frequently by early adopters, and estimate spending on XML projects through 1999. It will also gauge the industry standards and vocabularies related to XML in which users are most interested. Data for the study will be collected through 250 telephone interviews with companies that have XML-based IT projects either planned or underway. www.capv.com/dss

Epicentric Previews Portal Solution For Corporate Apps
2/9/1999

Epicentric, Inc., publicly previewed its portal solution enabling companies to build custom enterprise portals for intranets, extranets and the Internet at Demo '99. The Epicentric solution delivers ownership of corporate portals from a hosting, branding and design perspective. The company will provide its portal solution as either an enterprise server or hosted service and also license aggregation technology to vertical portal sites on the Web. Epicentric expects to ship its portal server in the second quarter of 1999. Beta sites include enterprise customers such as the United States Postal Service (USPS), BAAN and Philips that will be deploying the product server in both intranet and extranet settings. Epicentric's technology takes advantage of emerging XML-based standards such as the Document Object Model (DOM) and allows the server to easily communicate with any existing information source. Additionally, Epicentric is a member of the W3C and the Information & Content Exchange (ICE) Advisory Council, a standards body launched to facilitate content exchange. www.epicentric.com

Extricity Software Announces Support for Commerce XML Standard
2/8/1999

Extricity Software, announced support for Commerce XML (cXML), an open standard for business-to-business e-commerce that facilitates the exchange of catalog and transaction information between buyers and suppliers. Developed by a group of over 50 leading companies including Extricity, cXML is a suite of lightweight, end-to-end protocols that allow trading partners to exchange catalog content and transaction management information securely across the Internet. Extricity has announced integration with its industry-leading Alliance application and cXML. Extricity and Ariba will begin pilot implementations using cXML over the Internet in Q2 1999. cXML was developed with input from more than 50 organizations, including e-commerce companies such as Ariba, Extricity Software, InterWorld Corporation, Ironside Technologies, Poet Software, Saqqara Systems and Sterling Commerce. Contributing companies included 1Nine Systems, Anderson Unicom Group, barnesandnoble.com, BT Office Products International, CAP (a division of the McGraw-Hill Construction Information Group), Chemdex Corporation, Collabria, Compucom, ComputerLiteracy.com, Cort Furniture Rental, Harbinger Corporation, Life Technologies, NCR Systemedia Group, Office Depot, RoweCom, Staples and US Technologies.www.extricity.com

FileNET Appoints Vice President
2/8/1999

FileNET Corp. announced the appointment of Andy Stameson as vice president and chief information officer to expand the breadth and depth of its information technology (IT) department. This executive appointment builds upon FileNET's internal management team as Stameson will work to increase productivity, enhance operations and strengthen global IT programs throughout the company. As vice president and chief information officer, Stameson will oversee all of FileNET's internal business systems and network communications operations on a global basis. Stameson brings a strong information technology (IT) background to FileNET with previous executive positions at Sprint PCS and Airtouch Cellular. At FileNET he will provide strategic direction and administration to FileNET's IT staff while managing the company's internal business systems and network support infrastructure. www.filenet.com

Ironside Technologies Announces Support of cXML
2/8/1999

Ironside Technologies Inc., a supplier of sell-side business-to-business electronic commerce solutions for the mid-tier manufacturing and distribution market, announced that it will support Commerce XML (cXML), an open standard for e-commerce that reduces on-line business costs by providing a lightweight protocol for exchange of supplier content and transaction information via and XML-based open architecture. www.ironside.com

Onesoft Announces the Availability of OneCommerce
2/8/1999

OneSoft Corporation, announced the availability of version 2.0 of their Internet commerce system, OneCommerce. The new version is designed to provide businesses with the flexibility to implement multiple, new, and changing business models for Internet commerce, and grow with their success. OneCommerce provides businesses the flexibility to change and adapt their Internet commerce channel to any online business model. OneCommerce componentization is on a fundamental level separating data, function, presentation, and control. The plug-and-play nature of these components allows businesses to combine data, function and presentation in unique ways, differentiating them and allowing them to more effectively leverage their Internet sales channel. www.onesoft.com

Poet to support cXML
2/8/1999

POET Software, announced support for Commerce XML -- or cXML, an open-standard subset of XML for electronic commerce designed to reduce online business costs by facilitating the exchange of content and transaction information between buyers and sellers. www.poet.com

Quest software announces release of vista plus 4.1
2/8/1999

Quest Software, Inc. announced a new release of its Vista Plus Report-Based Information Management (RBIM) solution. Vista Plus 4.1 provides enhanced report management as well as electronic document management capabilities. A client/server-based solution, Vista Plus automatically captures, stores, indexes, and distributes mission-critical report data of any Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions. www.quests.com

Softquad Software Announces New Add-Ons to HoTMetaL
2/8/1999

SoftQuad Software Inc., announced new value-added tools for HoTMetaL Application Server, its low-cost solution for deploying e-commerce, customer service and personalized content applications. These tools--Quick Apps and Power Parts--are pre-built mini-applications that are ideal for end-users and developers alike, enabling them to increase the functionality of their sites with drag-and-drop ease. Quick Apps and Power Parts are available at no charge via SoftQuad Software's new web site, www.hmfx.com. HoTMetaL users can access these sophisticated tools via the HoTMetaL Resource Manager. Once loaded into the Resource Manager, users just drag and drop to add the mini-applications to their web sites. Absolutely no programming or testing is required. Power Parts are building blocks that enhance a Web site's productivity instantly. They are also developed using Miva scripts, and are accessed through the HoTMetaL Resource Manager. Power Parts include a Mail-to form, a banner ad rotator and statistical analysis tool, and a robust password protection system with the ability to add and delete users, create and change passwords, and more. To add Power Parts to a site, users just select one from the Resource Manager, define a few parameters and settings, and then insert it onto their site. www.softquad.com

Sterling Commerce to support cXML
2/8/1999

Sterling Commerce, Inc., a provider of business-to-business electronic commerce software and services, announced, in conjunction with Ariba Technologies, its plans to support cXML. cXML is a proposed open industry standard for electronic commerce that reduces online business costs by facilitating the exchange of content and transaction information over the Internet between buyers and suppliers. cXML provides another method for companies, such as Sterling Commerce customers, to automate business processes, both internally and via commerce communities. www.sterlingcommerce.com

OMG members support XMI
2/5/1999

Unisys, IBM, Oracle, Platinum, Fujitsu, Softeam, Rational, Sprint, Sybase, Xerox, MCI Systemhouse, Boeing, Ardent, ICONIX, Integrated Systems, Verilog, NCR, NTT and Daimler-Benz are some of the vendors who are collaborating on the Object Management Group's new XMI (XML Metadata Interchange) specification. XMI is a new open industry standard that combines the benefits of the web-based XML standard for defining, validating, and sharing document formats on the web with the benefits of the object-oriented Unified Modeling Language (UML). It provides application developers with a common language for specifying, visualizing, constructing, and documenting distributed objects and business models. The XMI specification quickly moved through the OMG's Technology Adoption process and is currently undergoing the formal technology adoption vote by the OMG membership. Market demand for XMI is encouraging vendors such as IBM, Unisys and Oracle to expedite implementations of the technology and products as early as mid-1999. www.omg.com

Open Market fourth quarter results
2/4/1999

Open Market, Inc., has announced results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 1998. Net revenues were $16.1 million, compared to net revenues of $18.6 million for the fourth quarter of 1997. Net loss for Q4 1998, which includes the charge of $2.0 million for restructuring costs, was $6.4 million or $0.18 per share. This compared to a net loss of $3.0 million or $0.09 per share for the same period of 1997. Net loss excluding the charge for restructuring was $4.3 million or $0.12 per share. For the year ended December 31, 1998, revenues were $62.1 million compared to $61.3 million of revenues for the year ended December 31, 1997. Net loss for the year ended December 31, 1998 was $34.9 million or $1.04 per share, compared to a net loss of $58.0 million or $1.87 per share in 1997. Excluding the charges for in-process research and development in connection with acquisitions and the charge for restructuring costs, the net loss for the year ended December 31, 1998 was $22.1 million or $0.66 per share, compared to a net loss of $23.8 million or $0.77 per share in 1997. www.openmarket.com

PC Docs second quarter results
2/4/1999

PC DOCS Group International Inc. has reported its second quarter results. Revenue for the second quarter ended December 31, 1998 was $45.5 million, a 52% increase over the $29.9 million for the same quarter last year and 21% over the $37.5 million for the first quarter this year. Software license revenue rose by 41% to $23.9 million from $17.0 million last year and was 31% over the $18.4 million in the prior quarter. Compared to last year, revenue for the enterprise document management business was up by 66% and by 40% over last quarter. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization in the second quarter were $7.6 million compared with $4.3 million in the previous year. Net earnings were $2.8 million compared to $0.98 million for the same period last year. Fully diluted earnings per share were $0.12 compared to $0.05 in the previous year and $0.01 in the previous quarter. For the six months to date, revenue was $83.0 million, 49% over the $55.7 million for the same period last year. Net earnings, excluding the reversal of restructuring charge accruals, were $1.8 million for the six months to date compared to $1.6 million last year and fully diluted earnings per share were $0.07. www.pcdocs.com

Interleaf announces Interleaf 7
2/3/1999

Interleaf, Inc. announced the availability of Interleaf 7 (I7). This next-generation e-Content publishing solution enables workgroups in either Microsoft Windows or UNIX environments to author and publish complex documents to all current Web and e-Content formats - HTML, XML, SGML or PDF. I7 provides Interleaf's installed base of 2 million users with a new way to publish complex Web documents by eliminating the need to tie content creation to the publishing format. www.interleaf.com

Bitstream launches Pageflex subsidiary
2/3/1999

Bitstream Inc. announced the formation of a new, wholly owned subsidiary, PageFlex Inc., whose exclusive mission will be to develop, market, and support on-demand publishing software and related technology. On-demand publishing is the ability to dynamically generate business collateral, reports, and other kinds of documents directly from XML-formatted text and graphics data, and personalizing them on the fly for a particular customer. In particular, PageFlex Inc. will focus its sales and marketing efforts on two products: PageFlex, an XML-based publishing application that enables the fully automatic production of customized documents, and NuDoc, an XML-based composition engine, which serves as PageFlex's underlying formatting engine. The current officers and directors of Bitstream Inc. will serve as officers and directors of PageFlex Inc. www.bitstream.com

Bluestone contributes XML/Java freeware
2/2/1999

Bluestone Software, Inc., the creator of Sapphire/Web, announced XwingML. XwingML is a public domain contribution from Bluestone labs that accelerates the learning curve for early adopters of XML/Java tools. Available today, XwingML is provided free-of-charge by Bluestone and can be downloaded at www.bluestone.com. XwingML was developed by Bluestone labs as the framework for creating Bluestone's commercial dynamic XML products: Bluestone XML-Server, and Bluestone Visual-XML, a toolkit for building XML applications.

Arbortext Announces $10.25 million financing
2/1/1999

Arbortext, Inc announced it has received $10.25 million in second round financing. This round of funding was led by Invesco Private Capital and included investments from Norwest Venture Partners (as previously reported) and Access Capital. It will be used primarily to expand sales and marketing efforts. www.arbortext.com

Arbortext appoints new executives
2/1/1999

ArborText also announced the appointments of new members to its executive management team. Joan Nevins has been named chief financial officer. Nevins joins Arbortext from PictureTel Corporation, where she served in several roles including CFO, vice president of marketing and vice president of Strategic Alliances. Steve Chambers joins the Company as vice president of marketing, where he will be responsible for all strategic and tactical marketing activities. Chambers spent six years at PictureTel Corporation, where he was most recently the vice president of worldwide marketing. Denis LeBlanc, formerly VP and general manager of Rational Software, was named vice president of North American sales, Kevin Jackson joins Arbortext as director of business development to lead strategic planning. PG Bartlett will assume the role of vice president of product marketing reporting to Steve Chambers. www.arbortext.com

Eastman's document manager for exchange version 1.1 ships
2/1/1999

Eastman Software, Inc. announced that it is shipping Document Manager for Microsoft Exchange (DMX) version 1.1, adding document management capabilities to Exchange Server and Outlook environments. DMX is part of the EASTMAN SOFTWARE Work Management for Microsoft Exchange family of products. Version 1.1 includes version control, document locking and audit trails. Pricing is $149 but is available as a free upgrade to version 1.0 customers. It has been localized for use in Dutch, French, German, Spanish, and Swedish. Japanese will be available in February 1999. www.eastmansoftware.com

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