News For August, 1999

Arbortext, Inc.announced the immediate availability of the 2.0 release of Epic, XML-based software that now supports two-way conversions between Microsoft Word and XML. With this feature and others, Epic now addresses three tiers of e-Content creators and authors within an organization, extending its capabilities across the enterprise. Epic's round-trip conversion capability makes it possible for a wide range of users to create feature-rich XML content with Word. Organizations implementing XML-based systems are recognizing three tiers of users: power users, who need access to powerful XML creation and administration tools; occasional users, who need to work directly with XML and enterprise repositories; and Word users, who need to convert Word files to XML (and validate the content) and receive XML information in Word format. www.arbortext.com

IntraNet Solutions Announces PDF to HTML Conversion
8/31/1999

IntraNet Solutions, Inc. announced a new PDF to HTML conversion capability for the Intra.doc! Management System. The new capability converts PDF documents into HTML (including those that have embedded GIF or JPEG images) and displays them in a standard Web browser without having to use Acrobat(R) Reader or other client software. Key benefits of the Intra.doc! and Adobe integration include the ability to view, navigate and search PDF documents with any browser without using Acrobat Reader. Users will get faster performance in browsing large files while still retaining the original fidelity of the PDF format. The PDF to HTML conversion capability also provides users with a toolbar so they can easily navigate and search for content without invoking a helper application. Because the product is server-based and works with any browser and standard operating systems, like Windows NT and Sun Solaris, all users will be able to access, view and navigate PDF generated documents across the enterprise. The core Intra.doc! Management System automatically converts all major file formats to PDF; Intra.doc! Legacy, a paper-to-Web scanning solution, incorporates Adobe capture technology; and Adobe Forms fill-in functionality is integrated with Intra.doc! Forms to allow fast and easy forms fill-in and meta data extraction capabilities. The PDF to HTML Conversion capability for Intra.doc! is available now and pricing starts at $15,000 USD and is sold as an optional module to the Intra.doc! Management System for Windows NT and Sun Solaris environments. www.intranetsol.com

Adobe Ships InDesign
8/31/1999

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the immediate shipment of Adobe InDesign, a new page-layout application and the cornerstone of the company’s new platform for professional publishing solutions. InDesign software, built from the ground up, is based on a new open, object-oriented architecture that is highly extensible, thus greatly reducing development cycles and enabling Adobe to rapidly evolve the platform. This architecture creates a core on which third-party developers and system integrators can deliver custom publishing solutions for magazines, advertising agencies, catalogs, retailers, design studios, and newspapers. www.adobe.com  

This is the long awaited alternative to QuarkXPress, and ought to shake up the old DTP market a bit.

Adobe Unveils New Technologies
8/31/1999

Adobe Systems also announced pre-release availability of two new technologies, Adobe PDF Merchant software and Web Buy, a feature within Acrobat Reader, to its partners for testing and product integration. The technologies will enable publishers, distributors, retailers and others to make electronic content available for distribution and sale over the Internet. The company expects Adobe PDF Merchant and Acrobat Reader software with Web Buy to speed the adoption of eBooks and the use of electronic documents among businesses and consumers. Adobe partners include a range of publishers, distributors, retailers, device manufacturers, technology and service providers, each of whom maintains a specialized and important link in the publishing and delivery chain. They will begin testing and implementing Adobe PDF Merchant technology to provide titles to be distributed and sold via the Internet. Among others, Adobe is working with: Barnes & Noble, Inc.; Everybook Inc.; Fatbrain.com; 1stBooks; Glassbook, Inc.; Iomega Corporation; Octavo Corporation; Pearson PLC; R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company; Salon.com; Seybold Publications; Simon & Schuster, Inc.; and Xerox Corporation. www.adobe.com

QuarkXPress & Vignette to Integrate Via XML & ICE
8/31/1999

Vignette Corporation and Quark, Inc. announced the integration of QuarkXPress and Vignette StoryServer 4 software. The relationship between the companies promises to reduce the cost structures associated with using print content online. The announced integration will enable nearly instant deployment of QuarkXPress content on the web. At Seybold, Quark announced avenue.quark, a type of -XTensions software for QuarkXPress that will enable customers to easily tag their QuarkXPress content and extract that content in XML format. Simultaneously, Quark and Vignette announced that they have worked together to link avenue.quark with Vignette StoryServer, allowing organizations to post rich content directly into the StoryServer production workflow. Working together, the two companies' products provide a much needed, industrial-strength print-to-Web publishing solution. www.quark.com, www.vignette.com  

This is important because of the vast amount of content companies have in Quark. Even if it isn't as easy as you might think to do the conversion, at least now there is a serious Quark supported path to do so.

eBusiness Technologies Announces DynaBase 3.2
8/31/1999

eBusiness Technologies, a division of Inso Corporation announced version 3.2 of DynaBase, the division’s XML-enabled Web content management and dynamic delivery solution. Targeted for shipment in September, DynaBase 3.2 includes enhancements in the management of large data sets and searching and dynamic document assembly, and will enable businesses to easily move beyond simple, home-grown Web sites to customized, sophisticated infrastructures for e-business. New features include: Persistent cache to ensure optimal performance by automatically restoring the cache whenever the server is restarted, Multiple Webs to enable users to divide their data into separate workspaces for different groups in the corporation, Fine-grained searching support for search of tagged documents with hierarchical structures, such as HTML and XML, and Dynamic document assembly that create dynamic, personalized pages by reusing and repurposing the same document for a variety of users, which keeps content under control by reducing the amount of files and source coding. DynaBase 3.2 is targeted for shipment in September 1999. Pricing for DynaBase starts at $60,000. www.ebt.com

eBusiness Technologies Announces MediaBank 2.6
8/31/1999

eBusiness Technologies also announced version 2.6 of MediaBank, its media asset management system. Shipping in October, the upgrade will feature integration with IBM’s DB2 Digital Library and Smart Storage’s SmartStor Archive network storage solution. In addition, it will add the option of full-text searching capabilities with MediaBank FullSearch, as well as several other enhancements to increase overall speed and ease of use. MediaBank 2.6 will also provide enhanced cataloging performance, extended Quark 4.04 support and multiple updates to InterSep OPI. MediaBank 2.6 will be available in Workgroup or Enterprise Editions. It runs on Sun Solaris, SGI IRIX, IBM AIX and Windows NT servers. Enterprise database support includes Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2. www.ebt.com/mbank/index.htm

Enigma Announces Insight 5.0
8/31/1999

Enigma, Inc., announced the INSIGHT 5.0 product suite update. Enigma's INSIGHT content publishing suite delivers unified and highly functional Web and CD-ROM publications from any combination of PDF, FrameMaker, word processing, SGML/XML, and graphic/image source data. INSIGHT automates the content assembly and e-publishing process, integrating content with a wide set of integrated navigation, view, and search tools. New features within INSIGHT 5.0 include an Enhanced Illustrated Parts Catalog (eIPC), FrameMaker plus PDF support, Web user interface enhancements and Web annotation capabilities. In addition, Enigma's "Distributed Intranet" capabilities have been further automated for delivering e-publications to customer intranets and corporate portals. Incorporated within the INSIGHT 5.0 suite are packaged add-on modules and developers toolkits for integrating INSIGHT e-publications to ERP and DMS systems. www.enigma.com

Cascade Commerce Server & Profile Server Introduced
8/31/1999

Cascade Systems Inc. introduced two new products, Cascade Commerce Server and Cascade Profile Server, at the Seybold San Francisco Conference. The systems are components of Cascade’s Cross-Media Relationship Management solution and are designed to give e-merchandisers the ability to collaborate with their print counterparts to analyze, plan, create, and manage cross-media advertising, merchandising and promotional campaigns. The system enables businesses to manage their entire on-line selling process, from updating their inventory and product offerings to order fulfillment and following-up with personalized promotions. Cascade Profile Server offers Internet profiling and analysis tools for building customized one-to-one marketing programs for Internet, print, and other media. The system enables web merchants to gather rich, accurate profiles of Web site visitors. Optional decision support tools help online marketers better understand their Web audiences through detailed analysis. For businesses that need to support multiple storefronts, Cascade’s Multi-Brand Storefront option supports multiple customized storefronts using a shared infrastructure. www.cascadenet.com

This is a good example of a trend evident at the recent Seybold event (and elsewhere of course!) of the converging of print publishing and web publishing technology around e-commerce applications.

Cascade to Integrate Software from Zapotec & Adobe
8/31/1999

Cascade Systems Inc.and Zapotec Software announced an agreement to coordinate their marketing, sales and development efforts. Under the alliance, the two companies will combine the functionality of the Cascade Merchant Publishing Solution and Zapotec’s CO-OP EASY application. Jointly, they will provide catalog, retail and direct marketing companies with a way of managing all aspects of merchandising programs. The Cascade Merchant Publishing Solution enables merchants to expand and enhance customer interaction through multiple media channels, including print and the Internet. Zapotec’s CO-OP EASY software enables retailers and catalogers to effectively manage, track and claim trade allowance funds offered by manufacturers, thereby increasing sales and profitability. In a separate announcement Cascade  announced that the company has incorporated Adobe InDesign into the Cascade Merchant Publishing Solution. www.cascadenet.com

Poet Joins Allaire Alliance, Develops Plug-Ins for ColdFusion
8/31/1999

POET Software announced that they have become a member of Allaire Corporation's Allaire Alliance Partner program. POET Software has developed Web Plug-ins that integrate POET's Content Management Suite (CMS) 2.0 with Allaire's ColdFusion to provide more flexible and robust solutions for Web-based XML/SGML content management and delivery. The CMS Web Plug-ins for ColdFusion allow dynamic, Web-based XML and SGML management and delivery to any Internet browser. POET's Content Management Suite version 2.0 is the industry's only second-generation XML content server. Founded on POET's object-based XML technology, CMS 2.0 simplifies XML publishing for the technical documentation market. The CMS Web Delivery Plug-in works with ColdFusion to dynamically deliver SGML/XML content to the Web. By converting SGML/XML to HTML, applying presentation and navigation on the fly, the need for HTML page management is eliminated. In addition, the CMS Web Delivery Plug-in leverages SGML/XML's separation of content from formatting to let publishers create multiple content views for personalized content. www.poet.com.

Poet & SoftQuad Form Strategic Alliance
8/31/1999

POET Software and SoftQuad Inc. announced a strategic alliance to integrate SoftQuad's XMetaL XML authoring environment and POET Content Management Suite (CMS). The integrated products will provide customers with a complete solution for developing, managing and publishing XML content for a wide variety of e-Business applications, including web publishing, knowledge management and web-based product information. www.poet.com, www.softquad.com

Hynet Announces Directive 2.5
8/31/1999

Hynet Technologies announced the availability of HynetDirective 2.5, an XML-based content management system that transforms static document files into dynamic, reusable Information Units (IUs) for publishing to the Web and print. Hynet Directive 2.5 is designed to rapidly build Dynamic Customer Content (DCC) -- information tailored to the specific needs of individual customers -- for publishing to multiple mediums. Hynet Directive 2.5 is a single source system that captures documents created in familiar word processing applications, such as Microsoft Word, Adobe FrameMaker and XML and transforms the data blocks (paragraphs, graphics, definitions) within them into Information Units. Then, by attaching specific metadata to the IUs, they are essentially "tagged" and stored in a repository that can be accessed across the corporate environment. Information can then be recalled by virtue of the "tag" and the IUs can be reused and re-purposed to create varied pieces of corporate knowledge. The collateral can take the form of a Web site or print. www.hynet.com.

FutureTense & E-Content Partner
8/31/1999

FutureTense, Inc. and systems integrator E-Content Corporation announced that E-Content has joined the FutureTense Business Partner Program. E-Content will integrate FutureTense’s Internet Publishing System (IPS) at corporations with high-end Web sites. FutureTense and E-Content are currently planning several joint projects where they will be installing IPS. www.futuretense.com, www.e-contentcorp.com

Adobe & Xerox to Integrate Xerox ContentGuard with PDF
8/31/1999

Adobe Systems Incorporated and Xerox Corporation announced a strategic initiative to integrate Adobe PDF technology with Xerox ContentGuard rights management solution. This alliance will enable publishers to implement secure e-commerce of PDF documents, while allowing end-users to access these documents in the native Acrobat Reader. Adobe and Xerox will also jointly support the definition and promotion of an open standard for rights specification design around the needs of the publishing industry. Initial availability of this integration will be this fall, and offered as a free upgrade to existing ContentGuard customers. www.adobe.com. www.contentguard.com.

Inxight Introduces Summary Server
8/31/1999

Inxight Software announced Inxight Summary Server, one of the many planned building blocks in its new family of Open Portal Products, knowledge extraction and information visualization software specifically designed for corporate intranet users to increase productivity and the serendipitous discovery of useful information. Inxight Summary Server automatically and instantly extracts key sentences from a document and presents them to the viewer in a summary format. These summaries let users quickly and accurately preview the contents of a document without having to first download and read the entire contents. Additionally, summary length and emphasis can be customized to satisfy specific user needs. Summary Server is available in eight languages, making it ideal for use in global intranets, document repositories, or knowledge management systems. As with other products in Inxight’s Open Portal Products, Inxight Summary Server contributes to pervasive preview by helping intranet users identify the right information in a fraction of the time it takes today. Exploiting advanced computational linguistics algorithms developed at Xerox PARC and Xerox Grenoble, Inxight Summary Server can also present summaries based on a user’s search query changing the overall document summary to a summary that emphasizes the user’s interest. Inxight Summary Server is easily installed within a company’s web servers and other existing portal platforms such as search engines, collaboration platforms and databases. Inxight Summary Server will be available in October 1999. Summary Server is priced at $24,995 per server. www.inxight.com

Inxight Site Lens Also Announced
8/31/1999

Inxight Software also announced Site Lens Studio, one of the first of many planned building blocks in the Open Portal Products family of products, knowledge extraction and information visualization software specifically designed for corporate intranet users to increase productivity and the serendipitous discovery of useful information. With no easy way to find information on corporate networks and intranets, users spend more time reading through massive amounts of information rather than making use of it. Site Lens Studio creates interactive site maps, called Site Lenses, that display contents in relation to each other enabling users to find relevant information quickly.  Users can look ahead and preview web-based information without having to click through dozens of pages “in transit” to the page they really want.  When they find something of interest, a double-click downloads the page or document they want. The software product is also highly scalable, designed to grow with an organization’s needs. Site Lens Studio will be available in October 1999. Site Lens Studio is priced at $4,995 per server.  Purchasers are licensed to publish as many Site Lenses as they like to the server, as well as copy the Studio client for use by anyone creating and publishing Site Lenses to the server.  www.inxight.com

Xerox Ships Rights Management Solution for Digital Documents
8/30/1999

Xerox Corporation announced availability of ContentGuard, a comprehensive new product suite designed to fuel document e-commerce for the publishing market. Combining Xerox’ expertise in the document arena with extensive rights management research undertaken at PARC, the solution enables persistent protection and monitoring of digital content – preventing copyright infringement and unauthorized redistribution, while tracking customer usage. The ContentGuard family comprises: ContentGuard Publisher converts documents from many popular file formats, including Microsoft Word and PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat PDF to encrypted Self-Protecting Documents; ContentGuard Marketplace is an online storefront that integrates with popular e-commerce servers; ContentGuard Rights Server is a back-office server for handling all operations associated with ongoing rights tracking, authorization and enforcement. www.xerox.com

Are publishers and consumers ready for this yet? Earlier attempts haven't caught on, but it is only a matter of time. This looks like a practical enough approach.

Worldweb.Net Introduces Quark Interface & Appointments
8/30/1999

Worldweb.net of Alexandria, Virginia announced the introduction of its QuarkXPress Xtension, an optional feature set for Expressroom 6.0 that enables real-time Web publishing directly from QuarkXPress and an Expressroom Internet publication so professional Web and print publishers can reduce redundant processes, improve efficiency, streamline workflow and maintain greater control over their Internet content. The Expressroom 6.0 QuarkXtension is scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of 1999. Worldweb.net of Alexandria, Virginia also announced the appointment of Jay Greenwald as Chief Operations Officer, and the appointment of Heidi Heiden to the company's Board of Directors. www.worldweb.net

Scott Kadlec Joins MesaView, Inc. Board
8/30/1999

MesaView, Inc.announced the newest member of its Board of Directors, Scott Kadlec, former President of PC DOCS Inc. and Vice Chairman of PC DOCS Group International. Mr. Kadlec co-founded CMS Data Corporation a successful software developer of financial software for the legal market, in 1979. In 1990 he founded PC DOCS Inc., developer of the world's most widely used document management software. PC DOCS Inc. was part of PC DOCS Group International Inc., which was a publicly traded company that was recently sold for approximately $200 million. Mr. Kadlec recently retired from his position as the Vice-Chairman of PC DOCS Group International Inc. Mr. Kadlec holds a Ph.D. from Florida St. University. www.mesaview.com

SoftBook Press Introduces Enhanced SoftBook Reader & Word Import
8/30/1999

SoftBook Press, Inc. announced an enhanced version of its SoftBook Reader. Designed specifically to meet the demanding needs of business users, this enhanced and SoftBook Reader includes significant new functionality such as Ethernet connectivity, increased storage capacity for lengthy corporate documents, and compliance with the public draft of the Open eBook specification. Available in Q4 1999, the Enterprise SoftBook Reader with Ethernet is priced at $699.95 with up to 10,000 pages of storage capacity (16 MB). Higher storage capacities are also available. SoftBook also announced Personal Publisher, a software tool for both Windows and Macintosh platforms that enables users to take their existing Microsoft Word documents and save them as files for reading on a SoftBook Reader. These files, SoftBook Editions, are fully-compliant with the public draft of the Open eBook specification. www.softbook.com

Infodata Staffs Up
8/27/1999

Infodata Systems Inc. is expanding its business development staff to promote growth of its pharmaceutical, financial services and government client list. James P. McCaslin has joined Infodata in the newly created position of Director of Special Programs. Richard E.H. Julien III, is a newly named Senior Systems Consultant who will also concentrate on intelligence-related contracts. Brendan Babbington, is a newly named Account Manager, Philip J. Osip has joined as a Senior Systems Consultant, and William Lynch, is appointed to the new position of Account Manager. www.infodata.com

LivePage Launches Solution Provider Program
8/26/1999

LivePageCorporation announced the launch of the LivePage Solution Provider Program. The Program offers Value Added Resellers, System Integrators and Consultants a comprehensive suite of sales, marketing and technical resources to accelerate the development of corporate web sites and information portals. In conjunction with the program launch, LivePage announced the first ten members of the LivePage Solution Provider Channel. Leading organizations in the fields of interactive web services, XML, electronic documentation as well as vertical application providers have already joined the program. At the time of the announcement, LivePage Solution Providers included: Systems Documentation, Inc. (SDI), CALIAN Technology, Soza & Company, Ltd., OMICRON Consulting, Computing Art, Gralen Digitex Inc., ITASCA, Paradigm Interactive, WebFeats, and VBM. www.livepage.com

Object Publishing Software Announces Content & Catalog Management Systems
8/26/1999

Object Publishing Software announced two new products in its suite of ObjectPublisher solutions for distributors, manufacturers, and other supply-chain enterprises to market and sell large, diverse product lines. ObjectPublisher Content Management System is an Oracle/Java/XML-based system for managing complex product information over the Internet via dynamic forms. ObjectPublisher Catalog-on-Demand is a 100% automated production system that creates custom Web and print catalogs over the Internet. These new products complement ObjectPublisher Design Studio for automating the layout and formatting of catalogs, directories, and other complex and data-rich publications for Web, CD, and print. OP Design Studio publishes from any database via ODBC drivers. OP CMS is an object-oriented design for product information implemented in an Oracle database. Its benefits are its ability to maintain a unique set of rich attributes for any class of product, and to dynamically generate "smart" input forms thus setting the stage for community authoring on the Internet. OP Catalog-On-Demand consists of several components, including OP Java Browser, OP Render Server, and OP Render Queue Manager (RQM). OP Catalog-On-Demand allows end-users to select product information via the Internet into a "shopping cart" to create their own custom catalog. Once produced, the requestor receives this catalog either as a bookmarked PDF file or as a Java-based Web publication. www.objectpublish.com

Open Text Acquires PSSoftware
8/26/1999

Open Text Corporation announced it has acquired all of the shares in PSSoftware Solutions Ltd. (PSS). PSSoftware, located in Ottawa, is one of the original records management companies. As part of the merger, Open Text will create a records management division led by David Gibbard, CEO of PSSoftware. www.pssoft.com, www.opentext.com

Inso Announces Release of Outside In 2.0
8/25/1999

Inso Corporation's Information Exchange Division announced availability of Outside In Server 2.0, a significant enhancement of the industry's first Web server-based, real time HTML conversion software. Outside In Server supports on the fly conversion to HTML, GIF and JPEG of virtually any business document including files from the latest Microsoft, Lotus and Corel Office suites. Enhancements to Outside In version 2.0 include the ability to convert Microsoft Office 2000 file formats; integration with Apache NT Web Server (version 1.3.4); and, the ability to publish from remote virtual directories in Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0. Further, Outside In Server leverages Windows NT and IIS security to control Web access to your documents. www.inso.com

Tumbleweed Delivers IME Personalize
8/24/1999

Tumbleweed Communications announced IME Personalize, software specifically designed to help marketers retain and re-engage online customers. IME Personalize is an application built on top of Tumbleweed Integrated Messaging Exchange (IME), a set of products and services that leverage the Internet and existing e-mail to create a secure, trackable online communications channel. IME Personalize extends this rich communications channel by enabling a company committed to secure online customer communication to deliver targeted marketing messages to its customers via the same means. IME Personalize enables marketers to add marketing messages to the secure online communications that Tumbleweed IME delivers. With the straightforward, browser-based interface, non-technical users can leverage personal profile data and preferences to define and transmit a variety of targeted marketing messages to their customers automatically. www.tumbleweed.com

InSystems Announces Latest Version of Calligo Enterprise
8/24/1999

InSystems Technologies, Inc. announced its latest version of Calligo Enterprise is shipping. This Web-centric document automation solution allows organizations to create, manage and distribute error-free, customized documents enterprise-wide. Calligo Enterprise includes add-on options, Customizer and Dispatcher. Calligo Dispatcher is a high volume, batch processing component that allows users to generate and print large numbers of documents in an unattended, automated environment. Maximizing existing PCs and servers, clients can now fulfill printing requirements overnight or in background mode using one or many different printers. A second add-on option, Calligo Customizer, allows assembled documents to be amended and edited in an interactive, yet very controlled fashion. It is a unique option for creating and managing complex proposals, negotiable agreements, manuscript endorsements and custom correspondence. Pricing is dependent on seats, servers, and options purchased. www.insystems.com

Hummingbird & Metastorm Announce Collaborative Workflow Solution
8/19/1999

Hummingbird Communications Ltd. announced a strategic alliance with Metastorm Inc. Hummingbird will embed Metastorm’s e-work collaborative workflow software within its existing document management solutions and incorporate Metastorm technology in ongoing Enterprise Information Portal development. This alliance will give Hummingbird users a single consistent environment to automate business processes, enable workgroup collaboration, and improve the capture and reuse of corporate knowledge. www.metastorm.com, www.humminbird.com

ESPS CoreDossier 4.0 to Embrace Documentum
8/18/1999

ESPS, Inc. announced that its CoreDossier 4.0 software offers expanded functionality to users through compatibility with Documentum, Inc.'s new content management platform, Documentum 4i. Documentum, Inc., introduced its new platform in June 1999 to manage the content creation and delivery for both corporate and e-business portals. ESPS' e-Compliance software, which publishes to the Internet, corporate intranets, directly to paper or to industry-specified standards in formats like HTML, XML, PDF and TIFF, complements Documentum 4i by allowing users to create cohesive compliance publications with source content managed by Documentum. The ESPS CoreDossier product suite is designed to deliver e-Compliance management solutions so customers can efficiently plan, assemble, manage, publish and share regulatory submissions and other mission-critical business compliance information. CoreDossier publications may be published into Documentum maintaining cross-reference links between publication components. www.esps.com

Interwoven Releases OpenDeploy 3.0
8/16/1999

Interwoven, Inc. announced the general availability of OpenDeploy 3.0 software. The new release enables content replication and syndication capabilities across distributed networks of production servers.  With OpenDeploy 3.0, Web content can be distributed and synchronized in automated, scheduled and transactional deployments. This permits more timely content, lower operating costs and more reliable site administration so that businesses gain the security, scalability and flexibility they need. A new feature in OpenDeploy 3.0, known as event trigger support, allows organizations to execute external programs and scripts before, during and after a deployment. This allows select  employees, customers and business partners to be notified by e-mail when new content is added to certain pages. It also allows system administrators to be notified in the event of a failed transfer. www.interwoven.com

Alpnet & Sun to Develop Language Translation Infrastructure Solution
8/16/1999

ALPNET,Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced that the companies have agreed to cooperatively develop an innovative language Translation Management Computer Infrastructure (TMCI) solution for the Solaris Operating Environment. The new TMCI solution allows multi-national companies to quickly and easily manage language translation throughout their global operations from centralized servers. With the new TMCI solution, global companies can quickly deploy familiar, translated contents through the Internet to their employees, partners, and customers based upon ALPNET's EP technology, the new language translation solution is expected to be deployed first at Sun - and productized by ALPNET - in the fourth quarter of this year. The TMCI solution supports established and emerging Internet standards like TCP/IP HTTP, Java and XML technologies. Additionally, TMCI supports a range of languages (scripts that are included in the Unicode character set), major text formats and importation and exportation of legacy translation memory formats, including TMX and Trados. www.alpnet.com

Excalibur Announces Plug-In for Notes/Domino
8/9/1999

Excalibur Technologies announced the Excalibur RetrievalWare Power Search Plug-in' for Lotus Notes that will deliver advanced search and retrieval functionality to Lotus Notes Domino. The product was announced in conjunction with the release of Excalibur RetrievalWare 6.7, the latest version of the company's enterprise knowledge retrieval solution Lotus Notes/Domino customers may now elect to choose the new RetrievalWare Power Search Plug-in which enables faster indexing and better performance for simultaneous indexing and retrieval from distributed Lotus Notes servers. It provides plug-in access to Excalibur's knowledge retrieval system, enabling advanced concept-based, natural language searching on more than 200 standard and proprietary document formats including Microsoft Office and other groupware and document repositories that frequently co-exist in Lotus Notes environments, all from a single query. www.excalib.com

Webb Adds Corel Images to XML Publishing Service
8/5/1999

Webb Interactive Services, Inc.and GraphicCorp, a division of Corel Corporation announced a partnership wherein Webb will license images from GraphicCorp's extensive digital image library and co-market GraphicCorp's new ClipartCity.com web subscription services. The image library, providing a large store of digital clipart, animations and photos, will be integrated into Webb's template-driven platform for distribution partners to create a large variety of web page templates. This will be used by small businesses to easily choose unlimited styles and designs for their websites. In addition to a template-based approach to produce unique HTML-based websites and advertising content, CommunityWare/XML Publisher creates an XML repository of the content, thereby creating a foundation for enhanced merchant and consumer services. For instance, content can be aggregated to create comparison-shopping, publish dynamic specialty shopping guides, and create special offer and promotion announcements. www.graphiccorp.com, www.web.net

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