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.

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