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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
