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
Day: February 17, 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