webMethods Inc., provider of XML-based business-to-business e-commerce and integration solutions, announced that it will support Commerce XML (cXML), an open XML-based standard created to facilitate e-commerce within trading communities.webMethods is among 40 companies that have joined Ariba Technologies in the development of cXML, a suite of lightweight XML DTDs and their associated processes that define the exchange of catalog content and transaction information between buyers and suppliers. www.webmethods.com
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UWI.Com, the provider of XML-based Internet forms for business-to-business e-commerce, announced that the company is actively seeking a strategic partnership that will take advantage of the market for the company’s solutions. The company has retained the services of PricewaterhouseCoopers Securities LLC to facilitate this strategic move. Qualified parties are invited to access the corporate profile website at or contact Mark Fahlberg at: 703/610-7550. www.uwi.com
Micro Modeling Associates (MMA), a technology consulting firm, announced a strategic partnership with Object Design. MMA will leverage Object Design’s object-oriented database management systems and tools, including eXcelon, their XML data server, to develop customized business solutions and Web applications for large corporations. As a premier member of ODI’s eXtreme Advantage Partner Program, MMA will integrate eXcelon into its enterprise knowledge management service offering for Fortune 500 businesses. MMA participated on Object Design’s eXcelon steering committee alongside companies such as KPMG and Knight-Ridder, and is now incorporating eXcelon into its own technology framework. www.micromodeling.com
Interleaf, Inc. announced the availability of BusinessWeb 2.0 and BusinessWeb Plus 2.0, Web-enabled e-content solutions. BusinessWeb and BusinessWeb Plus combine Web technology with Interleaf’s document management, distribution, workflow and Web viewing software to provide secure, Web-enabled access to Interleaf WorldView Press document collections and Interleaf RDM document repositories. BusinessWeb and BusinessWeb Plus enable browser search, retrieval and viewing of intranet-based corporate document repositories and electronic collections from a Java-enabled browser. The BusinessWeb viewing solution resides on the client, while BusinessWeb Plus uses a thin-client Java applet solution. Interleaf has integrated advances in its Xtravert Java viewing technology. The Xtravert technology allows users to more easily search through text in Web documents, and for users of BusinessWeb Plus, replaces the WorldView Java Viewer with Java viewing technology, expanded user interface and better text and graphic rendering techniques. Both solutions now offer document printing support for Postscript or PCL printers. www.interleaf.com
Oracle Corp., said 8i, its latest database program, designed to work seamlessly with the Internet, was now available from dealers. In January, they postponed shipment of 8i to allow more time for integrating other software and development tools with the product. It was originally slated to ship by the end of 1998. 8i has tools such as a built-in Java Virtual Machine, an “Internet file system,” which will store and manage Web pages, multimedia data, word processing files and spreadsheets, and XML support. The database runs on Windows NT, Solaris and Hewlett-Packard’s Unix, among others. www.oracle.com
Adobe Systems officially unveiled their new page layout software, Adobe InDesign, at the Seybold conference. It is based on a new, open, object-oriented architecture that is extensible. InDesign had been known as “K2” while under development, and is the first real threat to Quark in the graphic design market since Quark became almost a de facto standard there years ago. Adobe also demonstrated some tight integration between the recently acquired GoLive web publishing tool and PhotoShop, Illustrator, Acrobat 4.0 and other Adobe products. www.adobe.com
Mortice Kern Systems Inc. (MKS) announced a new release of Web Integrity, the company’s cross-platform Web object management solution. Web Integrity allows individual content authors to own, manage and change their own content while automating processes for approving, publishing and tracking change to Web pages. Web Integrity 2.4 is now available direct from MKS. Pricing starts at $25,000US for a single server license of Web Integrity (NT or UNIX) and 25 client licenses. Web Integrity supports Web browsers and Web servers on a variety of platforms. www.mks.com
IntraNet Solutions, Inc.,announced that its Intra.doc! Web-based document and content management system now supports the MrSID (Multiresolution Seamless Image Database) Portable Image Format developed by LizardTech, Inc. LizardTech provides imaging technology and solutions to allow instant access to massive high-resolution digital images and multimedia content. This partnership enhances Intra.doc!’s ability to easily, publish, access and manage all of an organization’s corporate information, including complex images from sophisticated engineering drawings to four-color photos on intranets/extranets and the Internet.The MrSID Portable Image Format enables Intra.doc! users to reduce massive high-resolution images down to at least 3 percent of the original image size without any visual image degradation. This capability lets Intra.doc! customers import, export, manipulate, transmit and store reproduction quality images — even within Adobe PDF-based documents — while preserving the entire image’s integrity.Since the MrSID files are a mere fraction of the original size, transmission times and storage requirements are decreased dramatically. www.intranetsol.com, www.lizardtech.com
