Lotus Development Corp. and Microsoft Corp. tody announced their intent to integrate Microsoft Windows Media Technologies into Lotus’ Notes and Domino Release 5 collaboration software products via IBM’s HotMedia Connect technology. This strategic distribution, development and licensing agreement will deliver the benefits of Microsoft streaming multimedia technology to Notes and Domino R5 users worldwide as well as tighten the integration between Lotus and Microsoft technologies. Initially Lotus plans to ship a partially integrated version of Microsoft Windows Media Player with an upcoming version of Lotus Notes and Domino Release 5. Lotus and Microsoft intend to integrate upcoming versions of Windows Media Technologies with a future update version of Notes and Domino R5 via HotMedia Connect for Domino technology. Additional availability and pricing details will be announced next year. www.lotus.com, www.microsoft.com
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iXOS Software AG, announced that its new web-enabled iXOS-ARCHIVE version 3.5 is now available. iXOS-ARCHIVE 3.5 has an integrated HTTP interface (already certified by SAP for interfacing with SAP ArchiveLink Release 4.5), that extends access to information via the web in addition to allowing business document management using a standard web browser. www.ixos.com
Bluestone Software Inc. announced complementary product agreements with Cloudscape Inc., Extensibility Inc., Fiorano Software Inc., PointBase Inc., and Vervet Logic to bundle and integrate their XML technologies with Bluestone Visual-XML, the company’s toolkit for building XML applications. Fiorano/EMS brings its Java message-queuing and publish-subscribe communications listener and dispatcher, while Cloudscape adds its 100% Pure Java SQL database management system and its Cloudsync application synchronization facility. PointBase extends Bluestone’s XML functionality with its own 100% Pure Java SQL DBMS. In addition, Bluestone Visual-XML users now have access to a pair of advanced XML authoring tools — Extensibility’s XML Authority v1.0 XML schema design and conversion tool and Vervet Logic’s XML Pro v2.0 XML editor. Bluestone will bundle all five companion products with Bluestone Visual-XML, which will support plug-and-play integration of the products. www.bluestone.com.
Commerce One, Inc. announced the Commerce One Common Business Library (CBL) 2.0, an XML specification for the cross-industry exchange of business documents such as purchase orders, invoices, product descriptions, and shipping schedules. Commerce One CBL 2.0 is a set of XML building blocks and a document framework that allows the creation of reusable XML documents for electronic commerce. Using the CBL 2.0 document framework, businesses can conduct electronic commerce by exchanging business documents of different types. To enable companies to preserve their investment in existing standards such as traditional EDI, CBL 2.0 provides a transition path to XML-based commerce capability. Based on a broad range of Internet and commerce-related industry standards and specifications, CBL 2.0 is endorsed by the Microsoft BizTalk initiative, OASIS, the UN/CEFACT Techniques and Methodologies Working Group, and CommerceNet and its eCo Framework Project and Working Group. To encourage its industry-wide adoption and development, CBL 2.0 is free of charge and available immediately from e-commerce document repositories including XML.org, BizTalk.org, CommerceNet and Commerce One MarketSite.net. www.commerceone.com
Interwoven, Inc.has opened a UK office. Interwoven Ltd’s team, led by David Ogidi, managing director northern Europe, will direct the company’s business in the UK and Europe. Ogidi has held senior positions at companies including Sqribe Technologies, MapInfo and Hewlett-Packard. www.interwoven.com
The Bulldog Group Inc., Oracle Corporation, and Sun Microsystems Inc. announced Content BOSS, an integrated enterprise content management solution that enables media-rich organizations to reduce marketing and production costs. Content BOSS combines Bulldog’s enterprise content management software and services, Oracle8i with Oracle interMedia, and Sun’s servers and network storage. The Content BOSS agreement aligns marketing and sales efforts of the three companies, including joint sales training programs, events and marketing initiatives. Future Content BOSS plans include technical integration development and support for future releases of Bulldog and Oracle on Sun platforms. In addition, a Sun Microsystems Finance program will enable content companies and other media-rich organizations to implement a digital asset management strategy. Customers will be able to finance any combination of Content BOSS software, hardware and services from Sun and Bulldog through a single source. www.bulldog.com, www.oracle.com, www.sun.com.
OASIS announced major enhancements to XML.org, the open, vendor-neutral industry portal for XML. New XML schemas from DataChannel and the HR-XML Consortium have been submitted to XML.org. Other content upgrades include the addition of the XML.org Specifications Catalog (xml.org/xmlorg_catalog.htm), a comprehensive list of XML specifications currently under development including links for more information. The site also incorporates the XML.org Specification Submission Form to encourage and enable organizations to share their XML specifications with the community at large. DataChannel’s submission to XML.org is the Portal Markup Language (PML), which is designed to support inter-portal communication by providing an XML-based description of portal-related data and metadata. PML incorporates the basics of vocabularies such as Dublin Core, Directory Services Markup and WebDAV and will continue to closely track applicable standards of relevance to this arena. The HR-XML Consortium submitted three XML schemas to XML.org, all designed to enable a new generation of web-based workforce management and recruiting services. www.oasis-open.org
Keyfile Corporation announced it will support the Microsoft BizTalk Framework with an XML workflow schema that can be embedded with online forms, transactions and other XML documents. The schema defines the business logic for receiving, handling and processing the XML document as part of an e-commerce transaction. It is available in the library section of biztalk.org. www.keyfile.com
