Infoteria Inc. announced that the English version of their XML products iConnector and iMessenger will start shipping in the first quarter of 2000 and be available worldwide. iConnector and iMessenger are member of Infoteria’s XML Solution Components which offers comprehensive B2B database and application integration. iConnector and iMessenger are exhibited at the exposition of XML ’99 as the first public demonstration in the United States. The iConnector series, the leading XML software packages in Japan, is a gateway product between traditional databases and XML data. iRuleGenerator, included in the iConnector series, allows users to map XML data structure to the database schema, and visa versa. iConnector supports previous versions of databases, such as Oracle 7.x and Lotus Domino 4.5/4.6, as well as the latest versions. iConnector also offers cross database relational joins where incoming XML data can be stored using another database as reference. The iConnector series consists of 3 packages, iConnector for Oracle, iConnector for Lotus Domino and iConnector for Access. Additional database support is planned in the second quarter, 2000. iMessenger enables the sending and receiving of XML data via SMTP. It has GUI setting screen and can run as a server to pool the incoming XML messages using IMAP4 or POP3 protocol. Both iConnector and iMessenger are easily used in CGI and Active Server Pages to build XML based web services, in addition to integrating inter-enterprise information systems. iConnector and iMesenger are available for Microsoft Windows NT4.0 and 2000 in the first quarter of 2000. Sun Solaris and Linux versions will follow soon thereafter. iConnector for Oracle and iConnector for Lotus Domino are priced at $8,000 each, iConnector for Access and iMessenger 1.0 are priced at $4,000 each. In addition to standard package, C++ library versions will be available for OEMs. www.infoteria.com/