Daniel Green Company initiated a collaborative effort to develop new, open standards for data exchange among footwear suppliers, retailers, web sites, sourcing and distribution. These new standards are intended for use with XML. The working group will include representatives from a broad cross-section of the footwear industry, such as athletic, shoes, boots, women’s fashion, retail and Internet outlets. Initial plans call for the working group to define standard terms and design basic document object models that are expected to have a far-reaching impact on transaction productivity within the footwear industry. Ultimate goals include reduced inventories and waste as well as lower costs and greater variety for consumers. www.danielgreenco.com
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Open Text Corporation announced record revenues and operating profits for its second quarter ended December 31, 1998. Net income, excluding a one-time charge, for the second quarter was US$3.3 million, which is $0.15 per share (diluted) compared to net income of $153,000 or $0.01 per share, excluding a one-time charge, for the year-earlier quarter. The one-time charge of $3.4 million in the second quarter of fiscal 1999 relates to the company’s purchase of certain assets of LAVA Systems. For the twelfth consecutive quarter, Open Text reported the highest quarterly total revenues in the company’s history. Total revenues for the quarter were US$20.8 million up 113 percent from $9.8 million for the year-earlier period. License revenues for the quarter ended December 31, 1998 were $12.9 million, up 90 percent compared to $6.8 million for the second quarter of fiscal 1998. www.opentext.com
Inxight Software announced a program for non-profit organizations and educational institutions that offers Inxight’s Hyperbolic Tree technology for creating interactive website maps. The free program gives webmasters and/or web designers the tools to create an intuitive and interactive single-screen site map that enables their website visitors to find information quickly and easily. The Program includes proprietary prototype software that automatically “crawls” the contents of their website and creates a “tree file.” It also includes a simple-to-use “editor” that allows the webmaster to make modifications resulting in a Hyperbolic Tree site map that can be color coded to show related topics with live links that enable a user to easily find the information desired and click directly to the page of interest. Qualifying organizations, whose websites typically have URLs in the .edu and .org domains, can join the program by registering online at Inxight’s website.
Norwest Venture Partners, a venture capital business partner for emerging growth IT companies, today announced a $3.25 million follow-on investment in Arbortext, the provider of standards-based enterprise software for information creation, editing and publishing. Norwest has invested a total of more than $9 million in Arbortext, and Promod Haque, managing partner with the firm, is a member of Arbortext’s board of directors. This second round of funding, totaling $10.25 million, was led by Invesco and also included an investment by Access Capital. Arbortext plans to use the funding to expand sales and marketing activities. www.arbortext.com, www.norwestvc.com
The W3C has released a test suite for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS is a widely supported style sheet language that describes how Web documents (e.g., written in HTML or XML) are presented on screen, paper, in speech, etc. The CSS1 Test Suite will help implementors improve CSS1 support in their products and will enable Web page designers to verify the quality of CSS1 support in their browsers. Solid CSS support across a variety of browsers will encourage authors to use style sheets. The test suite consists of nearly 100 pages, each of which documents a section from the CSS specification. Using words and images, the pages describe how the various CSS features should be rendered. www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/
Verity, Inc. and Corel Corp. announced an OEM agreement involving Verity’s HTML Export technology. Corel is embedding Verity HTML Export in its new, knowledge publishing application, code-named NetDocs, which will be included in part of Corel’s upcoming version of WordPerfect Office 2000 Professional. HTML Export is designed to provide conversion of business documents into HTML for Web publishing. Verity HTML Export allows an organization to publish and view documents from a standard Web browser by regenerating files into HTML from their native formats, without requiring an HTML editor or the original application that created them. It is designed to enable Corel users to conveniently convert documents to HTML from within the application’s “save as” feature. www.verity.com, www.corel.com
PC DOCS/Fulcrum also announced the release of KNOWLEDGE Base32, its new “precedent management” business application. An extension to DOCS Open, KNOWLEDGE Base32 (KB32) goes beyond document management technology to give attorneys the ability to create and manage a library of their intellectual assets – documents that hold historical knowledge, legal know-how, or judgements which have set precedents. In the precedent library, these documents are continually stored, reviewed, and approved by people selected from within the firm. www.pcdocs.com
PC DOCS/Fulcrum, announced the Enterprise Table of Contents (ETOC), a new component to be featured in upcoming versions of the DOCSFulcrum enterprise knowledge management system. ETOC technology allows users to browse a hierarchy of all information available in an enterprise — similar to the table of contents in a book – by employing a neural network-based content analysis technology to automatically classify information from a variety of different sources and repositories. This eliminates the primary difficulty of not knowing precisely what to look for or where in the network to start looking for knowledge that matters to the user. Information is pulled from file systems, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, databases, document indexes, and other information systems available to DOCSFulcrum. www.pcdocs.com
