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NetRight Technologies also announced a partnership with LEXIS-NEXIS, the world’s leading provider of enhanced information services for online, Internet, CD-ROM and hardcopy formats, to integrate document management and online research tools for legal professionals. Users of NetRight’s iManage document management system will now have a “button” from which they can launch the LEXIS-NEXIS on-line research tool directly from iManage. Once information is located in LEXIS-NEXIS it can then be downloaded into iManage. After the document is imported into iManage it can be stored, retrieved and edited. www.netright.com, www.lexis-nexis.com

NetRight Technologies has introduced a Microsoft Outlook integration client for iManage. This new interface enables integration between the iManage document management system (DMS) and Outlook, Microsoft’s messaging and workgroup interface. Using the Outlook client, users can perform many of the familiar Microsoft Outlook tasks on documents stored in the DMS. For example, users can now sort documents based upon their status (checked-in or checked-out), who checked them out, and apply Outlook rules. The expanded search capabilities of DMS are made available through the usual search dialogs. Users can also move mail messages and attachments straight into the DMS without the need for a separate interface or application. The new Outlook client also enables users to e-mail iManage documents as links or attachments. Features of Outlook such as “drag and drop” functionality including importing and exporting are also included in the new client. www.netright.com

Workgroup Technology Corporation, (the PDM system provider) announced its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 1999 ended December 31, 1998. For the third quarter of fiscal 1999, WTC reported revenue of $2,183,000 compared with $1,897,000 in the third quarter of fiscal 1998. The net loss for the third quarter of fiscal 1999 was $2,120,000, or $0.25 per share, compared with a net loss of $1,727,000, or $0.21 per share, for the third quarter of fiscal 1998. Revenue for the first nine months of fiscal 1999 was $6,093,000, compared with $5,611,000 for the comparable period one year ago. The net loss for the first nine months of fiscal 1999 was $6,841,000, or $0.81 per share, versus a net loss of $5,437,000, or $0.66 per share, for the first nine months of fiscal 1998. www.workgroup.com

World Wide Web Consortium has released the WebCGM Profile as a W3C Recommendation. Developed in close collaboration between W3C and the CGM Open Consortium, the profile reflects cross-industry agreement on an interoperable way to exchange dynamic, hyperlinked Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) files over the Web. CGM is an ISO standard graphics format widely used in the aerospace, defence, automotive and medical industries, for example in interactive online technical manuals. Members of CGM Open, W3C, or both who contributed include: ArborText, Auto-trol Technologies, Aerospatiale, Bentley Systems, The Boeing Company, CCLRC, Inso Corporation, Intercap Graphics Systems, ITEDO/IsoDraw, Jeppesen Inc, Larson Software Technology, NIST, System Development Inc, Xerox Corporation and Zeh Graphic Systems. The work was also supported by the European Commission’s Esprit Project and undertaken in liaison with ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC24, the ISO working group which developed the CGM specification. www.w3.org, www.cgmopen.org

Documentum announced their revenues and net income for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 1998. Revenues for the fourth quarter of 1998 were $36.4 million, a 54 percent increase over revenues of $23.6 million for the same period of 1997. Net income for the fourth quarter increased to $4.2 million compared with net income of $2.8 million reported for the same period of 1997. Earnings per diluted share grew 33 percent to $.24 in the fourth quarter, up from $.18 for the fourth quarter of 1997. For comparative purposes, except where noted, the annual results exclude the effects of a one time charge in the first quarter of 1998 of $2.2 million primarily related to the previously announced acquisition of Workgroup Management, Inc., which closed on January 5, 1998, and a one time charge in the third quarter of 1998 of $34.6 million related to the previously announced acquisition of Relevance Technologies, Inc., which closed on July 16, 1998. For the year ended December 31, 1998, revenues were $123.8 million, a 64 percent increase over revenues of $75.6 million for the same period of 1997. Net income for the year ended December 31, 1998 was $12.9 million, or $.75 per diluted share, up from $7.4 million, or $.49 per diluted share for the same period of 1997. www.documentum.com

The Open Applications Group, Inc. (OAGI), a non-profit industry consortium comprised of many of the stakeholders in the business software component interoperability arena, announced publication of a full set of XML Document Type Definition (DTD) files that define interoperability APIs. The group has built a common model for software application component interoperability over the last three years. The model is described in their Open Applications Group Integration Specification. OAGIS describes the major components, their integration dialogs, and the content of those dialogs for many key enterprise business applications, including financials, manufacturing, human resources, supply chain, and logistics. The DTDs necessary to define this integration content in XML have been published on the OAGI web site and are available for public access at: www.openapplications.org . The DTDs will be free of charge to download and use, but a license agreement will be enacted to maintain ownership of intellectual property.