Lightspeed Interactive, Inc. and Altova, Inc. announced the formal establishment of a strategic partnership. The two companies will collaborate to integrate their technologies to provide the an advanced XML environment for creating, managing and delivering advanced XML-based applications. Altova’s XML Spy Suite 4.3 offers a solution for XML schema driven document and content editing for both developers and end-users. Lightspeed’s Astoria solution provides single-source content management and delivery functionality, including versioning, history, check-in and check-out and flexible content reuse. Combined, the technologies provide a complete XML authoring solution to facilitate XML application development as well as XML content development. Lightspeed and its partners and resellers will market the integrated suite of products. www.lspeed.com, www.altova.com