Convera and Nexidia announced a new partnership that will add phonetic audio search as an optional component to Convera’s RetrievalWare search and categorization platform. Nexidia’s technology embedded within Convera’s search platform will ensure RetrievalWare can search audio and video the equivalent of 30 hours of audio information in less than one second. Nexidia’s phonetic searching pinpoints spoken words in word or phrase formats by analyzing the phonetic content of indexed audio or video files based on the similarity of sound. RetrievalWare’s new audio search feature will enable customers to search for spoken words without converting the audio to text through speech-to-text software or human transcription. Nexidia’s technology adds high precision to RetrievalWare’s phonetic search capability, identifying not just dictionary words, but also slang terms and code words. In addition to retrospective search, Convera will offer Nexidia technology for real-time monitoring of audio, matching capabilities already offered by Convera’s Profiling feature for processing textual content. www.nexidia.com, www.convera.com
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IBM announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the software assets of CrossAccess Corporation. The acquisition is expected to close later this month. Financial details were not disclosed. CrossAccess is a provider of infrastructure software that enables corporations to access information stored in mainframe databases and make it available for use with new business applications. The acquisition is meant to strengthen IBM’s enterprise information integration capabilities, a key strategic priority for its Data Management efforts and the company’s on demand computing initiatives. With CrossAccess technology integrated into DB2 Information Integrator software, IBM will be able to deliver a comprehensive enterprise information integration infrastructure. Once the acquisition is completed, IBM plans to integrate CrossAccess’ software assets and personnel into the Data Management Software group, narket and sell CrossAccess technology through the IBM sales force, and integrate CrossAccess technology into IBM’s DB2 Information Integrator software. http://www.software.ibm.com/data
EMC Corporation and Documentum, Inc. announced a definitive agreement for EMC to acquire Documentum in a stock transaction valued at approximately $1.7 billion. Documentum stockholders will receive 2.175 shares of EMC common stock for each share of Documentum common stock. Based upon the EMC closing stock price of $14.45 on October 13, 2003, the transaction is valued at approximately $1.7 billion. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to be completed in the first quarter of calendar year 2004. When completed, EMC expects to take a charge in the quarter the transaction is closed for the value of Documentums in-process research and development costs and other integration expenses. Upon completion of the acquisition, EMC intends to operate Documentum as a software division of EMC headquartered in Pleasanton, California, led by Dave DeWalt, Documentum’s current CEO. Documentum’s sales, marketing and services will remain focused on selling and servicing Documentums products and solutions. www.EMC.com, www.documentum.com
Plumtree Software unveiled plans to offer a J2EE version of its portal software by the middle of 2004, designed to run with Java application servers hosted on UNIX, and later, Linux. Plumtree plans to continue developing the .NET version of its portal alongside this new J2EE version. The 5.0J version of the portal software is expected to have the same features, functionality and server architecture as the 5.0 Windows product but will have a re-designed Java kernel, and will use many J2EE components and specifications including JDBC for access to multiple databases, JMX for management and monitoring of the portal server, JNDI for naming and directory services, and JNI for JVM communication. In addition, both J2EE and .NET versions of the portal are designed to support the new Java portlet standard JSR 168. The 5.0J portal design draws on the J2EE application server, but uses the same HTTP-based Web Services Architecture as the Windows portal for communicating with other systems and the same parallel processing technology for communicating with a large number of Web services simultaneously. Plumtree plans to test application and Web servers including Apache Tomcat, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere and Sun Java System Application Server, running on Sun Solaris and IBM AIX operating systems. Plumtree currently plans to offer Linux support later in 2004. www.plumtree.com
Topologi announces the 1.1.6 release of its Collaborative Markup Editor. Along with several interface improvements for both Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, Topologi announced new support for very large file handling. From original conception, Topologi has committed the Collaborative Markup Editor to addressing the needs of SGML and XML publishing production environments. However, feedback to date has been that working with 8-10 megabyte files is still not enough for many users. The editor’s core has been extensively reworked in version 1.1.6. Using memory profiling techniques, users can make final edits to million-line (50 megabyte) files without performance problems. Other improvements in this release include improved interactive diagnostics of markup syntax errors, support for Java 1.4.2 features such as mouse wheels and improved file chooser, Schematron 1.1.6 compliance, allowing better datatyping, improved support for RTF import of foreign languages including Chinese, built-in hex and image previewer, and faster load times. The Topologi Collaborative Markup Editor is available as a 30 day evaluation download or as a licensed purchase for US$60 at www.topologi.com
Equilibrium announced the availability of Equilibrium MediaRich Server for Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 as a digital asset management (DAM) solution for mid-sized to enterprise corporations using Microsoft Office 2003. The new version extends Microsoft Office 2003’s collaborative experience with brand management and image automation. The resulting DAM solution allows corporations to maintain revision control for a single high-quality asset, create derivatives on demand, and deliver consistent brand assets for the Web, print, wireless and Microsoft Office 2003 applications. Equilibrium MediaRich Server for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 provides previews of CMYK images, vector images, and layered Photoshop files along with related metadata, and reads and writes BMP, WBMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, PCT, TIFF, PDF, TGA, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop PSD or EPS files with accurate ICC color profiles. Equilibrium MediaRich Server for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (beta) is now available. Companies may download a 15-day evaluation of Equilibrium MediaRich for SharePoint Products and Technologies at www.equilibrium.com.
Microsoft Corp. announced plans to offer new versions of Content Management Server (CMS) 2002, including a Standard Edition (SE) for medium-sized businesses and an enhanced CMS 2002 Enterprise Edition (EE) that provides compatibility with Windows Server 2003 and is localized into three new languages. In addition, Microsoft will be updating the content integration pack for enterprises looking to integrate CMS 2002 with the newly released Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. The new features in the Content Management Server 2002 Connector for SharePoint Technologies include the abilities to publish CMS content directly from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and to integrate document libraries. A beta version of the Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 Connector for SharePoint Technologies is available today at ; the final version will be released by the end of 2003. Pricing for CMS SE will start at $6,999 ERP per CPU. It will be limited to 15 content contributors and also will offer a Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 Connector for SharePoint Technologies. Future versions of Content Management Server 2002 Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition will support French, Japanese and German. www.microsoft.com
Antenna House, Inc announced their XSL-FO processor [XSL Formatter V3.0] is now available. XSL Formatter is a software to format XML documents for production-quality printing and output to PDF. Some of the key features of V3.0 as compared to V2.X are: V3.0 is significantly faster then XSL Formatter V2.X, V3.0 has newly developed SVG support to retain the vector information for the output module thus meeting the increasing demands for SVG delivery and viewing, and the V3.0 formatting engine has been developed from scratch to be able to
format “any” size of document. This overcomes the V2.X limitation of
approximately 4,000 pages in a single document. V3.0 is able to format about 10
times as much as V2.X. System Requirements: Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/Server2003, or Sun Solaris 8, 9 (Sparc version), or RedHat Linux 8.0 or later, SuSE Linux 8.1 (libstdc++.so.5 required). www.antennahouse.com
