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.
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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
Ektron announced version 4.0 of Ektron eWebEditPro+XML and eWebEditPro. Version 4.0 includes a new Design Mode feature which automates the manual step of creating XML structure and supporting documents, including XSLTs and schemas. eWebEditPro+XML’s new Design Mode builds an abstraction layer that hides the complexities of XSLTs and schemas. Developers can give non-technical users this tool to create environments for data input and validation. Using a new Drag and Drop toolbar, the user creates a Web page that resembles a form. With the tool, the user can position elements to define and design the layout of XML data, and use simple dialogs to define criteria for data validity. Additional new features in both Ektron eWebEditPro+XML and eWebEditPro Version 4.0 include enhanced form field editing (for standard HTML page editing) and support for Ektron WebImageFX, a browser-based image editors. Pricing starts at $299 for 10 users, with enterprise pricing available. www.ektron.com
KineMatik, a provider of enterprise Collaborative eR&D (CeR&D) solutions, and Open Text Corporation said they would provide their integrated software solutions to Irish biotechnology research institutions to help scientists manage information and collaborate on research projects. KineMatik and Open Text will donate licenses of their software to two Centers for Science, Engineering & Technology (CSETs) in Ireland. The centers include the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre at University College Cork, in Cork, Ireland, where scientists will be conducting research into drug treatment and pharmaceutical products whose applications can include treatments for Crohn’s disease, and the Royal College of Surgeons’ National Center for Human Proteomics in Dublin, where researchers will study technologies and proteins that can successfully treat diseases of the heart. KineMatik’s eNovator is integrated with Open Text’s Livelink product. www.kinematik.com, www.opentext.com
Documentum announced that it plans to offer support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Documentum 5, the latest version of the company’s ECM platform. Documentum has joined the Red Hat Advanced Software Partner program to support its Linux development and support efforts. Documentum’s support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux will be made in a phased-approach, with Web application support available later this year. www.redhat.com, www.documentum.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced the general availability of its TeamSite 6.0 Content Server software. This announcement follows the official launch of the product in July of this year. The new release of Interwoven’s core content management offering extends content management access to all business users and enables them to maintain control and distributed ownership of content across the enterprise. Also launched in July and shipping today is Interwoven ContentServices SDK 2.0, a Web Services-based toolkit that provides access to 160 content management services such as task management, workflow, user access, project configuration, and versioning from J2EE and .NET applications. www.interwoven.com
Arbortext announced it has entered into a Reseller Agreement with EMC International Group (EMC) to provide sales and support for customers in Latin America. EMC is Arbortext’s first reseller for this region and has offices in Chile, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. www.emcintl.com, www.arbortext.com
