Soholaunch, Inc. announced the release of the Soholaunch Site Management Tool (SMT) version 4.5. SMT 4.5 now runs on Microsoft NT as well as Linux. Additional features include Multi-User Access, a Web Form Builder and a Photo Album. SMT 4.5 is a stand-alone, thin-client website development application that creates and manages database-driven websites through a “drag and drop” browser interface. The program, written in PHP and supporting name-based or IP environments, requires a mySQL database and installs on servers running Linux or Microsoft NT. The product has eight integrated business modules: Page Editor, Shopping Cart, Secure Login System, Custom Forms Management, MySQL Database Table Manager, eNewsletter System, Event Calendar and Site Statistics. The Soholaunch Site Management Tool is available immediately. The MSRP of the SMT Pro is $799 and the SMT Lite is $199. www.soholaunch.com
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SAQQARA Systems, Inc. announced the release of SAQQARA CommerceSuite 4.5 with support for Quark and XML. CommerceSuite 4.5 provides a collaborative content authoring and publishing platform that supports multiple publishing vehicles to allow suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and industry exchanges to leverage product content across multiple mediums. CommerceSuite 4.5 includes Web Services to facilitate integration with enterprise applications. CommerceSuite 4.5 integration to Quark Express via XML export enables the publishing from one database repository to all media. A custom XSLT simplifies mapping the XSD’s to destination structures — tagging the catalog data with names that are familiar to a customers’ QuarkXPress team. CommerceSuite 4.5 uses XML to distribute and re-use content from the enterprise repository, and has expanded the ability to get data into and out of the master catalog by providing XML export of the entire product contents of the web catalog. SAQQARA CommerceSuite 4.5 is available immediately. Special upgrade pricing and maintenance agreements are available. www.saqqara.com
Open Text Corporation and Corechange, Inc. announced the closing of the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Corechange by a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Text. Corechange’s portal software provides a window into a company’s enterprise content, applications, services, and productivity tools. Coreport, the main product from Corechange, provides an enterprise access framework, deploying secure, scalable intranet and extranet portals. Benefits of integration with Open Text’s collaboration and knowledge management system, Livelink, include enhancement of Livelink connectors UNITE and Doorways; application integration at the point of access – with Corechange’s portal framework, Livelink will offer a horizontal solution unifying existing applications in CRM, ERP and SCM, and direct interaction with any kind of application running on any platform both web and legacy – with no change to the native application and no loss of functionality. This $4.2 million cash transaction will not result in an immediate or material financial change in guidance for Open Text’s fiscal 2003 year. www.opentext.com/livelink, www.corechange.com
anacubis, a division of the i2 Group (Washington DC) announced immediate availability of its web-enabled visualisation technology for online information portals. anacubis now extends the same visualisation and analysis technology used by intelligence and law enforcement agencies worldwide to online business information databases. The anacubis Viewer solution incorporates Java and XML-based technology to enable commercial information professionals to rapidly extract intelligence from complex data. anacubis Viewer automatically creates a visual representation of complex data in real-time, which can be manipulated and acted upon. It does this by automatically representing entities, such as people and organisations, pictorially as icons and shows the relationships between such entities as link types. As the user explores the online source, data is continually added to the visualisation, providing a big picture overview of a particular organisation, market or area of interest. anacubis will also launch the anacubis View Manager in March of 2003. The View Manager is a desktop application that enables users to store, manage and distribute the anacubis Views they have created within supported online information services. The anacubis View Manager will be available for download, free of charge in mid-March. www.anacubis.com
divine, inc. announced that its board of directors has authorized divine and several of its subsidiaries to file a voluntary petition to reorganize under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Today’s action will be taken to protect the value and viability of divine’s operations while it works to restructure its liabilities and achieve a resolution to the remaining economic issues facing the RoweCom, inc. subsidiary. divine’s subsidiary divine/Whitman-Hart, is not included in this filing. Casas, Benjamin & White LLC (CBW) will assist divine’s current management team in handling day-to-day operations. divine and CBW intend to continue to explore strategic options with Broadview International LLC including the possible sale of its assets to a well-capitalized buyer or buyers. divine is reporting approximately $25 million in unrestricted cash on hand to operate the business as various options are considered. divine has received a letter of intent from financial investment firm GTCR Golder Rauner LLC to acquire divine’s business in its entirety. Any sale of divine’s assets would be accomplished pursuant to section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code and would be subject to final approval of the Bankruptcy Court. One of divine’s top priorities is ensuring that customers are protected and that they continue to receive products, services and support. divine has retained the critical staff to ensure that its operations will continue without interruption during the Chapter 11 reorganization and sale process. www.divine.com
PricewaterhouseCoopers announced the immediate availability of its Enterprise Security Architecture System (ESAS) 5.0, a web-based security knowledge management tool to help companies proactively create and promote security policies that support their organization’s business objectives. The latest version combines enhancements in functionality and design with new features, including an access control model and authentication and user management function. ESAS 5.0 allows organizations flexibility on content management across the enterprise by providing targeted access to content and support distributed content management. Groups can be created for content review, maintenance and distribution. Additionally, ESAS 5.0 has a new authentication and user management function, including integrated LDAP authentication and support for third party authentication software. ESAS can be configured to authenticate users against your corporate directory using LDAP 3.0 compliant functions. www.pwcglobal.com
Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) and Overture Services, Inc. have entered into an agreement under which Overture will acquire FAST’s Internet business unit for $70 million in cash, as well as performance-based cash incentive payments for up to $30 million over three years. Under the terms of the agreement, Overture will acquire FAST’s Internet business unit assets including FAST Web Search, AlltheWeb.com, and FAST PartnerSite products, related intellectual property rights, as well as data centers and equipment in Sacramento (USA) and London (UK). In addition, the FAST Internet business unit personnel will transfer to Overture. Overture has also licensed FAST Data Search. The agreement is subject to standard review and regulatory processes, which the two companies anticipate will be completed by April 2003. FAST will now focus on their enterprise search solutions, which is where most of their revenue has come from. www.fastsearch.com
Canto announced the availability of Cumulus 5.5.2, a free upgrade to its cross
platform line of Digital Asset Management solutions for enterprises, workgroups and single users. In addition to bug fixes and improved user handling it includes enhancements in compatibility with Mac OS X Classic Mode and enhanced OPI. Cumulus 5.5.2 will be offered with an Update Installer so that the update process from earlier 5.5.x versions will be easy. Cumulus 5.5.2 offers an enhanced Pix Asset Converter which enables digital images cataloged in Cumulus to be converted into JPEG, TIFF and BMP formats, as well as conversion into RGB, CMYK and Greyscale color spaces with the simple click of a button. Changes in size per pixel, percentage and resolution are also possible. All filters released after the 5.5.1 release are now included in 5.5.2, containing filters for cataloging and reading specific metadata from EPS, PDF, BMP, IPTC, PNG, PBM and generic Unix files. The Cumulus OPI support will now also be available in connection with Server/Client AssetTransfer, a functionality of the Workgroup and Enterprise Edition. Also included is a Quark XTension update enabling users to Drag and Drop from Cumulus into Quark XPress 5.x. Cumulus 5.5.2 is immediately available for Mac OS, Windows, UNIX (Linux, Solaris) in English, German, French and Japanese. This service update will be available free for owners of Cumulus 5.5. Customers working with an older version may purchase an upgrade. www.canto.com
