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
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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
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
CambridgeDocs announced the xDoc Converter 1.7, an update to its xDoc Converter product. The xDoc Converter is a tool for migrating unstructured content from Microsoft Word, HTML, and Adobe PDF documents into any XML schema (XSD) or DTD for improved searching and indexing across the enterprise. The new release includes the Microsoft Excel Driver, which can be used to transform Microsoft Excel 97, 2000, and XP spreadsheets into XML. xDocs modular architecture enables the Microsoft Excel driver to produce ppXML, which can be then be further transformed into HTML, XSL:FO, PDF, or Microsoft RTF. “Visual Rules By Example”, which allows an end user to “highlight” a phrase or some text in a visually rendered version of the original document is also in the new version. The ability to convert XML and XSL:FO into Microsofts Rich Text Format is also in this release. This capability makes it possible, for example, to convert a PDF file into XML and then convert the XML into RTF for editing and opening within Microsoft Word. www.cambridgedocs.com
Network Associates, Inc. announced the availability of McAfee PortalShield 1.0 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server. McAfee PortalShield offers virus protection for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001, 2003 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. McAfee PortalShield is integrated with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) for policy management and enforcement, enterprise-wide visibility, rapid software deployment and distribution of the latest virus definitions. Each time a document is written to or read from the document libraries, the McAfee PortalShield software scans the content and compares it with a list of known viruses and suspected virus-like behavior. McAfee PortalShield also scans for content within the document or Webpart using the rules and policies defined within the McAfee PortalShield software. Lexical and content management capabilities enable McAfee PortalShield to apply these rules and policies to over 280 document types such as Acrobat Reader and Microsoft Word. Using McAfee PortalShield rules, document download and upload actions can be prevented, and alerts sent to the administrator if the documents contain banned content. McAfee PortalShield is currently available through Network Associates channel partners and its direct sales force. www.networkassociates.com
SAP AG announced the launch of the “Powered by SAP NetWeaver” initiative, a new program designed to empower SAP partners and ISVs with the SAP NetWeaver technology platform to build new business applications. The new program builds upon the SAP NetWeaver Partner Initiative. Initial participants in the “Powered by SAP NetWeaver” program include Merant, Metreo, TimeVision, Trigo and Vertex. While traditionally SAP has certified companies for component interface compliance, this new program offers companies the entire platform for application development. Companies can achieve “Powered by SAP NetWeaver” status by offering third-party applications deployed by SAP Web Application Server of the SAP NetWeaver platform and accessible through SAP Enterprise Portal via pre-built iViews. Merant’s Collage content management system and Trigo’s Product Center are both “Powered by SAP NetWeaver.” www.sap.com
Mediasurface announced their latest release, Mediasurface 4.7. When creating or updating content using the CMC, Mediasurface’s content contribution interface, the author can now request the generation of a summary of that content using the theme summarisation feature. Version 4.7 improves the management and monitoring of the Mediasurface Application Engine with introduction of a JMX compliant interface. Reporting on and managing a number of Mediasurface operational areas, including caches, logging and job scheduling. This release adds support for compound documents – content items that contain other content items, such as an article constructed of individual sections, which might be owned by different authors. Additionally, Mediasurface 4.7 allows authors of XML content to preview their documents through user-defined XSL templates. 4.7 offers a range of system based image manipulation capabilities, including the ability to resize, crop, reformat images within the Mediasurface application. www.mediasurface.com
Versant Corporation announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to merge with Poet Holdings, Inc. Poet shareholders will receive 1.4 shares of Versant Common Stock in exchange for one Poet share. Based on Versant’s stock price as of close of market on September 26, 2003 the Versant stock to be issued to Poet shareholders would be worth approximately $26 million and represents approximately 45% of the pro forma combined company’s outstanding shares. Poet’s Fast Objects object database complements Versant’s VDS object database, which is used in high-performance large-scale real-time applications. The joint product line will offer customers the ability to manage XML and other types of hierarchical and navigational data. Versant also plans to target a broad range of applications that include data management, telecommunications, real-time integration, catalog information for supply-chain, and government and defense applications. www.versant.com, www.poet.com