Thomas Technology Solutions, Inc. has entered into a partnership agreement with Documentum. ThomasTech builds content management and publishing solutions for industrial manufacturers and commercial publishers. The company will integrate Documentum’s software, along with other applications, into the end-to-end technology solutions it provides to clients worldwide. ThomasTech is one of a few Documentum partners offering data conversion and pre-press services, thus providing a complete range of content management capabilities to clients. www.thomastechsolutions.com

Equilibrium announced the availability of Equilibrium MediaRich Image Server 3.0. MediaRich 3.0 is server-based templating software that automates image production and enables the dynamic delivery of visual assets to the Web, wireless and print media. New features in version 3.0 include the ability to generate thumbnail previews for searching images and multi-page documents created in Microsoft Office applications such as PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Internet Explorer. MediaRich 3.0 also supports native-CMYK images to preserve the CMYK data when performing operations directly onto the image. MediaRich 3.0 supports the creation and extraction of ZIP archives, which is useful for companies that allow customers to save images directly from their site. MediaRich 3.0 has a new COM interface for administrative functions such as cache clearing and dependency checking. With added support for virtual file systems and FSNet plug-in, MediaRich 3.0 accesses image source files by defining a number of virtual file systems, which indicates the root of a file tree on a system or network. The FSNet plug-in can implement HTTP and FTP access via standard URLs by defining virtual file systems named ‘http’ and ‘ftp’. This even has support for Microsoft’s “integrated” authentication method. www.equilibrium.com

OpenLink Software, Inc., a provider of universal data access and enterprise information integration middleware, announces the commercial release date of Virtuoso 3.0 — the latest edition of its cross platform Virtual Database for SQL, XML, and Web Services. The new release enables transparent and concurrent access in real-time to heterogeneous data sources that include ODBC/JDBC/OLE DB/.NET- accessible databases, XML documents through XML, XPath, and XQuery, and data-set oriented Web Services. It also integrates transparently with runtime environments for distributed computing such as Microsoft .NET, Mono, and J2EE, enabling the creation and hosting of WSDL-compliant XML Web Services, Stored Procedures, Functions, Triggers, and User Defined Types that are written in Java or any .NET bound language. Virtuoso 3.0 is currently available in public beta form for the following platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and UNIX. It will be commercially available during the first week of March 2003. Virtuoso 3.0 is available for download. www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso

IXIASOFT announced the public availability of the beta version for the IXIASOFT Integration Kit for Microsoft Content Management Server 2002. IXIASOFT will make available the Integration Kit for TEXTML server. The integration enables Content Management Server 2002 developers and system integrators to deploy sites that take advantage of TEXTML Server’s XML search technology. Combined with Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, which produces and publishes XML content natively, TEXTML Server accelerates the development of XML search capabilities. The integration kit consists of .NET Composite Controls that can be dragged and dropped from the Visual Studio .NET toolbox into a Content Management Server 2002 site being developed. These customizable controls will enable developers to provide search and sort functionalities on postings based on the content of placeholders, properties and custom properties. The Integration Kit is available for developers and system integrators from the IXIASOFT website. The IXIASOFT support team is available to offer assistance for the installation and configuration of the Kit and explain its functionality. www.ixiasoft.com

Microsoft Corp. InfoPath , the new Office family application formerly code-named “XDocs,” now supports Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), a national XML standard for the healthcare industry. Built on XML, Microsoft InfoPath streamlines the process of gathering information through rich, dynamic forms and ensures that customers can reuse information across their organization. With InfoPath, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and HMOs can capture vital information about patients within an InfoPath form that they create, validate the information for accuracy, and save it in a CDA-compliant file, which can be read and used by other back-end systems, such as hospital information systems, document management software, portals or other organizations. A physician filling out a patient’s diagnosis form could query an external knowledge base to identify the appropriate medication covered by the patient’s insurance, check for potential interactions with the other medications in the patient’s file, and submit the order to the patient’s local drugstore for the pharmacy to fill – all from within InfoPath. www.microsoft.com/office/preview/infopath

divine, inc. announced the availability of Version 5.0 of divine Content Server. New features include: divine Content Server DocLink, which makes saving documents to and retrieving documents from Content Server as simple as working with local files in Microsoft Windows Explorer; divine Content Server Asset Filters, which automatically transform content from common document types (such as Microsoft Word or Excel) into HTML or XML when a document is saved to Content Server; divine Content Server Autoclassifier, a taxonomy and classification capability that leverages technology divine acquired from Northern Light; enhanced globalization features; and expanded support for Web services. Content Server runs on J2EE application servers such as BEA WebLogic Server, IBM WebSphere Application Server, Oracle9i Application Server and Sun Microsystem Inc.’s Sun ONE Application Server. www.divine.com

Entopia, Inc. unveiled Entopia K-Bus, a software platform that connects the information, people and resources of an organization through a multi-faceted metadata layer that is transparent to end-users. The result is relevant information — on demand — that considers not only the semantic value of content and information, but also the social activity around it and its organizational context. Coupled with enterprise repositories, applications and business processes, and built on J2EE architecture, the K-Bus solution builds knowledge assets out of existing content while information continues to reside in its original repositories such as file shares, email servers, Quantum (Entopia’s content management and collaboration suite), document management repositories, the intranet, the extranet and the Internet. The K-Bus enterprise knowledge infrastructure (EKI) automatically creates intelligent metadata by 1) semantically indexing content and data; 2) tracking the context, popularity and social activity surrounding this data in real-time; and 3) adding organizational and personal context. This metadata is the key to the “knowledge” available in the enterprise and. Entopia K-Bus is currently in beta testing. General availability of Entopia K-Bus will begin in May 2003. www.entopia.com