Versim Technologies announced the availability of the Versim XML Differencing Plugin for Altova XMLSpy. With the Versim Plugin, XMLSpy users can easily identify the differences between XML documents, both on the file system or remotely addressable via URL. The Versim Plugin is fully integrated with XMLSpy, and allows you to navigate backwards and forwards through documents, verifying, accepting or rejecting changes that are presented to you. The Versim XML Differencing Plugin is available to download as a fully functional 30-day evaluation. www.versim.com/cgi-bin/view/download
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Content IQ, the content management division of The IQ Business Group, and Venetica announced a partnership agreement under which Content IQ will be a value-added reseller in South Africa for Venetica. The IQ group has operations in Sydney and Melbourne in Australia, Boston and Atlanta in the USA and in London in the UK. www.venetica.com
Zope Corporation announced the release of Zope 2.6.1, the latest version of the open source application server. The new release is the first to contain a majority of enhancements from the Zope community. Zope 2.6.1 has improved internationalization and translation support for page templates and enhanced full-text indexing, with faster results and better handling of world languages. System administrators will appreciate the improved OS signal handling and log rotation support. High volume web sites will benefit from improved object cache control, providing better performance with lower memory usage. With this release, Linux and Solaris binary builds now include Python 2.1.3 with large file support, providing pre-packaged support for large site deployments. Zope 2.6.1 can be downloaded from www.zope.org
InStranet, Inc., provider of Content-Based Applications for the Enterprise, announced the release of its new Contact Centers In-Line Application, an enterprise software application designed to automate the content-rich processes of creating, distributing, monitoring, evaluating and managing product and support documents for contact centers. Using a content engine in combination with user-profile security rules, CCIL automatically filters agent content access based on customizable factors such as: job title, market focus, product specialty, contact center site, awareness level, training rating and language. With CCIL, critical documents and content can be found quickly using the integrated search capability. Furthermore, documents can be segmented using an algorithm to ensure that content is “smart” and provides an agent exactly the right information at the right time. CCIL is easily linked to CRM systems and other business channels through InStranets J2EE-based applications exchange infrastructure. www.InStranet.com
iMakeNews announced the launch of its Weblog management or ‘blogging’ service, DirectBlog. The new service enables businesses to harness the power of Weblogs, which provide untapped channels for e-marketing, knowledge management, sales and collaborative communications. Through DirectBlog, organizations will be able to publish and e-mail customized and personalized Weblogs to segmented groups. DirectBlog will be available to companies and iMakeNews’ reseller network in April 2003. DirectBlog provides iMakeNews customers and channel partners with all of the technical abilities of a ‘blog, along with the features and flexibility of iMakeNews’ e-marketing services. Individuals already using the firm’s Web-based content management, design, subscription management, data analysis, and other tools can extend their application to ‘blogging. Through a single user interface, they can create, maintain and e-mail ‘blogs on a “one-to-one” basis. www.imakenews.com
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
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