Equilibrium announced it is working with Microsoft Corp. to integrate Equilibrium MediaRich Image Server with Commerce Server 2002 and Content Management Server. The dynamic imaging integration provided to customers and partners reduces the time required to create an Internet presence. MediaRich is server-based imaging software that generates, updates, and delivers dynamic visual content to the Web and smart devices. By using MediaRich Image Server, companies are able to set up templates to automate image-processing tasks normally done manually by artists and technical teams. MediaRich has dynamic imaging features such as zoom, pan, colorize, resize, mix, match, 360-degree rotation, composite, font generation, and localization. www.equilibrium.com

RightsLine, Inc. and Artesia Technologies announced they have signed a Global Technology Partnership Agreement to offer integrated, bundled solutions of their respective software products as well as collaborating on co-marketing and sales activities. The partnership will initially focus in North America with the potential to spread to other global geographies. The development of the integrated offering will provide content owners with a single platform for managing both their digital assets and the rights and permissions associated with them. Artesia

Whitehill Technologies, Inc. and Nimble Technology have entered into a reselling partnership for Nimble Technology to offer customers the Whitehill Composer. Nimble Technology will offer users of the Nimble Integration Suite – an XML-based enterprise data integration platform used to power Web services and applications – the Whitehill Composer. Whitehill Composer is an easy-to-use XSL editor engineered to generate WYSIWYG XSL for XML-to-HTML transformation. Users can drag and drop XML data elements from a menu type environment directly into a browser and have the XSL automatically created for both the browser style and the data element. www.nimble.com, www.whitehilltech.com

divine, inc. announced the availability of divine/Northern Light portlets for the Oracle 9i Application Server Portal Framework. These portlets enable the quick deployment of divine’s search and content integration technology, allowing business users to quickly access Web content, corporate information and a comprehensive library of over 7,000 business publications. The combination of divine Search and Content Integration (dSCI) portlets and the Oracle 9i Application Server Portal Framework enables joint customers to quickly provision access to these information resources. divine Portal Drivers are a set of solutions that combine divine’s software and service offerings with the major portal platforms. These solutions provide external content, content management, and collaboration. As part of the divine Portal Drivers Program, additional portlets will be available for the Oracle 9i AS later this year. www.divine.com

iKnowledge, Inc. announced Version 2.0 of its ActiveContent. ActiveContent is a content solution developed from the ground-up with support for J2EE. ActiveContent is a comprehensive solution for secure content aggregation, collaboration, management, distribution, monetization and syndication. ActiveContent supports adaptive workflow, enabling companies to retain or customize departmental or enterprise work processes and allowing organizations to securely scale their content strategy in all dimensions including internal or external, and across all relevant platforms and devices. The latest version of ActiveContent provides ease of use and control using a web-based GUI interface designed to make organizing and sharing content simpler. The ActiveContent solution integrates with existing legacy systems. www.iknowledge.com

Stellent, Inc. announced it has acquired the assets of privately held Kinecta Corp, adding content integration, syndication, and distribution capabilities to their content management solution. Combined with the Stellent Content Management technology, these new capabilities will enable Stellent’s customers to aggregate content from multiple repositories, manage it in the Stellent environment and distribute it to any audience. Additionally, the technology will allow Stellent customers to easily deploy content from staging environments to production environments and roll back to earlier versions of Web sites. The Kinecta technology is built on Java, J2EE, XML and Information Content and Exchange (ICE). Stellent will continue to market the existing Kinecta product line while integrating the technology into the Stellent Content Management system. The initial product integration will be released in the quarter ending June 30, 2002. As part of the acquisition, Stellent will hire Kinecta’s core development team and retain Kinecta’s current office located in San Francisco, Calif. www.stellent.com, www.kinecta.com

OASIS announced its members have formed the OASIS Rights Language Technical Committee to advance a common XML rights language standard for the DRM marketplace. Their work will provide a universal method for specifying and managing rights associated with all kinds of resources including digital content and web services. The OASIS specification will support a wide variety of
business models, expressing both simple and complex rights, and will promote interoperability between systems regardless of platform, media type or format. ContentGuard intends to submit its eXtensible rights Markup Language (XrML) to the 0ASIS Committee as a starting point for this work. XrML, recently selected as the base architecture for the MPEG-21 Rights Expression Language, can be used in content-centric as well as service-based business models. Members of the OASIS Rights Language Technical Committee include ContentGuard, Hewlett-Packard Company, Microsoft, Reuters, VeriSign Inc., and other OASIS members. Participation remains open to all organizations and individuals interested in advancing a common rights language. www.oasis-open.org/join