Percussion Software announced of a new partnership with netrinsiQ. Under the terms of the partnership, netrinsiQ will offer Percussion Software’s Rhythmyx Content Manager to its client base. www.percussion.com

The Java Community Process’ (JCP) JSR 170 proposes that content repositories have a dedicated, standard way of interaction with applications that deal with content. It provides for access to content bi- directionally on a granular level within a repository. This will prevent applications from having to adapt to every vendor’s proprietary API to interact with content repositories. The JSR further proposes to define a way to integrate content-producer-applications (CMS) and content-consumer- applications (CRM, Portal, etc.). The proposal focuses on read/write access, binary and text based data, full-text searching, filtering, observation, versioning, semi, hard and soft-structured data. The Spec Lead is David Nuescheler, CTO of Day. Initial Expert Group to include Apache, ATG, Broadvision, Day, Deloitte Consulting, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Interwoven, SAP Portals, Silverstream, Sun, and Vignette. Information regarding progress on JSR 170 can be accessed at:

Seinet has launched a new campaign to grow its international business. In order to achieve this, the company has established several agreements with regional integrators starting with IPA in France and Mediasystemen B.V. in the Netherlands. This will be followed by future announcements in the UK and USA. Seinet has also recently hired an experienced International Sales and Marketing team to further develop these markets. To address the mission-critical requirements of newspaper and magazine publishers, Seinet will focus on developing cross-media publishing tools and will partner with local integrators who are well positioned to meet the needs of the national media. IPA Systems France is a French integrator of multi-channel publishing processes. They implement comprehensive editorial solutions for newspapers and magazines. Mediasystemen B.V. is a player in the newspaper market where it has been developing solutions since 1986. www.seinet.es

SDL International has announced a new release of Enterprise Translation Server, Version 5, with advances in linguistic and user functionality. Enterprise Translation Server Version 5 will ship with updated rules and dictionary files for all language directions. SDL has also made significant improvements to the foreign-language to English modules, particularly, French/English, Spanish/English, Italian/English and Portuguese/English. In addition, core dictionaries have been considerably expanded, particularly bi-lateral English/French, bi-lateral English/German, English/Spanish and Portuguese/English. More than 12,500 additional entries have been included within the core dictionaries, together with more than 1,000 new core phrases. SDL has also completed a cycle of the most thorough linguistic regression testing that the engine has seen since in recent years. Administration and translation privileges are now assignable by username and password or by IP address, with tracking of usage possible per user and per language direction. www.sdlintl.com

Quiver, Inc. and NextBrick, announceda strategic partnership enabling NextBrick to resell and integrate Quiver’s unique information management products. NextBrick will use Quiver products for its client solutions addressing knowledge management, corporate portal and application integration initiatives. In particular, Quiver’s QKS Classifier will be used to organize unstructured and structured data into an intuitive, browse-able structure for the most effective information management. NextBrick clients will have the opportunity to utilize Quiver’s unique categorization and taxonomy platform to create, populate, and maintain intuitive, drill-down directories within any existing or planned information management initiative. QKS Classifier works with existing systems through open APIs and XML output to easily integrate alongside any portal, content management, search, or application currently deployed. www.quiver.com/products

FatWire Software announced FatWire Spark pCM, a low-cost content management product for portals. Spark will exist as an integrated, portlet interface for BEA WebLogic Portal. Spark portal Content Management (pCM) will include basic CM functions including: workflow, a “to do” list, simplified user and group management, basic search functionality, rollback, and a function to automatically generate content management interfaces for business users. Spark will run on the BEA WebLogic Portal. FatWire’s Spark will start at $25,000, and will be available spring 2002. FatWire’s Spark can easily be upgraded to a complete dynamic content management solution. The cost-effective product is dedicated to meet the needs of small to mid-size pCM projects. www.fatwire.com