Altova, Inc. announced the release of the XML Spy 4.2 Suite, a comprehensive product-line of easy-to-use software tools, facilitating all aspects of advanced XML application development. The XML Spy 4.2 Suite consists of the XML Spy 4.2 Integrated Development Environment (IDE), the XML Spy 4.2 XSLT Designer, and the XML Spy 4.2 Document Editor, a tool-set for all XML application development. XML Spy 4.2 Suite adds support for the newest XML technologies, including SOAP. XML Spy 4.2 Suite also adds support for advanced Microsoft XML parser technologies (MSXML4). XML Spy 4.2 Suite is designed to maximize the productivity of today’s software professionals by supporting all of the newest XML standards and technology platforms in a timely fashion at low-costs to the developer. The XML Spy 4.2 Suite is available immediately for download and purchase. www.xmlspy.com

Virage, Inc. announced VS Publishing, a product for publishing web-based rich media. VS Publishing is built upon the company’s video application platform. The new publishing solution offers a streamlined workflow with simple editorial control and greater web site programming capabilities. VS Publishing is available from Virage as either in-house software or as a hosted service.
VS Publishing provides content owners with production and programming tools to create and deliver dynamic rich media programming to one or more web sites. The Virage solution give producers, editors or webmasters a web-based interface for selecting, building and posting content highlights from an archive or recently broadcast event onto any part of a web site in a matter of minutes. Virage also announced the release of VS Webcasting, a product that allows corporations to self-produce live and on-demand webcasting events such as executive communications, human resource broadcasts and market announcements.
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SoftQuad Software, Ltd. announced XMetaL 3, a major upgrade to its XML content creation software. The new version features ease-of-use and collaboration
capabilities for content authors and provides developers with an XML editor with a rich development environment that supports the W3C XML Schema. New features include: Revision Marking; Preview in HTML and PDF; Enhanced integration with Microsoft Office; and support for WebDAV. XMetaL 3’s new developer features include: XMetaL Forms Toolkit; Java API; and support for both W3C Schema and DTDs. XMetaL 3 will be available in January 2002. New users can purchase XMetaL 3 for $495 (U.S.) per single user license; an upgrade is $195 (U.S.). XMetaL is sold directly and through authorized resellers. Volume discounts, site licenses, partner programs and on-site training are all available. www.softquad.com

Jcorporate Ltd. announced that it is shipping a new release of eContent. Based on Java, eContent 2.0 includes enhancements to its web content management capabilities, and is now based on both Expresso and Struts, the two dominant OSS Java Web application development frameworks in use. eContent Release 2.0’s new features shift content control to line-of-business users with an improved web browser-based user interface that allows users and developers to publish, maintain and update their Web content efficiently. eContent 2.0 now offers XML content management. Other eContent Release 2.0 features include enhanced workflow management, Struts integration, JavaServer Pages (JSP) template-based content presentation and deployment, enhanced meta-data handling and database publishing, customizable functionality for large and complex web sites, and enhanced virtual team collaboration. eContent v2.0 runs on Linux, Solaris, AIX, Windows NT/2000/XP, MacOS and other platforms and is available for shipment immediately. www.jcorporate.com

Jacada Ltd. announced general availability of the Jacada Interface Server 7.1, which adds XHTML generation capability to Jacada’s integrated user interface development and deployment environment. The Jacada Interface Server provides a common user interface layer for both new application development and existing legacy systems. Release 7.1 enables users to generate both Java source code and XHTML graphical user interfaces from a single design from a “what-you-see-is-what-you-get” (WYSIWYG) development environment. Pricing for the Jacada Interface Server 7.1 depends on individual configurations. Pricing starts at $4,500 per Interface Developer Kit and $30,000 per server for deployment. www.jacada.com

Sane Solutions announced the availability of the NetTracker Data Conduit for Vignette. The NetTracker Data Conduit for Vignette provides direct integration between the NetTracker eBusiness Edition and Vignette’s content management platforms, giving customers the ability to extract the valuable customer insight contained within the customized content served by Vignette and load it directly into NetTracker’s dynamic Web summaries for e-business intelligence. The NetTracker Data Conduit for Vignette is available immediately, starting at $10,000, and includes on-site professional services including installation, configuration and training. www.sane.com

Atomz announced that Atomz Publish has been enhanced with several new features, including infinite versioning and visual version comparison, spell checking, increased integration with Atomz Search, scheduled updates and content inclusion. With Atomz’s new infinite versioning capability, documents and templates within Atomz Publish can be stored and versioned indefinitely, and Web-content administrators can go back to any historical version of a file using the Revive, Revert, and Compare utilities. Atomz Search customers who use the Incremental Indexing feature can now link this feature directly into Atomz Publish. When Atomz Publish users make a change to any page, they can now schedule the page to go live on the Web site at a particular time. Publish previously offered the ability to approve the document for a particular time and date, but the actual deployment of that page depended on a site-wide publish to occur. www.atomz.com

Innodata announced that it has acquired ISOGEN International from DataChannel, Inc. for approximately $1.3 million. The purchase price consists of an initial cash payment of approximately $650,000 and two promissory notes, each for $325,000, payable on April 30, 2002 and September 30, 2002, with interest. ISOGEN is based in Dallas, Texas, and has offices in Austin, Minneapolis and Bellevue, Washington. ISOGEN International specializes in sophisticated consulting and training in the knowledge-processing technologies of XML, SGML and other standards. ISOGEN International’s 44 employees will operate as a new division of Innodata under George Kondrach, who co-founded ISOGEN International in 1991 and who will serve as the new division’s President.
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