Starbase Corporation announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire worldweb.net, Inc. worldweb.net, Inc. The acquisition positions Starbase in the multi-billion dollar market of software products for the creation and management of code and content. The transaction, valued at $26.0 million, consists of approximately $560,000 cash and 8.3 million shares of Starbase common stock valued at $25.4 million, based on the closing price of Starbase common stock as of February 9, 2001. The transaction, which is expected to close within one week, brings together code and content management technologies making Web site design, development and deployment more efficient, affordable and accessible. In addition to the planned integration of StarTeam and Expressroom I/O, Starbase will also separately market the Expressroom I/O content management solution to Global 2000 organizations. www.worldweb.net, www.starbase.com
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Infoteria announced that its iXSLT 2.0 product has been integrated into the latest version of Altova’s XML Spy 3.5 product. XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) processors are generally used to convert XML to HTML because browsers and applications used in today’s market do not yet fully support XML and XSL files. XSLT processors can also transform XML documents into other XML formats for use by other systems. XML Spy 3.5 includes the recently updated version of Infoteria’s iXSLT product, version 2.0c. iXSLT has been upgraded to support Windows NT (Service Pack 4) and Windows 2000 operating system platforms. It includes XSL File syntax that is compliant with the latest XSLT recommendation (November 16, 1999). Other enhancements include the support of XSLT and XPATH Extension Elements; new options for testing performance (“-t” switch); new options for handling external entities (“-g” and “-G” switches); and significant performance improvements. iXSLT is a W3C-compliant XSLT processor that uses files to transform XML data. It can transform a single source of XML data into multiple formats for use by personal computers, personal digital assistants, cellular devices, and game machines. www.infoteria.com, www.xmlspy.com
Open Market, Inc. announced the availability of its software solutions on BEA Systems’ WebLogic Server version 5.1 from BEA Systems, Inc. The company also announced that Open Market and BEA Systems will be engaging in collaborative selling and marketing of Open Market’s content-centric eBusiness applications layered on top of the BEA WebLogic Server. As a result, Open Market and BEA will be providing enterprises with a solution that enables them to optimize interactions with site visitors, customers, and channels. Open Market’s Content Server and associated applications — Content Centre, Personalization Centre, Catalog Centre, Integration Centre and Marketing Studio — are layered on top of BEA WebLogic Server. By selling its application suite in collaboration with its platform partners, Open Market provides customers with the flexibility, scalability and interoperability required to rapidly deploy e-business initiatives. www.bea.com, http://www.openmarket.com
Plumtree Software announced integration between the Plumtree Corporate Portal and Interwoven’s content management software. Available now, the new Plumtree Portal Gadget for Interwoven TeamSite software, a plug-in component for integrating Interwoven’s content submission capabilities into the portal, offers customers a solution for managing, publishing and disseminating information to the audiences that use corporate portals as the gateway to their business resources. It allows users to take Web content from submission to publication on a personalized Internet desktop that also incorporates those users’ e-mail, sales leads, inventory reports and market news. The integration of TeamSite with the Plumtree Corporate Portal enables users to more quickly and efficiently manage portal content. TeamSite allows individuals or teams to develop and quality assure (QA) content in separate work areas that are virtual copies of the live portal. Content is then submitted to a staging area for merging and final QA before publishing. The new gadget can also initiate a TeamSite workflow to automatically route content for approval and/or publishing to the Plumtree portal. This process streamlines the submission process allowing faster time-to-portal. The Interwoven gadget was developed by channel partner OAO Technology Solutions, Inc. , www.interwoven.com, www.oaot.com
XYZFind Corp. released XYZFind Server 1.0, its new repository, search, and query engine for XML. XYZFind Server, which has been under development for nearly two years, dramatically reduces the effort required to store, index, and intelligently search and query XML. Trial versions for Solaris, Linux, and WinNT/2K are available for download on the company’s website at www.xyzfind.com
NQL Inc. announced the full commercial availability of the NQL ContentAnywhere system — the company’s enterprise-level content integration and management platform. The NQL ContentAnywhere system was designed to be a complete solution for aggregating data from sources including the Internet, corporate databases, legacy systems and documents and quickly delivering it to virtually any destination, including enterprise and desktop applications, corporate databases, Internet-enabled devices, wireless devices, and corporate portals. With a wide range of content management functionalities, the NQL ContentAnywhere system can address the needs of IT architects, application developers, users and web site developers with technical elegance and simplicity. It provides a platform for customizing information collection (intelligent agents), content naming (taxonomy), content aggregation (central repository) and content refreshing at appropriate intervals (intelligent cache). Features include: A drop-down menu within Microsoft Office 2000 applications that enables direct insertion of text and multimedia content from the repository without leaving the application; The ability to copy and paste or drag and drop data into any desktop application or system; Access to content by mobile devices, such as Palm VII handhelds, Pocket PCs and WAP-enabled smart phones; Integration of repository information into database applications through an ODBC driver; Embedding of content tags in HTML pages using Microsoft Internet Information Services; Sharing of aggregated content between organizations via Microsoft.NET Web Services; and personalizing content by compiling the most frequently used information into a list of favorites for quick access. www.nqli.com
diCarta, Inc. and Documentum announced an agreement for both companies to jointly market their products to deliver a contract management offering to the Global 2000 that utilizes diCarta’s B2B contract lifecycle management software, diCarta Contracts, and leverages the Documentum 4i eBusiness content management platform. diCarta Contracts together with the Documentum platform provides customers with the ability to manage revenues, track obligations and renewals, and collaborate with suppliers and customers on contract terms and conditions, as well as manage the content of these contracts and other records. www.documentum.com, www.dicarta.com
NCompass Labs announced that they have passed the technical integration requirements for Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 with its integrated solution, Resolution Content Connector for Commerce Server 2000. Content Connector provides business users with a full complement of content management capabilities for e-commerce applications. Content Connector enables enterprises to use the full functionality of NCompass Resolution to build dynamic, content-driven e-commerce Web sites using Microsoft Commerce Server 2000. Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 customers can build rich, targeted and personalized experience for site users Personalized content pages composed of both unstructured editorial content and structured catalog content can be created within the Commerce Server 2000 Business Desk application or directly within the Web site itself through Resolution’s Web Browser Client. Sites can be quickly deployed because of the tight integration of Resolution’s automated content publishing, workflow and content sharing capabilities with Commerce Server 2000’s product catalog, profiling engine, transactional processing, shopping card and Business Desk application. Resolution’s open, COM-based API and built-in integration with the full range of Microsoft technologies simplify integration with other e-business applications and speed deployment. Businesses that purchase Resolution with the Content Connector will have a complete enterprise content-management solution, with full access to Resolution’s rich feature set, including the COM API, template-based authoring, approval workflow, rich Web content authoring, wireless device support and multi-language support. www.ncompasslabs.com
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