Basis Technology announced the release of its Chinese Morphological Analyzer (CMA), an accurate segmentation engine for search and retrieval of Chinese text. Chinese Morphological Analyzer combines dictionary-retrieval technology with syntactic analysis to yield accurate text segmentation results for both the simplified and traditional written forms of the language. CMA boasts a comprehensive online Chinese dictionary of nearly 1,000,000 headwords, incorporating phonological, lexical and grammatical attributes. This information is used by CMA algorithms to segment and accurately disambiguate Chinese text using contextual clues combined with syntactic analysis. Morphological analysis of the Chinese language is an inherently complex problem. Chinese is written without explicit word boundaries, and it lacks the script transition cues of Japanese and Korean scripts. Furthermore, each character can potentially function as an isolated word (free morpheme) or part of a compound word (bound morpheme) or phrase. For these reasons, maintaining online forms and databases, and facilitating effective search and retrieval, are particularly difficult in the Chinese language. Chinese Morphological Analyzer is written in portable ANSI C++ and has a pure Unicode (UCS2) internal architecture that handles every major Chinese encoding format. Chinese Morphological Analyzer is licensed as a royalty-free software development kit (SDK) or as a source code distribution on all major platforms, including Win32, Solaris, HP-UX, Digital UNIX and Linux. www.basistech.com

adXML.org announced the successful transmittal of the first live digital insertion order “written” in the adXML vocabulary. Having launched its first beta in February of this year, adXML.org is this week proposing a 1.0 release of the online DTD section of the adXML specification. adXML.org’s end-of-year goal is to include all media types in its final release. The first digital insertion order was transmitted by Mediaplex, Inc. and received on the publisher side by L90, Inc. Utilizing the adXML vocabulary, the order described all data specifications for the placement of an online campaign for a automobile advertiser. Mediaplex performed the campaign planning, buying and ad-serving functions on behalf of its client, Critical Mass, an interactive advertising agency. adXML.org was launched in December 1999 as a vendor-independent initiative to develop business practices and infrastructure standards for the full automation of the exchange of commerce and content data among all sectors of the advertising industry. Now composed of more than 140 participating companies, adXML.org has defined nine subcommittees representing traditional media including print, TV, radio and outdoor, as well as new media including online, e-mail, set-top box/broadband and the wireless market. www.adxml.org

Ironside Technologies Inc. announced that they have reached agreement-in-principle with Commerce One, Inc. for the purpose of real-time seller/buyer connectivity. Commerce One and Ironside expect to finalize terms and execute definitive agreements by summer 2000. Ironside intends to integrate its Ironworks sell-side product suite and Ironside Network service offering into Commerce One MarketSite and Global Trading Web solutions. Ironside expects to support Commerce One’s xCBL transactions within the Ironworks product suite and the Ironside Network service. XCBL is expected to provide Ironside Powered suppliers access to an extensive worldwide business-buyer community. The Ironworks 4.0 product suite will provide integration capability to the Commerce One MarketSite Global Trading Portal, as well as individual trading exchanges running on the MarketSite Portal Solution. Additionally, the Ironside Network “real-time exchange to the exchanges” is expected to provide suppliers on-demand real-time integration into the entire MarketSite community of exchanges. In addition, Ironside and Commerce One expect to collaborate to streamline and simplify content management functions, working together to homogenize supplier catalog information and automate content management functions. www.ironside.com, www.commerceone.com

Canto announced Cumulus 5 – Enterprise Edition, designed to manage and archive all types of digital assets used in production, publishing, communication, and other workflows. The release of the Enterprise Edition completes the Cumulus product line, which also includes a Single User Edition and a Workgroup Edition. Varying Options exist for the different Editions. The Enterprise Edition embraces and extends the success of the Workgroup Edition. It offers the most complete set of functionality and benefits. Cumulus 5 – Enterprise Edition will be available this month to a number of pre-selected customer sites. Broad availability through System Integrators and Solution Partners will follow in Q3/00. The “starter kit” of the Enterprise Edition is priced at US$33,000 and includes the server application and 20 concurrent client licenses. It also includes the Cumulus Internet Client, the Browser, the Vault and URL AssetStore Options, and five days of technical service. Additional client licenses are available for US$400 per client. Additional service days are available at US$1,500. The Oracle Connect Module will be announced separately. Maintenance contracts and the Cumulus SDK will be offered separately. The Cumulus 5 – Enterprise Edition is a fully cross-platform solution. The server software will be available for Solaris, Linux, Windows 2000 and MacOS X. The client software is available for MacOS and Windows. It also includes Internet access through standard Web Browsers. www.canto.com

Software AG USA has begun selling Tamino to U.S. companies. A native XML information server, Tamino is part of a full suite of native XML products coming from Software AG. Tamino provides a complete Web-enabled data management system for data exchange and application integration. Unlike relational databases, Tamino stores, retrieves and exchanges data in XML as its natural format, without the need for conversion to other formats. All of Software AG’s products and services are specifically geared to the requirements of B2B solutions and work well to integrate front-and-back-office solutions, allowing e-business services to function as an integral part of a company’s overall business. Tamino leverages the main benefit of XML: the dramatic increase in interoperability of data among applications. Using Tamino, data structures of any kind can be expressed in XML format and stored and treated as XML objects. XML data without a previously defined structure is also accepted and stored, unlike the classical database systems that require explicit structuring. Software AG’s database technologies, including field compression and record caching, as well as high volume capabilities, provide an XML-based data management system capable of handling large volumes of data for high throughput which can manage concurrent user requests very efficiently for high performance. Tamino also supports single-sign-on, industry-standard security systems and existing methods of encryption (such as RACF, NTLM, Kerberos, and SSL), integrating security concepts at different lTamino is available immediately for Windows NT. A version for Unix will be available during second quarter 2000, with versions for Linux and IBM mainframes following later in the year. Tamino is designed to minimize the total cost of ownership, with prices starting at $25,000 per processor. www.softwareagusa.com

IntraNet Solutions, Inc. announced the availability of Xpedio Merge. As an add-on to Xpedio Content Management System, Xpedio Merge features a component-based publishing module for assembling complex publications from a variety of managed source content. Xpedio Merge facilitates dynamic assembly and personalization of complex publications that allows multiple authors to use components managed in the Xpedio Content Server to create Web viewable and printable publications. Applications for this software include sales and marketing materials, personalized training manuals and responses to complex RFPs.