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Adobe announced the immediate availability of Adobe Acrobat 3D, new desktop software that helps extend document-based 3D design collaboration capabilities to virtually anyone across global organizations. With Acrobat 3D, design engineering, technical publishing and creative professionals in manufacturing industries such as automotive, aerospace and industrial machinery, as well as the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) market, can convert 3D models from a wide variety of major CAD formats and embed them into Adobe PDF files-regardless of whether the user has the native CAD application. Acrobat 3D is available in English, French and German language versions. The Japanese language version is expected to be available in February 2006. The product has an estimated street price of US$995. Registered users of Acrobat 7.0 Professional and Acrobat 6.0 Professional can upgrade to Acrobat 3D for estimated street prices of US$545 and US$699, respectively. The product is available for Microsoft Windows 2000 (with Service Pack 2), Windows XP Professional, Home and Tablet PC Editions, and IBM AIX 5.2, HP UX 11.0, SGI IRIX 6.5, and Sun Solaris 2.8 (for Acrobat 3D Capture utility). http://www.adobe.com/acrobat3d

Keynote Systems (Nasdaq:KEYN) announced a new release of its WebIntegrity service, which incorporates dynamic navigation permitting the WebIntegrity scanning technology to move into areas of a Web site not previously accessible. Using WebIntegrity 4.0, companies can ensure the quality of content for Web site pages, including forms, checkout pages and targeted secure areas, by finding broken links, bad content and privacy and compliance issues. WebIntegrity scales with large enterprise Web sites. WebIntegrity can spider along paths that require deliberate client interaction in order to move to the next page. This new scripted option in the scan, provides extensive dynamic navigation support, deeper penetration through form and search fields, paths generated with JavaScript and forms and submissions used for navigation. Available as a hosted service or as an appliance that resides inside the customer’s network, WebIntegrity allows enterprises to run on demand or scheduled tests. Keynote WebIntegrity 4.0 is available immediately. WebIntegrity pricing for a typical 100,000 page enterprise Web site starts at $29,995 for the hosted version or $39,995 for the appliance. http://www.keynote.com

IBM announced availability of new releases of its core IBM Workplace products, including Workplace Collaboration Services 2.6, Workplace Managed Client 2.6, Workplace Forms 2.6, and Workplace Designer 2.6. The 2.6 versions of these products include more than 50 new features and functions, including enhancements to cross-platform and open standards support. IBM Workplace Collaboration Services is a single, integrated product that includes a wide range of collaborative capabilities or “services,” such as e-mail, calendaring, team spaces, instant messaging, on-line learning, Web conferencing, document, and Web content management. The 2.6 release includes user interface enhancements across all components, an enhanced document search engine, support for ODF, iCal support for calendar interoperability with IBM Lotus Notes, and a new instant messaging gateway to Lotus Sametime, which will connect communities of users between IBM Lotus Sametime and Workplace Collaboration Services. Additions to Workplace Collaboration Services cross-platform support include clustering for iSeries, DB2 Enterprise Server Edition V8.2 as a data store, and IBM Directory Integrator V6.0. Release 2.6 also provides increased scalability and performance. IBM Workplace Forms is new electronic forms (e-forms) software that can help companies streamline and customize the way business data is captured, processed, and exchanged. IBM Workplace Collaboration Services 2.6, IBM Workplace Managed Client 2.6, IBM Workplace Designer 2.6 are available immediately. IBM Workplace Collaboration Services server sells for $90,000 per processor. IBM Workplace Managed Client is $69 per user. IBM Workplace Forms 2.6 will ship in the second quarter of 2006: The IBM Workplace Forms Server will be $25,000, IBM Workplace Forms Viewer will be $188, and IBM Workplace Forms Designer will be $649. http://www.ibm.com

Ontopia announced that Ontopoly, the new web-based tool for creating, populating and managing corporate ontologies, is now available as part of the Ontopia Knowledge Suite (OKS) 3.0 release and the OKS Samplers free download. Whether a corporation uses a taxonomy, a thesaurus or an ontology for its knowledge organization, Ontopoly can be used to define the underlying structure and populate the knowledge base. The knowledge base is then populated through a combination of automated processing and human intellectual effort. Using the Ontopia Knowledge Suite, integrators can aggregate content from databases, documents and web feeds. Additionaly, “tacit” knowledge and links to information resources (as required) can then be added manually using Ontopoly’s ontology-driven interface. Ontopoly is based on the ISO Topic Maps standard. It allows Ontopoly to support any kind of knowledge structure, ranging from simple indexes and taxonomies, through thesauri and glossaries, to full-blown ontologies. Ontologies built using Ontopoly can be used to organize portals, structure Content Management Systems, drive autoclassification of information, and underpin many other processes, thereby providing a foundation for knowledge management and publishing solutions based on semantic technology. Free versions of Ontopoly and Omnigator, Ontopia’s topic map browser, are now available for personal use via download as the OKS Samplers. The free download includes over 20 sample topic maps. Commercial licensing for corporate use is also available. http://www.ontopia.net

Alfresco Software Inc. announced that it has partnered with Inovox to deliver open source email archiving to address business requirements driven by numerous federal and state regulations including Sarbanes Oxley, SEC 17a 3-4, HIPPA, Basel II and NASD to name but a few. The solution, developed by Inovox, supports Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, Postfix, Sendmail and Kolab allowing email to be archived into Alfresco. The email monitoring operates as a SMTP proxy and uses Alfresco’s Web Service interface to store the emails and all of their attachments. Alfresco is able to manage these emails with full auditability and the option of transforming them into a different format for easy access or long-term readability. The emails and attachments can be automatically categorized, full text indexed with meta-data extracted to enable easy, rapid searching and access. This allows customers to reduce cost through open source and manage compliance, litigation discovery and productivity.

Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced the availability of the newest version of FAST ProPublish, a solution for gathering, processing and delivering professional reference material to online and offline users. Based on the FAST Enterprise Search Platform (FAST ESP), ProPublish 4.1 is designed specifically for premium content providers whose research-oriented users demand complex search and navigation capabilities. FAST ProPublish 4.1 provides publishers with both graphical and automated tools so they can quickly pull data from multiple sources, apply rules for enhancing that data, and deliver it via a Web-based interface. FAST ProPublish is designed to meet the needs of both commercial publishers offering subscription-based data access and information-intensive corporations tasked with delivery of internal premium or reference content to their users. http://www.fastsearch.com

PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), the Product Development Company announced a partnership with IHS, Inc (NYSE: IHS) to deliver electronic components content to users of PTC Windchill. Windchill is a content and process management solution that helps companies optimize their product development process. Electronics companies today face a difficult challenge to comply with new environmental regulations from the European Union (RoHS and WEEE), as well as emerging regulations from across the globe. The partnership between PTC and IHS will provide the foundation by which a comprehensive environmental regulatory compliance management solution will be offered to address these challenges. This solution provides tools that help companies to manage component compliance data, determine the compliance of a product structure or BOM against a selected regulation (e.g., RoHS), and manage the change process to bring a non-compliant product structure into compliance. http://www.ptc.com

Alfresco Software Inc. announced that has integrated the open source programming language, PHP, into its development environment. This enables PHP developers to create new content-centric applications and dynamic web pages that access Alfresco. PHP is an open source programming language. It is a simple scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded in HTML. This makes PHP an especially complementary language for the Alfresco ECM environment. Alfresco has used connectivity tools that use Web Services and a Service Oriented Architecture to hide much of the complexity for the PHP developer. This enables the full range Alfresco capabilities to be made available to PHP developers.