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Mambo has released Mambo Version 4.5.2., a significant update to its open source point-and-click website publishing software. This is the first maintenance release on the 4.5.x series and it addresses many usability enhancements, sports many library updates and the addition of the patTemplate templating system. Mambo is released under General Public Licence courtesy of Miro International PTY. Mambo requires a Unix, Windows 2000 or XP server, running Apache 1.3 or above, MySQL 3.23.55 or above, PHP 4.2.1 or above. Users should be browsing the net with Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher, Mozilla 1.7 or higher or FireFox 0.9.3 or higher (Firefox is best supported for Macintosh). You can read more about Mambo and download the latest version of Mambo at www.mamboforge.net, www.miro.com.au.

telerik announced the launch of telerik Sitefinity – a Web Content Management System for ASP.NET that introduces the notion of “100% WYSIWYG” site construction. Featuring telerik r.a.d.controls, the application establishes a environment that enables non-technical business users to build sites, contribute content, and perform workflow tasks in a visual manner. Sitefinity, however, is built with the developer in mind. Its modular architecture and a fully-exposed API enables developers to modify the provided out-of-the-box functionality, reuse existing code from non-CMS driven sites, and add new modules in the form of standard ASP.NET controls. The cornerstone of the environment is a modified version of the r.a.d.designer control, which is responsible for the page layout and content visualization. Layout templates can be created and managed directly from the browser, which eliminates the need for a desktop IDE and file transfer. There are no preview buttons the user workspace is the actual web-site, so that content authoring can be made in-context and on-the-fly. All modifications pass through the approval and publishing stages of the workflow. Sitefinity is offered with a 30-day free trial and 5 commercial licenses, depending on the number of site administrators and the supported database. A server license with unlimited users and unlimited implementations is also available. www.sitefinity.com

Syntext, Inc. announced the second version of its Serna WYSIWYG XML Editor. Serna’s WYSIWYG XML editor incorporates on-the-fly XSL-driven rendering technology that allows users to work with XML documents close to their “print appearance.” The new functionality includes very large document support, graphical CALS table support, on-the-fly document profiling with switchable XSLT parameter sets, advanced XML-aware Find & Replace, instant setup of enterprise-specific configuration settings, C++ API, and many other features. The PDF Publishing Package for Serna allows authors to generate high-quality PDF documents right from Serna with just a single button click. This package utilizes the Antenna House XSL Formatter. The key features of Syntext Serna include: out-of-the-box support of XML standards such as DocBook, DITA, TEI, XHTML, and NITF; on-the-fly XSL rendering and document validation (based on XML Schema); support for XML catalogs; XSL-FO and CALS table support; multilingual spell checking; and availability for Microsoft Windows (2000, XP), Mac OS X, and Linux. www.syntext.com

MultiCorpora announced toay the release of version 3.7 of MultiTrans, their software based Enterprise Language Management solution. Among other new capabilities, MultiTrans 3.7 delivers a scalable multilingual and multidirectional text repository, a flexible software-based license manager, enhanced project analysis, and an automated text repository update manager. The new multilingual, multidirectional Global Text Repository allows an organization to manage large volumes of content that has been translated into many languages in a single repository. A software-based license manager enables MultiTrans software licenses to be securely activated and transferred between computers with a simple activation code. The new license manager significantly streamlines the deployment and management of licenses for nomadic workers and across distributed workgroups. Enhanced project analysis capabilities provide comprehensive data to support optimal project workflow decisions. Also, automated pre-processing of distributable Project Reference Packages enables external, off-line users to leverage common language assets, improving productivity, consistency and accuracy. The new text repository update manager automatically updates the Global Text Repository with newly completed multilingual content on an ongoing basis. www.multicorpora.com

Snowbound Software introduced several enhanced options for its RasterMaster Imaging SDK to help streamline content aggregation processes. By enabling content from Microsoft Word, AFP, and PCL files to be batch extracted developers can create content aggregation tools for asset and content management applications. After the text and formatting data is extracted from Microsoft Word, AFP, or PCL files, the data streams can be imported directly into a variety of databases. The content can then be repurposed for publishing, archiving, or searching. The options are available for the Windows platform including Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, and Server 2003, and will soon be available for the Java Platform. www.snowbound.com

Liquid Machines, Inc. announced the Beta release of Liquid Machines Document Control 5.0 for Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) for Windows Server 2003. Liquid Machines Document Control v5.0 extends RMS policy enforcement to desktop and enterprise applications including Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Visio. Additionally, Liquid Machines Document Control 5.0 will allow customers to make optimal use of existing Microsoft investments and use Microsoft Office 2000 and Office XP to view and modify RMS-protected documents created in Office 2003. Liquid Machines Document Control 5.0 for RMS provides users with persistent protection of electronic information throughout the collaborative business process from the moment of creation through distribution, editing, storage, and subsequent destruction and disposal. User actions, such as distilling a rights-protected document to Adobe Acrobat, maintain the RMS policy of the original document on the derived file. In conjunction with the beta availability of Liquid Machines Document Control 5.0 for RMS, Liquid Machines also announced support for RMS Service Pack 1 (SP1). RMS SP1 will enable integration with 3rd party server-based applications. www.liquidmachines.com

IRISCO, a specialist in extraction and processing of PDM metadata, announced the immediate availability of its Elmo Search 2005 software. Elmo Search is an enterprise search product designed to meet the distinct needs of CAD Managers, R&D Managers, IT managers, end-users and senior managers. Elmo Search enables searching within AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Word, Excel, PDF files, emails, and many more document types. It also allows the creation of separate groups of documents, or “collections”, each targeted at specific groups of interests within the enterprise, while complying with existing file security permissions. Elmo Search also constantly monitors document changes in a document collection, automatically indexing new and updated documents on-the-fly within seconds. Easy to use, deploy and manage, it can be installed in “less than 10 minutes”. This software solution ships in two languages (English and French), and is available to qualifying organizations as a free, fully functional, permanent 5,000-document license for download directly from the Elmo Website. The free license can be upgraded to accommodate much larger numbers of documents, at a cost that can be as low as 5 cents per document. Elmo Search 2005 not only addresses the needs of Autodesk users, but also those of all their colleagues, particularly those who share data with them throughout the enterprise. elmo.irisco.com

Topologi announced the availability of a new product line of lightweight, Windows-based tools for processing XML data. The initial products to be released are called Judges, designed to perform a range of validation and data checking, and Detectives, designed to query and analyze XML documents and schemas. These are the first of several applications to be released in the near future. XML Judge lets you validate one or more files using XML Schemas, DTD, RELAX NG and Schematron. Generate usage schemas from a document set to check that new files do not contain valid but previously unused markup. XML Detective reports all the elements, attributes and namespaces: their parents, children, positions, XPaths and in which files these objects do, or do not occur. Topologi Complexity Detective with DTD Trimmer reports the Document Complexity Metric for XML documents, and includes a DTD trimmer that reduces a DTD to a minimal valid structure based on sampling document instances. Topologi Word Detective is a point and click XML indexing tool that reports on all the words found in elements or attributes in individual documents or across entire collections. Topologi Graphics Judge validates JPEG and TIFF files. This utility allows validation of JPEG files against the ISO standard. Good for ensuring that images and image metadata conform to format specifications. The initial products are all priced at US$29. www.topologi.com