Finjan Software announced that it has acquired the assets and intellectual property of Alchemedia Technologies. Alchemedia’s complementary product offerings will provide customers with enhanced functionality to meet their content security needs. Alchemedia is a provider of Enterprise Digital Rights Management (EDRM) software to the automotive, energy, pharmaceutical, aerospace, financial services and government markets. Customers will have greater proactive security control over their mission critical content. Finjan purchased all of Alchemedia’s intellectual property and assets, including operating assets, property and customers. The core asset of the acquisition was Alchemedia’s product, Mirage Enterprise 3.1, which enables users to view and collaborate on documents while the data included in those documents is shielded from all avenues of digital redistribution. www.finjan.com
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iManage, Inc. announced its new OEM program that enables independent software vendors (ISVs) and application service providers (ASPs) to quickly bring to market tightly integrated, private-labeled applications from iManage, including document management, collaboration, knowledge management and portals. The program targets ISVs and ASPs offering new content-rich applications such as eLearning, contract management, supplier relationship management (SRM) and product lifecycle management (PLM). Under the OEM program, partners can quickly add scalable and secure collaborative content management features including document version control, event notification, foldering, check-in/check-out, audit trails, integration with desktop applications and search and retrieval. iManage Worksite MP is an enterprise class, multi-platform, J2EE compliant Java-based solution, based on standards such as XML/XSL. WorkSite MP operates across Windows NT, Linux and Solaris platforms. www.imanage.com
Macromedia, Inc. announced the immediate availability of Macromedia JRun 4 for Mac OS X. Macromedia JRun 4 takes advantage of Mac OS X to deliver a fast and reliable server platform for J2EE applications. JRun 4 simplifies and speeds Java application delivery with a focus on affordability, developer productivity, and easy management and administration. In addition, Macromedia announced that the developer edition of Macromedia ColdFusion MX for J2EE Application Servers now supports Mac OS X. ColdFusion MX for J2EE Application Servers adds ColdFusion scripting capabilities to J2EE application servers (from BEA, IBM, and Sun) including JRun 4 for Mac OS X. New Mac OS X support for the developer edition enables Macromedia Studio MX developers to both create and test ColdFusion MX applications on the Mac OS X platform. Macromedia JRun 4 for Mac OS X is priced at $899 per processor. The free developer editions of JRun 4 for Mac OS X and Macromedia ColdFusion MX for JRun are available for immediate download. www.macromedia.com
Atomz announced that a Web site content editor is now available for the Macintosh platform, allowing Macintosh users to contribute content to their company Web sites using Atomz Publish. Atomz said the WYSIWYG Rich Text Editing Interface is now a standard option for all Atomz Publish customers. With the addition of Macintosh support, Atomz Publish customers can now support end users who use either Macintosh, Windows, or both. For example, content authors could use their Macintosh at home and then their Windows PC at the office to contribute or edit content. Customers can use: the Macintosh WYSIWYG Rich Text Editing Interface designed for Internet Explorer 5.2 and higher on Mac OS X v10.2; a Windows WYSIWYG Rich Text Editing Interface; a free-form HTML editing interface; and a text-Only content contribution field. www.atomz.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced that it is recruiting value-added resellers (VARs) to offer their expertise in selling and servicing content management solutions to a range of new markets throughout North America. With this new channel launch, Interwoven is expanding its partner program to include VARs that will reach mid-market organizations, enterprise departments and specific vertical industry customers requiring affordable content applications and solutions for their Internet-based requirements. www.interwoven.com
RealObjects released their latest WYSIWYG Java applet editor, edit-on Pro 3.0. edit-on Pro 3.0 offers an improved spectrum of on-line editing functions, to make the process of updating professional web material more dynamic. The new edit-on Pro 3.0 offers the following feature enhancements: Support of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Creation and editing of style sheets, API for import/export of styles and style sheets, Support for read-only elements and read-only areas, editing of template-based documents, Custom XML tags, Native XHTML data format, filtering of imported or pasted HTML-Code via TIDY from W3C (on client or server), Support of ALIGN attribute, e.g. text will flow around images, Redo/Undo and Search/Replace functions, Copy/Paste of rich text format from Microsoft Word, Excel (tables) and IE – only when using the SUN JRE 1.4.1 on Windows platform. This feature can be enabled/disabled using a parameter, LiveConnect emulation for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X, and more. edit-on Pro ActiveX add-on available as an option, i.e. edit-on Pro 3.0 functionality based on Microsoft’s IE DHTML editing control. The ActiveX based editor will have the same look-and-feel and API as the edit-on Pro 3.0 applet. The add-on will be officially released in February 2003. www.realobjects.de
Mondosoft announced that the latest release of its site search and reporting solution, MondoSearch 5.0, now supports Microsoft’s .NET technology. MondoSearch 5.0 enables quick and easy access to relevant data across all Web environments using the latest .NET technology for sophisticated Web managers and users. In addition to support for .NET, MondoSearch 5.0 moves beyond traditional enterprise search by providing a suite of complementary tools to manage the content lifecycle including collection and analysis; enhancement and improvement; production and management and content delivery. BehaviorTracking is a complete reporting and analysis tool that provides insights into the search activity and user behavior on a web site. BehaviorTracking collects information about users’ search queries, product requests, IP numbers and domain names, about their search success, chosen links and more. The InformationManager provides a set of tools that make it easy for site owners to improve content, adjust relevancy and customize data for greater search success and site usability. www.mondosoft.com
Nstein Technologies Inc. and Gale announced an agreement to provide Gale’s subject taxonomy through Nstein’s automated indexing software. This agreement will enhance content search and retrieval services and extend market reach for both companies in many domains, including: business/financial services, law, medicine and health, technology, and social sciences. Gale’s 70,000 node subject taxonomy will be pre-packaged within Nstein’s Intelligent Categorizer and Nfinder automated indexing and search tools. This will enable Gale, Nstein, and their partners to license and deploy a hybrid product to enterprises around the globe. www.gale.com, www.thomson.com, www.nstein.com
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