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Documentum announced the immediate availability of Content Services for EMC Centera, an archiving solution based on the completed integration between the Documentum ECM platform and the EMC Centera Content Addressed Storage (CAS) solution. EMC Centera is an online storage system that ensures the authenticity and immutability of enterprise content. Content Services for EMC Centera provides a complete, optimized solution for archiving large volumes of content across an entire enterprise, by linking Documentum 5 (or 4i) with EMC Centera. EMC Centera is an online storage architecture specifically designed to address the unique storage requirements of fixed content, such as photos, videos, audio, graphics and web content. Content Services for EMC Centera enables customers to automate their business policies to securely deposit, archive and access any type of content asset in EMC Centera. www.emc.com, www.documentum.com

eXcelon Corporation announced the availability of XIS Lite, a fully functional version of the company’s native XML database management system, eXtensible Information Server (XIS). XIS Lite is designed to enable customers with less extensive data requirements to achieve dynamic, extensible and reliable data management at a lower cost of ownership. eXcelon developed XIS Lite for companies that are using XML business documents to build the foundation for web services applications and standards-based integration networks where resilience to change is required. XIS Lite provides additional ROI to developers and architects who deploy applications on XIS Lite by providing them with the ability to re-deploy those applications on full-scale XIS without requiring modifications to application-level code. XIS Lite is available immediately starting at $995 per developer seat. www.exln.com

The World Wide Web Consortium announced the release of the XForms 1.0 Candidate Recommendation. XForms 1.0 is the foundation for next-generation Web-based forms, by combining the ability to separate purpose, presentation, and results with the XML. Advancement of this document to Candidate Recommendation is a statement that the specification is stable. The W3C XForms Working Group invites the Web development community at large to implement the specification and demonstrate interoperability. In contrast to HTML Forms, with functional and presentation markup intertwined, XForms lets forms authors distinguish the descriptions of the purpose of the form; the presentation of the form, and how the results (the instance data) are written in XML. By splitting traditional HTML forms into three parts — XForms model, instance data, and the XForms user interface — it cleanly separates presentation from content. Practically speaking, XForms technologies make it possible to use forms from a PDA, a cell phone, screen reader or conventional desktop machine – without loss of functionality for the end user. XForms, while initially designed to be integrated into XHTML, may be adopted by any suitable markup language, such as Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). www.w3.org

Pindar Systems announced the launch of Agility 2, adding new enterprise platform and application support, Java and Web ease-of-use features, and workflow/functionality enhancements to its multi-channel content management platform. New workflow enhancements include event-triggering on workflow state changes, auto-advance of ‘child’ states, defined ‘next states’, and extended auto-transition rules. New features include check-in and check-out for documents and digital media assets, new capabilities for automating the creation of complex tables, and automated Enterprise Java Beans functionality. Agility supports Adobe InDesign 2.0 and QuarkXpress. IBM’s WebSphere and BEA’s WebLogic application servers are supported as well as IBM’s DB2, Oracle 9i and MS SQL Server 2000. Agility 2.0 now runs on the UNIX AIX/Solaris platforms in addition to Microsoft Windows 2000. Agility 2’s object-based EDGE data management technology allows users to link objects, the basic building blocks of the data structure, into an infinite variety of taxonomies. Each object can include an unlimited number of attributes. Agility 2 will be available commercially in early January 2003. www.pindarsystems.com

Macromedia, Inc. announced Macromedia ‘Contribute’, a desktop application that enables anyone to update, add, and publish web content to existing websites without requiring technical skills beyond basic word processing. Contribute works with any HTML website, including those coded by hand or created with Macromedia Dreamweaver’ MX or Microsoft FrontPage. Macromedia Contribute allows web developers to delegate web content maintenance while protecting the site design, code, and functionality. Contribute rolls out in minutes using encrypted connection keys and permission groups. Contribute allows users to update web content in three steps: Users browse to the web page they want to update, edit the page, and publish their updated page to the live site. Contribute also features integration with Microsoft Word and Excel. Contribute will be available for Windows in December with introductory pricing at $99. Education, government, and corporate volume licensing will be available. The product will initially ship in English, with French, German, and Japanese versions expected to be available in 2003. Contribute will be available for Mac OS X users in 2003. www.macromedia.com/go/contribute/

Open Text Corporation announced it will extend the capabilities of its content integration platform, Livelink Doorways, to eRoom repositories and applications. The solution will give eRoom customers the ability to utilize eRoom and Livelink together, and allow users to access content and features in eRoom from Livelink. By supporting eRoom with Livelink Doorways, Livelink acts as a central point for enterprise content management and collaboration, while providing access to the data and elements residing in eRoom. Along with the new Doorways solution for eRoom, Open Text will also provide a set of conversion tools through its professional services organization to allow eRoom users to upgrade to Livelink and its collaborative capabilities. Livelink Doorways offers access to Documentum 4i and a variety of file systems, including Microsoft Windows, UNIX NFS and Oracle iFS. Open Text also plans to add connectors for Hummingbird DM and DOCS Open, Lotus Notes and Domino, and other repositories, as well as provide a means for partners and customers to develop connectors to their own unique repositories. www.opentext.com/livelink