Mainline Information Systems Inc., an IBM solutions provider, along with Grey Zone announced a worldwide strategic alliance to deliver a Linux solution. This alliance combines the Grey Zone’s Extranet applications software with Mainline’s ability to design, sell, implement, and support complex computing environments. Grey Zone’s SecureZone 5 combines all the essential features required of Extranets, such as access control, content management, personalization, and presentation. This solution provides a foundation for corporate intranets and public web sites, and can be deployed across the full line of Linux-readied IBM eServers. www.greyzone.com, www.mainline.com
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Ancept, Inc. and The Fantastic Corporation announced a strategic alliance to deliver integrated solutions based on IBM Content Manager and the IBM Digital Media Factory. By integrating Ancept Media Server, a DAM solution designed to centrally manage vast collections of media, with Fantastic’s Content Delivery Network products companies have the ability to effectively and securely store, manage, protect and distribute digital video, audio, imagery and text-based information. The partnership exploits the IBM Content Manager infrastructure and is synchronous with the IBM strategy for delivering leading digital media creation, management and distribution solutions. www.Ancept.com, www.Fantastic.com, www-3.ibm.com/software/data/cm/
Vivisimo, Inc. added two new products to its software portfolio: the Content Integrator and Enterprise Publisher. These join Vivisimo’s Clustering Engine which automatically organizes search or database query results into meaningful hierarchical folders. The company’s Clustering Engine interfaces with any search engine or document database to transform long lists of search results into categorized information, on-the-fly, without pre-processing the source documents. The Vivisimo Content Integrator combines with the Clustering Engine to integrate search/database query results from multiple sources. The Vivisimo Enterprise Publisher, a stand-alone document clustering product, automatically clusters document collections into categories that are intelligently selected from the words and phrases contained within the documents themselves. It publishes the organized content in a PC folders-style interface.
Convera announced the availability of Visual RetrievalWare 5.0. Visual RetrievalWare 5.0 now features support for more than twenty of the most widely used image and video formats. New image formats supported include PCX, PNM, SGIRGB, TGA and XPM. TYS has been added to the list of supported video formats, which also includes AVI, FIT, MPEG2, PIT, QT and SMJ. Visual RetrievalWare 5.0 is now available on Darwin, FreeBSD and NetBSD platforms. Visual RetrievalWare can also run on Linux, Solaris and Windows. New APIs included in Visual RetrievalWare 5.0 are an Associative Memory API for memory management and Time Code conversion support for common frame representations such as microseconds, frames, NTSC and non-drop. System Performance Enhancements: New enhancements include MPEG decompression performance and image format support, added support for QuickTime 5 and an upgrade to Tcl/Tk 8.4a4. Visual RetrievalWare 5.0 features enhancements for automatic video clip indexing and fuzzy search. www.convera.com
Pro Text unveiled LAVA PT which extends Oracle 9iFS’s feature-rich abilities to manage documents beyond the current language borders. Integrated in the standard iFS web user interface, LAVA PT allows to create the needed language variants for any source document. LAVA PT offers support for every document format; even translating XML document fragments using Oracle iFS’s integration with ArborText’s Epic editor becomes uncomplicated and trouble-free. Language variants are sent then to a translator, a translation memory and/or machine translation via e-mail (or another standard internet protocol). Once translated and returned, the translated documents are checked in and stored into the Oracle iFS system. When the base or source language document is revised or updated, LAVA PT identifies the language variants that should be (re)translated and automatically initiates a new translation cycle for these. The web interface shows the status of each document variant within this translation process. LAVA PT is available now with prices starting from $20.000. www.protext.be, www.icmsgrp.com
Thunderstone Software announced the ability to index JavaScript hyperlinks and JavaScript dynamic content. The new capability is bundled with Thunderstone’s Texis search software and is available immediately. Sites have grown increasingly dependent on JavaScript-enabled browsers. But since most search engines cannot “see” JavaScript links, search-engine users are missing valuable content — often without knowing it. Texis also provides a broad range of other data discovery and indexing techniques. That includes indexing ‘deep’ information such as database content and newswire feeds, or even results from other search engines, all of which may be continually changing. Thunderstone is offering a free trial of the JavaScript link crawler through Oct. 30. The feature is included with Thunderstone’s Webinator web-site indexing product. Anyone who administers a web site may download a full working copy via the link on Thunderstone’s home page, at www.thunderstone.com
Documentum announced the Documentum Collaboration Edition, which includes two new product offerings, Documentum Team Center and Documentum Collaboration Services. The Collaboration Edition also includes Documentum’s Content Exchange Services, which include aggregation, distribution and cross-enterprise workflow services, to enable collaboration across businesses. Through Documentum’s integration of collaboration and content management technologies, users can initiate collaborative activities at any point during the content management lifecycle or add powerful content management capabilities to their collaborative initiatives. Project teams can work together in a common project area, jointly creating deliverables, addressing issues and managing schedules and resources. The deliverables, team output and related collaborative content are captured and securely stored, and can be later referenced and integrated with other enterprise content and processes. Documentum will embed collaborative features into the Documentum platform to make them available as Collaboration Services. Collaborative Services is expected to ship early next year. www.documentum.com
The Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) project, whose specification provides one of the building blocks for Web services applications and services, and OASIS have announced that OASIS will serve as the steward for the UDDI project and activities and will continue development of the UDDI technical work. OASIS will manage the future development of the UDDI specification and related activities. Existing business registries will continue to be made available by registry operators. Under OASIS, the UDDI specification will continue to advance as a standard, and interested companies can continue to incorporate the specification into future business and software plans. Along with the transition, UDDI.org also announced today the release of the version 3 specification. The new specification will be the basis for future development under OASIS. For more information, see the UDDI Version 3.0 Features List at http://uddi.org/pubs/uddi_v3_features.htm, www.oasis-open.org
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