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
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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
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
Basis Technology and Software AG announced that Basis Technology’s Rosette Language Analyzers for Japanese, Chinese and Korean have been integrated into Software AG’s Tamino XML server to give Tamino customers full-text search capabilities for Asian languages. Basis Technology’s Rosette Language Analyzers are portable, high-performance linguistic engines for segmenting and normalizing Japanese, Chinese and Korean text. The products rely on comprehensive dictionaries and linguistic algorithms, and are for applications that require searching and analysis of large volumes of text. www.softwareagusa.com, www.basistech.com
Octave Software, Inc. announced a partnership with Surebridge, Inc. to deliver content management capabilities to high growth companies. Under the partnership, Surebridge will provide rapid application deployment, secure hosting, application management, and technical support for WebOctave, Octave Software’s product. Surebridge will also become a certified Value-Added Reseller of WebOctave. www.surebridge.com, www.octavesoftware.com
Software AG and Altova, Inc. announced the availability of the XML Spy 4 Suite and Tamino integrated product bundle. This offering includes Altova’s XML Spy 4 Suite and Software AG’s Tamino XML Server (limited version). The suite supports visual design and editing of XML documents, XML schema, and XSLT stylesheets. The XML Spy 4 Suite is comprised of the XML Spy 4 Integrated Development Environment (IDE), the XML Spy 4 XSLT Designer and the XML Spy 4 Document Editor. The XML Spy 4 Suite and Tamino XML Server (limited version) product bundle runs on Windows. The version of Tamino Server which is included in the bundle, is for development purposes only (however can be upgraded at any time) and is limited by database capacity, which can range from 50MB to 1000MB, depending on the number of XML Spy 4 Suite installed user licenses purchased. Bundle pricing begins at $598 US for a single license. The Software AG Tamino XML Server and XML Spy 4 Suite product bundle is available immediately from the XML Spy online shop. www.xmlspy.com/order, www.altova.com, www.softwareagusa.com
FileNET Corporation announced a number of strategic alliances with new ValueNET partners including industry specialist organizations Cardinal Solutions Group, Impression Technology, Infinity Software Development, KnowledgeLake, Rapid Application Developers and Tuscan Technologies. FileNET’s ValueNET partner network is comprised of resellers, system integrators, and application developers of ECM solutions. ValueNET partners provide customers with integration support and advanced ECM solutions specifically targeted to meet unique customer needs. www.filenet.com
Vignette Corp. announced that it has joined the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), a cross-industry community whose mission is to promote Web services interoperability across platforms, applications and programming languages. The WS-I community includes software vendors, enterprise customers, technology developers and many others with a common interest in creating interoperable Web services. Initially, Vignette plans to join the WSBasic Profile working group, which is focused on providing guidance for using existing XML-based standards such as SOAP, WSDL and UDDI as a foundation for Web services. Vignette’s Web services and XML adapter libraries are immediately available and are included with Vignette V6 software licenses in the Vignette V6 Content Suite. Existing customers can download the adapter libraries via Vignette Express at global.vignette.com
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