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Whitehill Technologies, Inc. and Nimble Technology have entered into a reselling partnership for Nimble Technology to offer customers the Whitehill Composer. Nimble Technology will offer users of the Nimble Integration Suite – an XML-based enterprise data integration platform used to power Web services and applications – the Whitehill Composer. Whitehill Composer is an easy-to-use XSL editor engineered to generate WYSIWYG XSL for XML-to-HTML transformation. Users can drag and drop XML data elements from a menu type environment directly into a browser and have the XSL automatically created for both the browser style and the data element. www.nimble.com, www.whitehilltech.com

RightsLine, Inc. and Artesia Technologies announced they have signed a Global Technology Partnership Agreement to offer integrated, bundled solutions of their respective software products as well as collaborating on co-marketing and sales activities. The partnership will initially focus in North America with the potential to spread to other global geographies. The development of the integrated offering will provide content owners with a single platform for managing both their digital assets and the rights and permissions associated with them. Artesia

Stellent, Inc. announced it has acquired the assets of privately held Kinecta Corp, adding content integration, syndication, and distribution capabilities to their content management solution. Combined with the Stellent Content Management technology, these new capabilities will enable Stellent’s customers to aggregate content from multiple repositories, manage it in the Stellent environment and distribute it to any audience. Additionally, the technology will allow Stellent customers to easily deploy content from staging environments to production environments and roll back to earlier versions of Web sites. The Kinecta technology is built on Java, J2EE, XML and Information Content and Exchange (ICE). Stellent will continue to market the existing Kinecta product line while integrating the technology into the Stellent Content Management system. The initial product integration will be released in the quarter ending June 30, 2002. As part of the acquisition, Stellent will hire Kinecta’s core development team and retain Kinecta’s current office located in San Francisco, Calif. www.stellent.com, www.kinecta.com

FileNET Corp. announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the core assets of privately held eGrail Inc. The purchase of eGrail is an all cash transaction valued at approximately $10 million. Effective immediately, the eGrail product line will be made available and supported through FileNET. eGrail’s Web Content Management system offers enterprise scalable capabilities that are easy-to-use, empowering authors across the enterprise to contribute to and manage Web site content dynamically. eGrail serves customers in numerous industries including communications, insurance, government, medical and publishing. www.filenet.com, www.egrail.com

SealedMedia announced the latest release of its document security software. The new technology can seal Word, Excel and PowerPoint in addition to the standard media formats already supported: HTML, PDF, JPEG, GIF, MP3 and QuickTime. One of the key features of the SealedMedia software is that support for all these formats only requires the installation of a single, small browser plug-in on end user’s computers. SealedMedia’s architecture enables organizations to revoke end user access rights to sealed content at any time, regardless of where the sealed content is stored (it could be in a personal email inbox) and regardless of whether the end user was previously authorized to access it. This is useful, for example, when an employee leaves a company and is no longer authorized to access certain confidential or proprietary information. www.sealedmedia.com

OASIS announced its members have formed the OASIS Rights Language Technical Committee to advance a common XML rights language standard for the DRM marketplace. Their work will provide a universal method for specifying and managing rights associated with all kinds of resources including digital content and web services. The OASIS specification will support a wide variety of
business models, expressing both simple and complex rights, and will promote interoperability between systems regardless of platform, media type or format. ContentGuard intends to submit its eXtensible rights Markup Language (XrML) to the 0ASIS Committee as a starting point for this work. XrML, recently selected as the base architecture for the MPEG-21 Rights Expression Language, can be used in content-centric as well as service-based business models. Members of the OASIS Rights Language Technical Committee include ContentGuard, Hewlett-Packard Company, Microsoft, Reuters, VeriSign Inc., and other OASIS members. Participation remains open to all organizations and individuals interested in advancing a common rights language. www.oasis-open.org/join

Oracle Corp. announced that Oracle9iAS enables full interoperability and enhanced performance between Adobe GoLive 6.0, a Web authoring tool, and Adobe AlterCast, a dynamic imaging server. By leveraging Oracle9iAS, Adobe GoLive and Adobe AlterCast software quickly and easily interoperate, enabling real-time development and accelerated delivery of content. Together, the three products allow Web designers and publishers to integrate and manage visually rich content with the dynamically generated JavaServer Pages (JSP) created by Java developers. In turn, Java developers can collaborate with Web designers and publishers to programmatically reformat and update visually rich images. Oracle9i Application Server supports J2EE 1.3, Web Services, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, RosettaNet 1.1/2.0, ebXML, WebDAV, LDAP v3, SSL v3, and XML.
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