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Stellent Inc. announced that it has joined the IBM PartnerWorld Portlet Provider Program. The program is designed to provide IBM Business Partners the ability to quickly develop portal applications, or “portlets,” for the IBM WebSphere Portal. These portlets are then available to WebSphere customers through IBM’s Portlet Catalog as well as through IBM Business Partner Web sites. www.stellent.com

Documentum announced three integration points between Documentum 4i eBusiness Platform and Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS) in addition to the existing integration between Documentum 4i and Oracle9i Database. These additional integrations include a JDBC-based Documentum eConnector providing a integration between the Documentum eContent Repository and Oracle9iAS; Documentum Web Development Kit content management application components running within Oracle9iAS container; and Documentum eContent Portlets available as portlets within the portal technology in Oracle9i Application Server. Joint customers who already run Documentum 4i on Oracle Database can use the Documentum 4i platform and Oracle9iAS to deliver dynamic and personalized enterprise content to Web sites, develop and rapidly deploy content application services with Oracle9iAS and expose content management capabilities through the corporate portal interface. www.documentum.com

Saqqara Systems Inc. announced the release of Saqqara CommerceSuite 4.0, a comprehensive and collaborative content authoring and publishing solution that allows suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and industry exchanges to leverage product content as a strategic asset for increasing revenue and decreasing costs. With CommerceSuite 4.0, administrators may define content management workflows to allow globally located product content managers to jointly participate in catalog authoring, maintenance and publishing by following their prescribed management processes for content updates and catalog publishing. A content controller enhances this management process with synchronized catalog content updates across multiple servers and content sources. Authoring specialists at multiple locations can now edit content and label with activation dates for an automatic update on one or more catalog servers. Updates can now occur at any time from any location. Saqqara CommerceSuite 4.0 employs SOAP and XML, allowing catalogs to be offered as ready-to-use Web services to dynamically link with enterprise applications across the Internet. Saqqara CommerceSuite 4.0 is available immediately. Special upgrade pricing and maintenance agreements are available to current Saqqara ProductServer customers. www.saqqara.com

FatWire Software announced that it will develop dynamic content management (dCM) portlets for IBM’s WebSphere Portal as a member of the IBM PartnerWorld Portlet Providers Program. FatWire’s dCM portlets provide a consistent and easy to use interface to allow thousands of users to simultaneously contribute content. FatWire’s Java solution works with all major databases including: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server and Sybase. www.fatwire.com

TopicalNet, Inc. has agreed to purchase substantially all of the assets of Collectively Sharper, Inc. of Boston, Mass. The deal combines TopicalNet’s ability to understand and classify electronic content with Collectively Sharper’s Content and Expertise Integration platform to create a product that combines all the latest facets of Content Management technology. The first product utilizing TopicalNet and Collectively Sharper technology is expected to ship in Q1 2002. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. www.TopicalNet.com

The World Wide Web Consortium has issued the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation, representing cross-industry agreement on an XML-based language that specifies how XML documents may be formatted. It works in concert with XSLT. XSLT 1.0, the XML language which performs transformations on XML data and documents already enjoys significant usage in both developer communities and in commercial products. XSL 1.0 builds on XSLT 1.0, and provides users with the ability to describe how XML data and documents are to be formatted. XSL 1.0 does this by defining “formatting objects,” such as footnotes, headers, columns, and other features common to paged media. XSL 1.0 makes it possible for professional printing capabilities and functions to perform with XML documents today. XSL 1.0 and XSLT make it possible for the needs of Web and print-based media formatting to be met. The Cascading Style Sheet language (CSS), both levels 1 and 2 has long been recognized as the style language of choice for HTML and XHTML documents. CSS may still be used for XML formatting, and in cases where structural transformations are not needed, suit the needs of Web designers. The W3C CSS and XSL Working Groups have cooperated to ensure that their results are complementary. www.w3.org

Webcom Limited announced that it has strengthened its content management offering through the acquisition of Compelis Corporation in order to deliver complete e-publishing solutions for its customers. Webcom now offers its customers a solution including content creation and conversion, storage, management, manufacturing and distribution of published materials for print and new media. Webcom’s solutions allow customers to take advantage of web-based custom publishing, print-on-demand and e-book distribution. With the ability to deliver content via new media channels – including the Internet and CD-ROM, Webcom is a single-source provider of integrated communications solutions. A specific advantage to Catalog publishers, Webcom’s Content Management includes the aggregation of industry databases. www.webcomlink.com

Merant announced that it has signed a reseller agreement with Macromedia, Inc. Under terms of the agreement, Merant will bundle Macromedia Dreamweaver 4 or Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 with Merant PVCS Content Manager 2.0. Through WebWebDAV support, FTP integration, and “drag-and-drop” access to more than 40 pre-built Content Manager components and objects within Dreamweaver, PVCS Content Manager 2.0 provides customers with a dynamic content management solution. PVCS Content Manger ensures tight integration with Dreamweaver through product extensions including pre-built components such as authentication, syndication, personalization and dynamic date and document contribution. The pre-built components enable Web sites to be up and running quickly. This integration means Web designers can remain in the Dreamweaver environment and check assets in and out directly. PVCS Content Manager 2.0 addresses both enterprise and departmental content management requirements with one product. www.merant.com