Voquette, Inc. and COMTEX News Network, Inc. announced a technology sales and marketing agreement that will enable COMTEX distributors to expand their current personalization of COMTEX products. The Voquette Content Enhancement Engine automatically incorporates additional horizontal market metadata such as competitors, industry, sector, private companies and executives into the feed. As a result, COMTEX distributors who license Voquette enhanced feeds can offer their customers a greater degree of personalization and contextual. www.voquette.com, www.comtexnews.net.
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IntraNet Solutions, Inc. announced the release of Outside In Version 7.1, an enhanced version of its Outside In developer technology for viewing, conversion and access of business content in more than 225 file formats on a wide range of platforms, including mobile and wireless devices. Outside In 7.1 includes support for a wide range of new and updated file formats, including Microsoft Office XP; Corel WordPerfect Office 2002; Lotus SmartSuite Millennium Edition 9.6; Sun StarOffice Write 5.2; Microsoft Visio 2002; Adobe Acrobat 5.0; Adobe FrameMaker MIF 6.0; and WAP WML specification 2.1. This expanded support enables viewing, conversion and access of these file formats without needing to install the native applications on servers, desktops or wireless devices. Outside In 7.1 has also added support for Solaris 8 and Red Hat Linux 7.0 platforms. Outside In 7.1 includes expanded conversion and viewing options for improved navigation in converted documents and greater fidelity in viewed documents. www.intranetsolutions.com/products/developer_conversion.html
Poet Software announced the release of Poet eSupplierLink 4.5 and eSupplierWeb 4.5. These two web-based products, part of Poet
Engage, Inc. announced that it would further reduce its workforce and would shift its emphasis to the growing market for content management software for multichannel marketing. As part of the shift, Engage also said it had entered into discussions with potential buyers for its media business. As part of the change, Engage also announced that it would discontinue its Engage Knowledge profiling service. Engage said it does not intend to sell the service’s database of anonymous profiles. Engage offers a broad range of software solutions to help marketers, publishers, and advertising agencies manage marketing content across traditional and new media channels. By using these solutions, Engage’s customers are able to deliver consistent messages across channels while streamlining production processes and increasing efficiencies. Among its software products are Content Server, Approval Server, PromoManager and AdManager. The company will provide additional details and financial guidance concerning the realigned company as part of its fourth quarter financial announcement in mid-September. www.engage.com
Documentum introduced Documentum eContent Services for Portals, the portal-specific deliverable of their recently-announced Documentum Web services initiative. Documentum eContent Services for Portals reduce the need to create new programming interfaces and integration code for enterprise portal implementation. Building on the Documentum 4i eBusiness Platform, these services employ Documentum eContent Portlets to create a way to expose content management functionality through an enterprise portal. Documentum has pre-packaged the most significant and common content management functions, such as content contribution, browsing, and workflow management. These services, called eContent Portlets, will be delivered as Java Server pages, Java classes, and XML files to be exposed through the portal interface. Documentum will offer a Portal Integration Kit to guide portal builders who will integrate Documentum eContent Portlets with portal deployments. Portal providers will leverage Documentum eContent Services for Portals. Among the first adopters are: ATG, BEA Systems, Bowstreet, Citrix, Corechange, DataChannel, Epicentric, Plumtree Software, SAP Portals, Inc., iPlanet, E-Commerce Solutions, a Sun Netscape Alliance and TIBCO. www.documentum.com/products/editions/portal/portlets.html
The Open eBook Forum has released an updated version of the Open eBook Publication Structure Specification. Entitled `Publication Structure Specification 1.0.1,’ the new standard for authoring reusable content for eBook devices and readers supercedes the 1.0 version of the OEB Specification. The OEB Publication Structure (OEBPS) is an XML-based specification for the content, structure, and presentation of electronic books. Developed and maintained by the Open eBook Forum, a group of over 85 organizations involved in electronic publishing, the standards body and trade association includes Gold Sponsorship from Microsoft Corporation, Adobe Systems and Intertrust Technologies. Version 1.0.1 of OEBPS, which is based on over a year of industry experience with 1.0, does not add additional features to the specification but only removes ambiguities and corrects errors. Version 2.0 of OEBPS, which will introduce new features and substantial enhancements — particularly in the areas of presentation, linking and navigation, internationalization, and metadata — is currently under development. The Publication Structure Working Group encourages all participants and interested parties to download copies of the OEBPS 1.0.1 specification from the Open eBook Forum web site. Multiple formats are available. www.openebook.org
divine and Open Market announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for divine’s acquisition of Open Market in a stock-for-stock merger. Open Market’s technology will provide an environment for deploying applications that address a range of information-rich e-business initiatives such as portals, marketing campaigns, B2B catalogs, and publications. Under the terms of the merger agreement, divine will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Open Market common and preferred stock in exchange for approximately 44,285,000 shares of divine Class A common stock. Based upon divine’s closing price on August 14, 2001, the transaction would have an aggregate value of approximately $59.3 million. Open Market stockholders are expected to receive between approximately 0.8230 and 0.8598 shares of divine Class A common stock in exchange for each share of Open Market common stock. The Board of Directors of each company has approved the transaction and recommended it to their respective stockholders. The transaction is expected to close during the fourth quarter of 2001. divine and Open Market also signed a reseller agreement that enables the divine sales force to immediately begin selling Open Market products. www.divine.com, www.openmarket.com
IntraNet Solutions, Inc. announced that it will change its name to Stellent, Inc., effective August 29, 2001. The company’s ticker symbol will change to Nasdaq: STEL. The name “Stellent” is derived from a combination of word parts: “Stell” comes from the word “stellar” meaning of the stars, and “ent” is derived from the words “excellent” and “intelligent.” “Stars” and “stellar” have several connotations such as intelligence, superiority and enlightenment. They are associated with navigation and discovery, conveying themes of leadership, cutting edge innovation and choosing the right path. With only two syllables, the name “Stellent” speaks very quickly, suggesting rapid deployment, which is representative of the company’s Xpedio Content Management system. IntraNet Solutions’ Information Exchange Division (IED), which is responsible for the company’s wireless, conversion and viewing technology, will become the Stellent Software Components Division (SCD) beginning August 29. IntraNet Solutions’ Web site address will also change to www.stellent.com, and the company will launch a new logo. www.intranetsolutions.com
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