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IDEV announced the launch of CMSWatch, www.cmswatch.com, a website designed to provide independent analysis on web content management software solutions and practices, as well as related industry developments. CMSWatch is designed to bring greater clarity to companies seeking web content management help. It offers a combination of content management news headlines, interviews with industry leaders, opinion pieces, hot topic trends and explanations, product information, and comparative analyses. The site also offers The CMS Report, a detailed primer on the process of planning, selecting, and implementing a web content management solution that includes a review of 16 software packages. A sample report chapter is available for free. The full report may be purchased online. www.idev.com

Software AG, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Software AG, announced the release of Tamino XML Server version 2.3. Tamino 2.3 features enhanced performance and optimized data storage functionality. Tamino facilitates the transmission, storage and retrieval of data – structured or unstructured. It is a native XML database that stores and processes XML data without having to convert it to other formats and store it in relational tables first. As a result, response times are shorter and the setup of the database and the administrative effort required is significantly lower than with other traditional databases. Tamino 2.3 currently runs on: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Sun Solaris, and OS/390. Additional platform support of Linux, AIX, and HP-UX will follow within the coming months. www.softwareagusa.com

ArsDigita announced the general availability of the ArsDigita Community System (ACS) version 4.6 Java. ACS 4.6 Java is a Java-based, J2EE-compliant application framework for developing sophisticated, content-intensive Web applications. The newest version of the open source ACS is comprised of ACS Core, which serves as a foundation for all ACS-backed Web applications, and an integrated application for content management. ACS 4.6 Java is available today for download at . ACS 4.6 Java represents a significant architectural advance from prior versions of the product, introducing a 3-tier Web-centric architecture. Built on J2EE, ACS is compliant with J2EE standards, and will run with J2EE-compliant application servers. ACS 4.6 Java cleanly separates presentation logic, application logic, and persistent storage to improve maintainability and flexibility. .

Microsoft Corp. announced the general availability of the enterprise, evaluation and developer editions of Microsoft Content Management Server 2001. Content Management Server 2001 is the latest addition to the Microsoft .NET Enterprise Server family. Content Management Server 2001 Enterprise Edition, the full-featured licensed version of Content Management Server 2001 is available for a suggested retail price of $39,901 (U.S.) per CPU. Content Management Server 2001 Evaluation Edition is full-featured 120-day enterprise version of Content Management Server 2001 available for download from www.microsoft.com/cmserver/evaluation/trial.htm. Content Management Server 2001 Developer Edition is available to MSDN subscribers at http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/resources/subdwnld.asp. The developer edition will ship with MSDN Universal in October 2001. All existing NCompass customers will receive a free upgrade to Microsoft Content Management Server 2001. www.microsoft.com/cmserver/

Artesia Technologies announced a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of TeamToolz. The agreement will allow the company to offer a marketing and brand management solution that includes workflow and collaboration features, brand resource management, budget tracking and digital distribution of marketing content – all integrated into a unified enterprise platform. The resulting benefits for Artesia’s customers include heightened brand equity, increased sales, significant cost savings and enhanced speed to market. The integration of the two technology platforms combines the ability to manage, edit, distribute and access via the web, all types of rich media utilized in today’s multi-channel marketing programs with extensive campaign development capabilities, including project routing and scheduling. Terms of the agreement have not been disclosed. The transaction is expected to close before the end of August. www.artesia.com

Chrystal Software announced the availability of Astoria version 3.6, along with improved customer support resources. The new version of the Astoria platform provides significant customer benefits in productivity and functionality in this free upgrade for customers with current maintenance agreements. The new customer support resources enable Chrystal customers to get the right information through the medium of their choice: self-service over the Internet, by email, or by phone. Astoria’s new version 3.6 adds a host of new enhancements, including new platform support of Microsoft Windows 2000 and Sun Microsystems’ Solaris 8, improvements in managing and scaling custom attributes, support of XML-styled linked graphics including the reuse and sharing of graphics for multiple documents. The installation and setup of the client bridges to authoring tools, including SoftQuad’s XMetaL, Arbortext’s Epic Editor, and Adobe’s FrameMaker+SGML, have been made easier. www.chrystal.com

Zope Corporation announced its name change in recognition of the broad acceptance of its Zope platform and services. Zope Corporation also announced the availability of Zope 2.4, which provides richer features to enable organizations to deploy and manage complex content management applications. The Zope family of solutions makes it easy to rapidly build high-performance, scalable, secure, content management systems so that even non-technical users can maintain them. This ease-of-use combined with its open source roots make the Zope family of content creation, distribution and publication solutions flexible and customizable. Zope offers for-fee products and services for complex, large-scale applications. In addition, there are over 20,000 developers contributing to Zope who can assist on smaller scale projects. Zope 2.4 new features include: support for Python 2.1, WebDAV, and automatic component update. Zope also provides a full range of solutions for corporations requiring implementation assistance and/or specialized applications. Zope 2.4 is open source and available at www.zope.com

Netegrity, Inc. announced its product strategy to provide a comprehensive platform for securing and managing Web services. Netegrity’s new product for securing Web services is code named TransactionMinder, and provides a centralized, policy based platform for securing Web service discovery and consumption, Web service publication, and delegated administration of Web services deployment. TransactionMinder will integrate XML security standards, such as SAML and XKMS, with Web service architectures, such as the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) and Microsoft.NET, to provide a secure environment in which to deploy these services. TransactionMinder is designed to work with SAML, UDDI, WSDL and messaging frameworks such as SOAP, ebXML and RosettaNet. Netegrity is introducing a new early access program for TransactionMinder. www.netegrity.com