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IT FACTORY announced that Documentaal will integrate its BowTie software with IT FACTORY’s ITF Business Suite. BowTie will enable ITF Business Suite users to achieve greater levels of productivity in mixed Lotus Notes-Microsoft environments, and allow Notes applications designers to make greater use of Lotus Notes/Domino as an enterprise application platform. Specifically, BowTie capabilities such as the ability to automatically attach and detach Microsoft Office documents in Lotus Notes and launch the desired Microsoft Office application for document manipulation and editing will be integrated into ITF Business Suite modules, including ITF Sales Force Automation, Human Resources, and Office Automation. BowTie works with any combination of Microsoft Office 97 and 2000, Lotus Notes R4.5, R4.6 and R5 on Windows 95, 98 and NT platforms. Support for BowTie within the ITF Business Suite will be available in February 2000. Pricing for BowTie support within the ITF Business Suite has not been set. www.itfactory.com, www.documentaal.nl

ScanSoft, Inc. and Caere Corp. jointly announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement whereby ScanSoft will acquire Caere in a transaction valued at more than $140 million. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of April, subject to the approval of the stockholders of each company. Under the terms of the definitive merger agreement, which was unanimously approved by the Boards of both companies, the holders of Caere common stock will receive $4 in cash and $7.75 in ScanSoft common stock. The number of ScanSoft shares received by each Caere shareholder will be deter

edocs announced XMLDirect. XMLDirect enables the rapid deployment of applications that transform legacy bill, statement, trade confirmation and other transactional document data directly into XML without the need to write programming code in languages such as C++, Java, or Perl. XMLDirect builds on edocs’ BillDirect platform, which is a complete, off-the-shelf software solution that transforms transactional content into personalized, interactive communications for enabling customer care and marketing via the Internet. With XMLDirect, companies can quickly and easily transform transactional document data into highly structured XML formats, while simultaneously generating XSL format stylesheets. XML format stylesheets can contain business rules that enable XML/XSL -ready applications to intelligently process the XML format information. This simplifies the process of using XML format data within a variety of XML-ready applications, including secure content distribution systems, Internet billing applications, data mining and customer intelligence systems. www.edocs.com

Rogue Wave Software announced the release of Nouveau 2.0. Nouveau supports Windows DNA 2000 and SOAP to give developers the ability to build applications using mixed CORBA, COM, Java, RPC and XML technology, and to access and distribute CORBA services via the Internet. Rogue Wave’s Nouveau 2.0 is available immediately on Microsoft Windows NT and available soon with support for Linux, Sun Solaris, and other popular UNIX platforms, through Rogue Wave Software and its sales channel. Pricing for Nouveau starts at $3600 plus deployment. www.roguewave.com

ESPS, Inc. announced a new addition to its technology line-up, code-named “Spyglass.” Spyglass is the Company’s next generation of content assembly and publishing technology. It allows users to quickly and easily assemble, publish and disseminate documents up to thousands of pages from any input (over 130 file formats supported) to paper, portals, the Web and e-mail. ESPS’ Spyglass technology is fully scalable, enabling its use in a workgroup environment, departmentally or at an enterprise level. CoreDossier will fully support published data from Spyglass – allowing organizations to design their own unique publishing architecture. In addition, Spyglass publications can be posted to CorePortal – ESPS’ publication portal. Spyglass and CorePortal automate the maintenance and availability of information to the Web, empowering individual productivity throughout the enterprise. Spyglass supports all major document management systems, including DOCUMENTUM, FileNET, PC Docs, Lotus Notes/Domino and Open Text. In addition, other document management systems can be easily integrated through the Spyglass API. www.esps.com

NeoMedia Technologies announced the availability of PaperClick ToGo technology. The PaperClick service has been ported to Wireless Markup Language (WML) and is immediately available as PaperClick ToGo for cell phones and other WAP devices that use WML 1.1 and/or Hand held Device Markup Language (HDML) 3.0 compliant micro-browsers. The use of numeric PaperClick codes makes navigating the web easy for small handheld devices with limited keypads. By converting any URL address, regardless of its length, into a short phone number-like PaperClick code, cell phones and PDAs can be used to conveniently surf the World Wide Web as more and more WML content becomes available. www.neom.com

Autodesk, Inc. announced that it has developed the initial specifications of LandXML, an XML application for land development professionals, including surveyors, civil engineers and land developers. LandXML is a common, open data format, or schema, that describes industry-specific data such as points, parcels, and alignments. Land development professionals worldwide can use LandXML to make the data they create more readily accessible and available to anyone involved with a project. With LandXML, project data is independent of the authoring software, thus overcoming the interoperability problems that have plagued the land development industry. Not only does LandXML provide interoperability between different application software, but also between varying versions of software. As a result, data can be archived and accessed more readily on future projects. Additionally, other web-based tools can be used to view, edit, and report LandXML data. XSL style sheets can be easily created and applied to LandXML data and then run from a project web page. Examples include XSL style sheets that format raw point data into point tables, or format data to match an organization’s internal standards, such as legal descriptions for parcel reports. Autodesk developed the initial specifications of LandXML in close collaboration with several key industry players, who will now serve as the basis for an advisory group to the company as it continues developing the specifications. This group includes Dave Weisberg, publisher and editor of A-E-C Automation Newsletter; software developers Intergraph Civil Engineering, Infrasoft, and Haestad Methods; Nebraska and Florida Departments of Transportation; and consulting organizations including Clough, Harbour & Associates LLP, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc., and Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc. www.LandXML.org, www.autodesk.com

IntraNet Solutions, Inc. announced that it would support the Red Hat Linux operating system and ApacheWebserver. IntraNet Solutions’ Xpedio Content Management products for the Linux operating system platform expands an organization’s ability to leverage Xpedio’s automated Web publishing and management of business-critical Web sites. Support for these new platforms will be available after April 1, 2000. www.intranetsol.com