Eprise Corporation announced the company’s next offering a robust open architecture for dynamic content management. Participant Server 2.5 is a platform that enables business professionals to create, update, and target Web-based communications via the Internet, intranets, or extranets. Operating as a Web server plug-in, Participant Server 2.5 features comprehensive, event-driven services for controlling content contribution, management, and distribution that are all accessible from easy-to-use forms in a Web browser. No specialized server scripting language is required. In addition, Participant Server offers integration agents for Microsoft Active Server Pages, Allaire ColdFusion, and Java technologies that allow developers to take advantage of these same services from their native environment. Eprise Participant Server 2.5 is available this month supporting Windows NT 4.0, Internet Information Server, and SQL Server 6.5 or SQL Server 7. Support for Sun Solaris using Netscape Enterprise Server and Oracle will be added within the next 45 days. Base pricing remains at $50,000 per Web server. www.eprise.com.
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System 1 Software, Inc announced that it has designed and published a schema for the equipment finance industry based on the Microsoft BizTalk Framework. The company developed an XML schema for electronic financing credit applications that facilitates the exchange of information over the Internet. Applications for credit based on this schema can be submitted by an equipment finance professional (broker), a vendor or borrower to request funding for equipment financing from a bank or finance company lender or lessor, or broker, regardless of differing operating systems or databases. System 1 Software’s schema for the financing credit application is available online in the BizTalk Framework schema library, which is accessible at www.biztalk.org, www.system1.com
Documentum, Inc. introduced its project portal to manage team knowledge. Documentum iTeam provides an integrated, easy-to-use project space for driving distributed, cross-functional team collaboration on the Web. iTeam enables significant increases in team productivity, faster project execution and shorter time-to-revenue. Documentum designed iTeam with the intention of making it easy for knowledge workers to install and kick-off projects, assemble teams and start producing. iTeam is built upon Documentum 4i, the first content management platform designed to dynamically manage all facets of content creation and delivery for both corporate and eBusiness portals. iTeam is shipping now and is available on both Documentum 4i and EDMS 98 on Windows NT or UNIX platforms. www.documentum.com
Information Architects and IllusionFusion! announced a strategic alliance to help companies build effective businesses on the Internet. The strategic alliance will combine Information Architect’s patented Java-based Metaphoria content aggregation and syndication capabilities with IllusionFusion!’s digital studios – graphics, animation, Internet, live production and sound – to develop products and programs for clients that combine sophisticated content aggregation and personalization with rich new media. iA’s flagship offering, the Metaphoria Virtual Web Server, is JAVA based Internet technology that provides powerful aggregation and syndication of any digital information from anywhere it resides, including from multiple sources. The Metaphoria Virtual Web Server enables data residing in mainframes, client server systems, web servers, Internets and Extranets to be combined and viewed from any internet accessible devise such as a PC, PDA, WebTV, Palm VII or WinCE device. The core components of the Metaphoria Virtual Web Server provides content management, syndication, publishing, e-commerce, and bi-directional Legacy and Client Server systems integration via the Web. Resource Description Framework (RDF) standard is at the core of iA’s Metaphoria Syndication Server. RDF provides a robust, flexible, and efficient platform for content syndication. www.illusionfusion.com
Excelergy Corporation announced the release of an XML standard business library for use by participants in energy choice. Excelergy is promoting “open” communications among customers, energy service providers and distribution companies in the competitive energy environment. Excelergy defined partner interface processes (PIP) for the relevant transactions (e.g. enrollment, usage, and payment) for the deregulated energy space. The XML library contains vocabularies and DTDs to enable interoperable data transactions among energy participants including suppliers and utilities. The paper “XML for Retail Energy Transactions: A White Paper,” highlighting the trading partner XML standard developed by Excelergy, is now available on Excelergy’s web site. For information on XML standard business library, a listing of the XML vocabularies, and to order a copy of the White Paper free of charge, visit www.excelergy.com
Enigma, Inc., announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Inso Corporation’s DynaWeb/Text and Synex product lines. Under the terms of the agreement, the technical publishing component of Inso’s Product Data Management division will be purchased for approximately $15.5 million in cash and assumption of liabilities. The transaction will be a stock purchase between Enigma Inc. and its affiliate Enigma Information Systems Ltd. of the all the outstanding stock of Inso’s subsidiaries, Inso Providence Corporation and ViewPort Development AB of Stockholm. www.inso.com, www.enigma.com
XML Global announced the launch of a new portal site for XSLT (www.XSLT.com), providing Web developers and programmers with information on XSLT (extensible stylesheet language transformations). XSLT is a language for performing XML transformations. Through XSLT.com, XML Global intends to foster a community of XSLT users, enabling them to join e-mail groups and open forums and find the latest XSLT tools. The Web site provides individuals and companies information about the developments in XSLT and access to recent news on products and standards. XSLT.com links to related XSLT sites to highlight the contributions of others, instead of duplicating them. The site also allows developers and programmers to research upcoming conferences and available educational materials. www.goxml.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced two strategic acquisitions. The acquisitions of Forte Software, Inc. and NetBeans, Inc. allows Sun to offer a full array of integrated development tools for individuals, small businesses and large enterprises. The acquisitions of Forte, based in Oakland, Calif., and NetBeans, headquartered in The Czech Republic, complete Sun’s integrated development environment (IDE) strategy. Forte provides tools for developing, integrating and deploying scalable, enterprise-class distributed applications. Forte’s products include: SynerJ, the Java technology-based IDE, Forte Fusion, the XML-based Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) environment, and Forte Application Environment, a market leading enterprise 4GL tool. NetBeans, a Java technology IDE supplier for Linux, is best known for its cross-platform NetBeans Developer Java technology IDE. The company has had more than 100,000 downloads of its NetBeans Developer product, which visually extends the Java Development Kit (JDK) and includes integrated visual design, editing, compilation, and debugging tools. NetBeans software is based on an open API, which provides an extensible platform for development of third party, customizable, modular tools for the Java platform. The current tools suite supports the Java 2 platform including JavaServer Pages, Servlet, XML, CORBA, RMI and JDBC technologies platform. A free version of NetBeans Developer IDE for the Solaris Operating Environment, Linux, Windows 98 and Windows NT are available for immediate download from www.netbeans.com/product_dl.html, www.sun.com
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