Lotus Development Corp. and Microsoft Corp. tody announced their intent to integrate Microsoft Windows Media Technologies into Lotus’ Notes and Domino Release 5 collaboration software products via IBM’s HotMedia Connect technology. This strategic distribution, development and licensing agreement will deliver the benefits of Microsoft streaming multimedia technology to Notes and Domino R5 users worldwide as well as tighten the integration between Lotus and Microsoft technologies. Initially Lotus plans to ship a partially integrated version of Microsoft Windows Media Player with an upcoming version of Lotus Notes and Domino Release 5. Lotus and Microsoft intend to integrate upcoming versions of Windows Media Technologies with a future update version of Notes and Domino R5 via HotMedia Connect for Domino technology. Additional availability and pricing details will be announced next year. www.lotus.com, www.microsoft.com
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Active Software, Inc., provider of eBusiness integration software products, and Art Technology Group,Inc., developers of e-commerce and online personalization applications, announced the formation of a strategic alliance to enable businesses to deliver Internet Customer Relationship Management (ICRM) solutions integrated with enterprise applications, including Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP. ATG offers the Dynamo suite of e-commerce and personalization software products for enabling large-scale e-commerce solutions that extend customer relationships across the enterprise. ATG will develop, market and resell a Dynamo Adapter for Active Software’s ActiveWorks Integration System. The Dynamo Adapter for Active Works allows businesses to draw customer information from multiple data sources enabling a seamless flow of information throughout the extended enterprise. www.activesw.com, www.atg.com
Commerce One, Inc. announced the Commerce One Common Business Library (CBL) 2.0, an XML specification for the cross-industry exchange of business documents such as purchase orders, invoices, product descriptions, and shipping schedules. Commerce One CBL 2.0 is a set of XML building blocks and a document framework that allows the creation of reusable XML documents for electronic commerce. Using the CBL 2.0 document framework, businesses can conduct electronic commerce by exchanging business documents of different types. To enable companies to preserve their investment in existing standards such as traditional EDI, CBL 2.0 provides a transition path to XML-based commerce capability. Based on a broad range of Internet and commerce-related industry standards and specifications, CBL 2.0 is endorsed by the Microsoft BizTalk initiative, OASIS, the UN/CEFACT Techniques and Methodologies Working Group, and CommerceNet and its eCo Framework Project and Working Group. To encourage its industry-wide adoption and development, CBL 2.0 is free of charge and available immediately from e-commerce document repositories including XML.org, BizTalk.org, CommerceNet and Commerce One MarketSite.net. www.commerceone.com
Bluestone Software Inc. announced complementary product agreements with Cloudscape Inc., Extensibility Inc., Fiorano Software Inc., PointBase Inc., and Vervet Logic to bundle and integrate their XML technologies with Bluestone Visual-XML, the company’s toolkit for building XML applications. Fiorano/EMS brings its Java message-queuing and publish-subscribe communications listener and dispatcher, while Cloudscape adds its 100% Pure Java SQL database management system and its Cloudsync application synchronization facility. PointBase extends Bluestone’s XML functionality with its own 100% Pure Java SQL DBMS. In addition, Bluestone Visual-XML users now have access to a pair of advanced XML authoring tools — Extensibility’s XML Authority v1.0 XML schema design and conversion tool and Vervet Logic’s XML Pro v2.0 XML editor. Bluestone will bundle all five companion products with Bluestone Visual-XML, which will support plug-and-play integration of the products. www.bluestone.com.
iXOS Software AG, announced that its new web-enabled iXOS-ARCHIVE version 3.5 is now available. iXOS-ARCHIVE 3.5 has an integrated HTTP interface (already certified by SAP for interfacing with SAP ArchiveLink Release 4.5), that extends access to information via the web in addition to allowing business document management using a standard web browser. www.ixos.com
Inprise Corporation announced the shipment and availability of Borland Delphi 5, the latest version of its rapid application development tool for Windows. Delphi 5 is designed to simplify the integration of Windows and browser clients, Web servers, middleware and back-end database systems. This new version includes support for HTML 4 and XML. Delphi 5 is available in three versions — Delphi 5 Enterprise, Delphi 5 Professional, and Delphi 5 Standard. All versions of Delphi 5 are currently available from Inprise and major software distribution channels. Delphi 5 Enterprise has an estimated street price of $2,499 for new users. Delphi 5 Professional has an ESP of $799. Delphi 5 Standard has an ESP of $99.95. Current owners of any Borland Client/Server or Enterprise product can purchase Delphi 5 Enterprise for an ESP of $1,699. Current owners of any Borland Professional product can purchase Delphi 5 Enterprise for an ESP of $2,199. Current owners of other Borland development tools products can purchase Delphi 5 Professional for an ESP of $249.95. Current owners of competing products, like Visual Basic or PowerBuilder, can purchase Delphi 5 Professional for an ESP of $299.95. These prices are in US dollars and apply only in the United States. International customers should contact their local Inprise office, distributor or representative. www.inprise.com
FileNET Corp. announced it has integrated a new Panagon Dashboard portal environment as a key part of its new Panagon IDM Desktop 3.0 Integrated Document Management software. Panagon Dashboard provides direct IDM application interfaces so that users can view repository documents and manage FileNET content within Microsoft Outlook. Once users have installed IDM Desktop 3.0 they can immediately customize their Outlook navigation bar, pull-down menus and mouse controls to directly access Panagon 2000 functionality within Microsoft Outlook. It will ship in the 4th qtr, 1999. www.filenet.com
Keyfile Corporation announced it will support the Microsoft BizTalk Framework with an XML workflow schema that can be embedded with online forms, transactions and other XML documents. The schema defines the business logic for receiving, handling and processing the XML document as part of an e-commerce transaction. It is available in the library section of biztalk.org. www.keyfile.com
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