SoftLock.com, Inc. and Handheld Media announced a reseller agreement whereby Handheld Media will offer format independent production, secure merchandising, distribution and electronic sale of e-Books. The combination of Handheld Media’s services with the SoftLock CyberSales Solution will create a turnkey service for the distribution of valuable content designed for print, including documents in Quark, Word, and other pre-production file formats and allow publishers to easily sell their content using the emerging e-Book publication structure OEB 1.0. The results can be read on a variety of information appliances, enabling new consumer channels for the existing millions of print content sources. www.softlockcom
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Sequoia Software Corporation announced the new Sequoia XML Portal Server. The Sequoia XML Portal Server provides a information delivery mechanism that shortcuts the search and retrieval process typical of corporate portals. The Sequoia XML Portal Server incorporates a patent-pending XML indexing engine that allows users to conduct context-sensitive searches. This enhances information retrieval by giving users the ability to conduct searches that are highly granular, accurate and efficient. The Sequoia XML Portal Server shortcuts information retrieval by eliminating drill down, the process of finding and piecing together fragments of data from multiple search results. This is accomplished by providing users with customized information snapshots called Aggregate XML Objects (AXOs). AXOs are assembled by aggregating multiple, unique XML data elements into a new object that represents a user’s specific information requirements. Sequoia XML Portal will be available in October 1999 for Windows NT. www.sequoiasoftware.com
The Object Management Group (OMG) announced a membership exchange with the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). OASIS has joined the OMG as a Domain Member and the OMG is now a Sponsor Member of OASIS. As an OASIS Sponsor Member, the OMG will participate in OASIS technical discussion groups and committee-working groups, receive XML.org registry/repository services, and will be directly involved in the work of the OASIS Technical Committee. As an OMG Domain Member, the OASIS is entitled to technical, business and marketing benefits including the ability to vote on technology adoptions in the Domain Technology Committee (DTC), Domain Task Forces (DTFs), Special Interest Groups (SIGs), and Subcommittees. In particular, OASIS can make technology submissions to the DTC Requests for Proposals (RFPs). www.omg.org, www.oasis-open.org
OASIS, announced that it has formed a strategic relationship with the Open Applications Group, Inc. (OAGI). As part of the agreement, OASIS will make the OAGI XML Business Object Documents available on XML.org, the open, vendor-neutral industry portal hosted by OASIS. Further, the two organizations have agreed to exchange sponsor-level memberships, enabling each to contribute to the other’s technical work. The Open Applications Group Integration Specification (OAGIS) is a model for business software application component interoperability. OAGIS defines a set of components, processes and interfaces for integrating many key enterprise business applications, including financials, manufacturing, human resources, supply chain and logistics both inside and outside the enterprise. The content of OAGIS has been made machine readable in the form of XML DTDs for all currently defined OAGI Business Object Documents. It is one of the largest collections of standardized XML DTDs in support of ERP applications in existence. www.openapplications.org, www.xml.org
Information Architects Corporation, and Thoughtmill Corporation announced they have entered a partnership to deploy iA’s Metaphoria Virtual Web Server technology to Thoughmill’s clients and partners. Metaphoria Virtual Web Server provides 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. www.ia.com, www.thoughtmill.com
XMLSolutions Corporation announced the general availability of the ExeterXML Server release 1.0. ExeterXML Server can apply server-side style sheets to XML documents, allowing customers to begin fielding XML applications today without worrying about the client capabilities. ExeterXML Server has the built in logic to recognize the capabilities of the requesting application or browser to determine whether or not to serve an XML or HTML document. The ExeterXML Server utilizes IBM’s WebSphere Application Server to provide servlet processing. XMLSolutions also employs the WebSphere Studio application and VisualAge for Java. Today, the ExeterXML Server supports the Windows NT, Linux, and Solaris 2.5.1 platforms. A future release scheduled for early October will include support for the AIX platform. www.xmls.com
Ardent Software, Inc. announced a strategic initiative designed to allow organizations to deploy a single enterprise information infrastructure (EII) to support a wide variety of strategic solutions, including e-business, analytical applications and enterprise information portals. The EII initiative is a direct response to the growing need to include unstructured information sources, and provides a uniform, enterprise-wide approach to information integration across data, applications and processes. Ardent’s EII initiative will provide users with reliable, timely, and relevant information from structured or unstructured enterprise data sources to support the decision-making process using the best information available. The approach is based on XML and is content- and application-independent. Ardent will deliver its EII solutions in several phases. The first solution is the DataStage Suite for Business Information Infrastructure (BII), The DataStage Suite includes the DataStage data movement tool, DataStage XE, which includes data movement, meta data management and integration, and data quality assurance capabilities, and DataStage Enterprise, which adds mainframe processing and activity management services. In the second phase, Ardent will Web-enable enterprise access to the rich business and technical meta data provided by its BII, delivering broader access to BI reports, associated meta data and related unstructured data such as spreadsheets, presentations, and other content. In the third phase, Ardent plans to deliver the essential foundation for an enterprise portal. Ardent’s EII for enterprise portals will incorporate an integration layer that unifies related content from both structured and unstructured sources, enabling a personalized view of information from across the enterprise. EII for enterprise portals will provide a content- and application-independent platform to support information-intensive applications, including e-business and analytical applications. www.ardentsoftware.com
OASIS announced plans to expand its technical work and member services by adding several new staff positions. Most of the new personnel will concentrate on advancing the work of XML.org, the open, vendor-neutral industry. As part of the expansion, OASIS is seeking a program director to lead the implementation and management of XML.org, a technical staff member to support the XML.org and OASIS technical working groups and a webmaster to enhance the Consortium’s sites (including the OASIS site, XML.org, the CGM Open site and Robin Cover XML Pages). OASIS will also add a member services manager dedicated to meeting the needs of Sponsor, Contributor, Associate and Individual members of OASIS. www.oasis-open.org
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