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Microstar Software Ltd. and Vervet Logic today announced an agreement to bundle Near & Far Designer XML from Microstar and XML Pro from Vervet. The package will be available from both companies for a special promotional price. Together the products allow for XML-based Web application design (Near & Far Designer) and XML content creation (XML Pro) in a comprehensive suite for Web developers at a competitive price. Microstar also announced the availability of an XML only version of Near & Far Designe. The product is designed to meet the specific needs of Web application developers in the rapidly growing market for XML publishing and e-commerce applications. www.microstar.com, www.vervet.com

Hynet Technologies, announced the release of Hynet Directive 2.1.Hynet Directive is an XML-based electronic publishing product currently being used by financial institutions and high-tech manufacturers to convert documents and publish up-to-date information to the Internet and CD-ROM. Directive 2.1 adds new functionality, including: the ability to access to the Directive conversion engine via C++, Visual Basic and Java; the ability to edit Directive document types; and the ability to edit and reuse existing or automatically generated document mapping rules. The Directive conversion engine, which can be purchased separately from the Directive publishing product, provides conversion of Microsoft Word and Adobe FrameMaker documents to HTML or XML. This tool is now enhanced for batch processing environments with command line access and APIs for C++, Visual Basic, and Java. The Directive document type editor allows users to generate and edit document types with point-and-click commands. Document types are templates which encapsulate meta data and import and target mapping rules for a class of documents. The Directive document type editor is integrated into the Directive desktop. www.hynet.com

Shana Corp. today announced the release of its FileNET Panagon IDM plug-in for v2.6 of Informed Designer and Informed Filler, Shana’s – e-forms design and deployment tools. Together, Shana’s Informed and FileNET’s Panagon IDM Document Services software provide tools and services for the design, deployment and maintenance of form-centric solutions. The Informed/FileNET plug-in requires Informed version 2.6 and Panagon IDM Desktop version 2.0 or greater. The plug-in is available immediately for free to any registered user of Informed version 2.6 and can be downloaded from the following URL:

Inso Corporation announced that Stephen O. Jaeger has been elected non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors effective immediately, filling a position which had been vacant. Mr. Jaeger is currently an independent member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee. Mr. Jaeger, 54, is one of the founders of Inso and has served on the Company’s Board of Directors since its Initial Public Offering in 1994. He previously served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Member of the Board of Directors of Houghton Mifflin Company. Mr. Jaeger, who is currently a principal, director and officer of PharmaCom Group Inc., has also served as Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of The Perkin-Elmer Corporation. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the North American Operations of The British Petroleum Company PLC (“BP”) and as a Division Manager at BP’s London headquarters, reporting to British Petroleum’s Treasurer. Mr. Jaeger also currently sits on the Board of Directors of Strategic Diagnostics Inc. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a veteran of the U.S. Navy. Mr. Jaeger received an MBA in Accounting from Rutgers University and a B.A. in Psychology from Fairfield University. www.inso.com

UWI.Com, announced a new release of InternetForms Designer, the visual interface for professional XML forms creation. InternetForms Designer 1.2 enables developers to create and deploy secure, intelligent, and legally-binding documents for their e-commerce applications while taking advantage of the openness of XML. The new release also includes several new features that improve developer productivity and enhance ease-of-use. The release of InternetForms Designer 1.2 completes the newest version of the InternetForms System, a suite of products based on XFDL (Extensible Forms Description Language), the XML protocol for legally-binding transactions on the Internet. XFDL was co-authored by UWI.Com and Tim Bray, co-editor of the original XML specification, and has been submitted to the W3C for consideration as an Internet standard. The InternetForms System also includes InternetForms Viewer, a web browser extension for completing and signing InternetForms, as well as a broad range of processing applications for popular databases, imaging, document management, and workflow systems, legacy access, and Palm PCs. www.uwi.com

Documentum, Inc. announced its inclusion into the Society for the Worldwide Interbank Funds Telecommunications (S.W.I.F.T.) Partner Program as a registered vendor in the Derivatives Provider category. Documentum’s suite of finance industry solutions, based upon the Documentum Enterprise Document Management System 98 (EDMS 98), currently supports the S.W.I.F.T. financial message standards. This integration provides Documentum finance customers with an industry standard method for communicating documents between counterparties. Documentum is also working with S.W.I.F.T. to attain the necessary information and support to achieve the next level of accreditation, known as Silver. Virtually every major bank uses the S.W.I.F.T. network to communicate interbank payments and settlements. Other less sophisticated communication mechanisms include fax telex and email. S.W.I.F.T. establishes standards for message transfer to provide low-cost, competitive financial processing and communication services of the highest quality, integrity and reliability. Documentum support for the message standards now enables its industry leading Swaps and Derivatives confirm generation system to interface to the S.W.I.F.T network. www.documentum.com

Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced its intent to create a Java platform standard extension for XML through the Java Community Process. The XML standard extension will be an industry-developed API that enterprises and developers can rely on for high quality XML language integration with the Java platform. Sun has outlined an initial version of the XML standard extension that provides basic functionality including the ability to read, manipulate, and generate XML technology-based data streams and formats. These core features form the building blocks for developing fully-functional XML language oriented applications. The XML standard extension will consist of a specification, reference implementation, and compatibility test suite. The XML standard extension will conform to the XML 1.0 specification, will leverage existing efforts around other Java technology-based APIs, and will be developed using the Java Community Process. http://java.sun.com/xml