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Sun Unveils XML Support In Java

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

Netscape to integrate XML into e-commerce apps

Netscape Communications Corporation announced that it will integrate comprehensive support for XML across its portfolio of e-commerce applications to help customers harness the benefits of XML to streamline interoperability between companies to better manage their commerce foundation in the Net Economy. Netscape’s implementation of XML will support e-commerce transactions, business processes and catalog exchanges. The Netscape CommerceXpert family of packaged applications enable Internet commerce exchange, corporate procurement, online selling and customer information services. Netscape CommerceXpert products that are scheduled to support XML include Netscape BuyerXpert, Netscape ECXpert, Netscape SellerXpert and Netscape TradingXpert. www.netscape.com

Infoteria unveils “XML solution components”

Infoteria Inc. unveiled a new software product named “XML Solution Components.” XML Solution Components is a series of components for building the XML-based solution systems. Using XML Solution Components, the inter-Enterprise XML-based information system, and XML-based e-Commerce internet systems are built easily and rapidly. The first version of XML Solution Components consists of 7 components, iAccess, iHTML, iMessage, iNotes, iOracle, iPad, and iRule. For example, iMessage handles the XML data send via SMTP and retrieves it from the mail box to the XML storage. iHTML generates HTML file from XML data with XSL based style rules, so that the end-users do not require the latest Web browser such as Internet Explorer 5.0 to access to XML-based system. Each component in XML Solution Components can be purchased separately. The components are available as Executables, Windows COM modules and C++ libraries. The components will separately start shipping in May, 1999 to August, 1999. Japanese versions will also be available in addition to the English versions. Infoteria Inc., founded in 1998, is a software company that focuses on XML technology. The company is dedicated to the development of a wide range of practical XML software products from XML access libraries to XML Servers for the purpose of inter-enterprise electronic commerce. www.infoteria.com

Arbortext shows ‘free-form’ XML editing

Arbortext, Inc., demonstrated a “free-form” XML editing capability that will be available in upcoming releases of Epic and ADEPT products. Content management systems that allow free-form editing enable an author to create and refine XML documents without a corresponding DTD.. Arbortext’s support for free-form editing means Epic and ADEPT users can edit well-formed XML documents as easily as they edit valid XML documents today. The amount of content available in XML is rapidly expanding and users of proprietary tools will be virtually “locked out” of the XML wave because of the huge cost of conversion. With Arbortext’s free-form XML editing capability, no conversion is necessary — authors can instantly read, modify and write well-formed XML data from any source, or incorporate that data into a valid XML document. www.arbortext.com

OnDisplay announces XML support

OnDisplay announced the immediate availability of CenterStage 3.3 which provides XML support for rapid business-to-business application integration. Leveraging CenterStage’s graphical approach to heterogeneous content integration, the XML features allow trading partners to be integrated in less than one-third the time required using first generation programming oriented business-to-business integration tools. The XML support allows companies to parse, query, transform and map XML bi-directionally with ERP applications, E-Commerce applications, databases and legacy systems. OnDisplay is an active proponent in the development of XML as an emerging standard for e-business integration, specifically in the areas of content aggregation and application integration. OnDisplay is a member of several XML-related industry consortiums such as CommerceNet, Open Applications Group (OAG), and ICE, and will support XML-based E-Commerce frameworks such as Microsoft’s BizTalk and Ariba’s cXML initiatives. OnDisplay will incorporate support for these XML DTDs into CenterStage to further automate business-to-business collaboration across industry standard specifications. www.ondisplay.com

Autonomy adds new hires in Washington and Boston

Autonomy, Inc. announced the establishment of offices in Washington, D.C. and Boston. Autonomy has named six new hires for marketing and sales: Dan Buan, Darlene G. Hines, Rita Joseph, Mitchell Logan and Julie Hartigan in the Washington, D.C. office and Allyson Miller in the Boston office. The eastern regional division will report directly to Steve Jaffee, director of eastern region, while the federal division reports to Jon Wilks, vice president of sales. Autonomy develops software that automatically organizes large, unstructured volumes of information into personally relevant communications to help corporate intranets and commercial websites serve the changing needs and interests of users. The intelligent pattern recognition technology that fuels Autonomy’s software was originally developed by Autonomy’s sister company, Neurodynamics, for use in intelligence and defense applications. www.autonomy.com

Hummingbird to acquire PC DOCS Group

Hummingbird Communications Ltd and PC DOCS Group International Inc announced they have entered into an agreement pursuant to which Hummingbird would acquire PC DOCS Group. Each outstanding common share of PC DOCS Group will be exchanged for 0.3333 of a common share of Hummingbird. As a result of the transaction, PC DOCS Group will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hummingbird. The transaction values PC DOCS Group at approximately US$155 million, representing a 38% premium for PC DOCS Group shareholders based on the average closing prices of the two companies’ shares over the last ten trading days prior to the announcement of the transaction. Following the completion of the transaction, which is estimated to be during May 1999, PC DOCS Group will become an operating division of Hummingbird, continuing to serve and support its customers in close collaboration with the Hummingbird organization. The Boards of Directors of Hummingbird and PC DOCS Group have each unanimously approved the transaction. Ruby Osten will become Vice Chairman of an expanded seven person board of directors of Hummingbird and will retain his position as President of PC DOCS Group.

Microsoft announces BizTalk

Microsoft Corp. has announced Microsoft BizTalk, a new cross-platform e-commerce framework that makes it easy for businesses to integrate applications and conduct business over the Internet with trading partners and customers. The BizTalk framework is based on XML schemas and industry standards that enable integration across industries and between business systems, regardless of platform, operating system or underlying technology. Microsoft also announced plans to incorporate the BizTalk schema into the Microsoft Commerce Platform, initiatives for the MSN network for Internet services, and future versions of Office, the BackOffice family and Windows operating systems. BizTalk makes integrating software in an internal technology environment easier and more cost-effective. Because BizTalk is a cross-platform framework, it allows software to communicate between different common object models, programming languages or shared database schemas. BizTalk is designed to enable the integration of software so that businesses can immediately increase the efficiency of their internal business systems and take advantage of e-commerce while making optimal use of existing investments in hardware and software. Microsoft plans to host a design review of new BizTalk schemas with customers, industry vendors and industry consortia in the second half of 1999. The design review will be an open forum for providing input on the BizTalk framework and will result in the publishing of all current and future BizTalk protocols. All BizTalk documents, message handling protocols and service descriptions will be maintained on the Microsoft Web site as a public resource. For more information about BizTalk, see www.microsoft.com/presspass/commerce/

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