Eastman Kodak Company today announced that Gerry Sutton has been appointed President of the company’s Eastman Software subsidiary, effective immediately. Sutton will report to Candy Obourn, President of Kodak’s Document Imaging business, with Eastman Software continuing to operate as a subsidiary unit of the company. Sutton replaces Robert Weiler, who had been president of Eastman Software since the unit’s inception in 1997. Weiler will remain a consultant to the business. Kodak will align the subsidiary under the company’s Document Imaging business, the supplier of micrographics and document imaging products and services. Sutton’s most recent assignment was as general manager for Kodak’s Business Imaging Systems worldwide service bureau operations and sales. In addition he has served as general manager for the business in the U.S. and Canada, Europe, Africa and Middle East Regions and has managed the Asia Pacific Regional operations for Eastman Software. www.eastmansoftware.com
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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, 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 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, 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
PeopleSoft Inc. announced they have selected Microsoft technologies and standards to develop key elements of the PeopleSoft Business Network (PSBN), including PSBN’s role-based Enterprise Portal and a series of Community Applications. PSBN is an electronic business network of Internet business solutions that will deliver a broad range of relevant information, including applications and content, to a large number of end users through an Enterprise Portal. Announced in November 1998 and scheduled for availability later this year. The two companies also announced that PeopleSoft plans to collaborate with Microsoft on the XML-based BizTalk framework for application integration and e-commerce. www.peoplesoft.com
DataChannel, announced that its XML Framework, portfolio of XML software solutions and services, will support Microsoft’s BizTalk to enable cross platform electronic commerce over the Internet. www.datachannel.com
Level 8 Systems, provider of messaging middleware and enterprise application integration (EAI) solutions, announced support for Microsoft Commerce Interchange Pipeline (CIP) and the BizTalk framework in its upcoming EAI product, Geneva E/A Integrator.Geneva E/A Integrator (“Geneva”) is a Windows NT Server-based enterprise application integration product that supports XML based messaging and workflow integration across heterogeneous platforms and applications. Geneva, integrates with Windows Distributed interNet Applications (DNA) architecture technologies including MTS and MSMQ, XML, HTTP, and other middleware technologies. Geneva will be officially launched at the end of March. www.level8.com
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