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Pageflex Inc, A Bitstream Company, announced that it is shipping Version 1.5 of the Pageflex Applications Suite. Pageflex is an on-demand XML based publishing solution consisting of three components: Pageflex Designer, Pageflex Producer and Pageflex Server. Together, these components enable the design, compilation and printing of on-demand, customizable documents. Pageflex Designer is a graphical page design tool that creates flexible templates used by Pageflex Producer and Pageflex Server. Pageflex Designer provides a graphical user interface which enables full editing capabilities and drag & drop capabilities for images, text and graphics from database sources. In addition, Pageflex Designer includes a free export plug-in enabling the import of page designs from Adobes In-Design product expected for release later this summer. www.pageflexinc.com

Object Design, Inc.and Bluestone Software, Inc. announced a strategic partnership to integrate and jointly market Object Design’s eXcelon XML data server and the Bluestone XML Suite. When used together, Bluestone XML Suite and eXcelon provide an integrated XML data-management solution for companies seeking to build and deploy new XML e-business applications in areas such as EDI, enterprise application integration, supply chain management, thin-client device, and business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-commerce. Through April 30, 1999, Bluestone is offering a special “sneak peek” price of $995 to Object Design’s eXcelon customers, and Object Design is offering Bluestone XML Suite customers a special eXcelon developer license price of $695. www.objectdesign.com, www.bluestone.com

BlueGill Technologies, announced the BlueGill i-Series, a set of Web-based software applications and tools that enable companies to transform legacy data, such as billing, statements and business to business communications, into interactive customer applications (ICA). The i-Series assists companies in improving customer loyalty, increasing customer retention and building market share in the new Internet economy. The BlueGill i-Series consists of five Web-based software applications, including i-Banker, i-Broker, i-Biller, i-Telco, and i-Insurance, and is packaged around BlueGill’s experience in implementing interactive, customized communications and transactions between businesses and customers in several different industry segments. While many of these implementations were for consumer EBPP, BlueGill has also implemented several other applications outside of EBPP, including telco business-to-business communications, manufacturing applications (EDI RFQ response), insurance administration and online investment statement applications. With the BlueGill Engine, the i-Series combines a modular set of industry specific functions for billing management, business-to-business bills, statements, payment linkage, administration, e-commerce, customer service and marketing, and data management. The BlueGill Engine manages the transition of legacy data into XML-based “Smart Objects,” by transforming the data into an object model and storing it as an XML construct. BlueGill Smart Objects are used to transform customer data into interactive applications, creating a customized, flexible business applications. www.bluegill.com

Corel Corporation announced the launch of WordPerfect Office 2000. With this latest release Corel has concentrated on delivering greater performance and increased compatibility. Various versions of WordPerfect Office 2000 will hit store shelves in May, and in addition to the standard office offerings will also include Dragon NaturallySpeaking; and web site creation agent, Trellix 2 Compatibility has been improved in a number of ways. For example, WordPerfect Office 2000 has enhanced file support / conversions with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and supports PDF, VBA, HTML, ODBC, SGML, XML, and OLAP. The WordPerfect 9 file format remains unchanged since WordPerfect 6.1, so users can easily import or export their files to and from WordPerfect 9. Users can also import WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS files into WordPerfect 9. WordPerfect Office 2000 Standard Edition will be available for a suggested retail price of US $109 (CDN $149). Voice Powered Edition will be sold for a suggested retail price of US $159 (CDN $199). WordPerfect Office 2000 Professional Edition will be available for a suggested retail price of US $209 (CDN $249). WordPerfect Office 2000 Standard Edition will sell for a suggested retail price of US $399 (CDN $599). The full Voice-Powered Edition will be sold for a suggested retail price of US $449 (CDN $699) and WordPerfect Office 2000 Professional Edition will be available for a suggested retail price of US $499 (CDN $769). www.corel.com

Akamai Technologies, Inc. announced that George H. Conrades has been named Akamai’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. He will spearhead the commercial launch of FreeFlow, Akamai’s Internet content distribution service. Mr. Conrades, who has been representing Akamai investor Polaris Venture Partners as a member of the Akamai Board of Directors since last December, will also continue in his position as a venture partner at the venture capital firm.Before joining Polaris in 1998, Mr. Conrades served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BBN Corporation where he led the commercialization of this prestigious high-technology research and development company. After BBN was acquired by GTE in 1997, he led the integration of GTE’s overall Internet and data communications activities as Executive Vice President of GTE and as President of GTE Internetworking. Mr. Conrades began his career at IBM, rising to become the head of IBM United States, where he led the creation of IBM’s services business. www.akamai.com

WavePhore, Inc. announced the availability of the beta release of WavePhore NewsPak. NewsPak enables easy integration of streaming real-time news, selected from more than 70 industry categories, into web sites. NewsPak includes both real-time news feeds and the NewsPak Software Developers Kit. The NewsPak SDK is based on XML, the new universal standard for information exchange. The SDK contains the tools necessary for web site owners to accept a real-time streaming XML news feed from WavePhore, store extracted content on their local server, then display this content in a style consistent with the rest of their site. The NewsPak architecture supports such enhancements as Internet broadcasting of streaming audio and video. www.wavephore.com, www.newspak.com

Alpnet, Inc. announced that it has signed a Letter of Intent with EP Electronic Publishing Partners GmbH in Nuremberg, Germany, which is expected to result in the acquisition of all shares of EP Electronic Publishing Partners by Alpnet before the end of May 1999. Completion of the transaction is subject to due diligence and the execution of a definitive acquisition agreement. EP designs and develops custom-built systems for document, information and translation management. During the past three years, EP has developed and implemented a sophisticated translation management system for a large European institution, providing a unified translation management tool for more than 2000 users. EP was created in 1993 and was formerly the research division of TA Triumph Adler. The company employs 15 people who are active in system integration and consulting projects for German publishing companies. EP also has ongoing projects for a large European institution developing and maintaining translation and information management systems. EP currently projects 1999 revenues, prior to being acquired by Alpnet, to be approximately $1.3 million with profitable operations. www.alpnet.com

Idetix, Inc., an Internet and new media company focused on developing content management products and services, announced the release of Revize v2.0. Revize is a client/server content management software system that enables Web developers to build content editing capabilities into new or existing Web sites quickly and easily. Priced at $895.00 U.S., the software is platform and web server- independent and enables content contributors to use any Java-enabled browser to edit content while site and page layout remain protected. Revize v2.0 is priced at $895 US per web site. Per web site licensing is defined by the base URL entered for each running copy of the Revize server, or each separate entity or organization using Revize. There are no additional costs for content contributors, but third party licensing is required to resell content management services. Revize v2.0 is available through the company’s network of resellers and VARs, or can be downloaded and purchased from www.revize.com