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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

Xerox Corporation announced immediate availability of DocuShare 2.0, the company’s knowledge sharing software platform. DocuShare 2.0 includes significant new features and extensions that allow users, developers and VARs to build highly-customized solutions for sharing knowledge over the Web. DocuShare 2.0 is the first commercially available implementation of WebDAV the emerging standard endorsed by Netscape, Microsoft and Oracle for managing large document repositories across the Web. Xerox has also built on the DocuShare platform to provide interoperability with popular Xerox and third party document capture and output devices. To better serve customers large and small, DocuShare is now available through Xerox Business Services (XBS), as an accessory to Xerox Document Centre networked multifunction devices, and through its VAR channel. DocuShare 2.0 is available in three versions. DocuShare Basics is designed for distributed workgroups requiring a Web-based interface. DocuShare Office meets the needs of more complex organizations, and offers a secure, easily customizable Web interface as well as integration with Microsoft Windows through the XML-based DocuShare Windows Client. DocuShare Enterprise cost-effectively integrates with enterprise-wide applications such as Oracle databases. DocuShare pricing in the US starts with a Basic server and 25-user license for only $1,345. An Office-level server with 500 licenses is $14,995. An unlimited Enterprise server license is $44,995, and includes links to Oracle databases. All prices are $US, and include support for one year. www.xerox.com

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

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