OASIS Member News: XML 2003 Interoperability Demonstrations to Showcase

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XML 2003 Interoperability Demonstrations to Showcase

Industry Standards, Integrated Vendor Solutions

Alexandria, VA - Nov. 19, 2003 - IDEAlliance, a leading trade association
dedicated to fostering information technology standards, today announced
that XML Conference and Exposition 2003 will feature several
“interoperability demonstrations” organized by OASIS, W3C, and WS-I.  The
demonstrations will showcase numerous vendors’ products working together to
help businesses solve critical IT challenges.  XML Conference and Exposition
2003 is being held Dec. 7-12 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in
Philadelphia, Pa.

Marion Elledge, vice president of Information Technology Alliances &
Conferences, IDEAlliance, says that the demonstrations highlight the
importance of standards in allowing disparate products to join together to
form comprehensive, tightly integrated business solutions.

“Simply put, standards are the ‘glue’ that allow companies to tie together
different products to best meet their unique business and workflow needs,”
says Elledge.  “These demonstrations, organized by leading standards
organizations such as OASIS and W3C, will focus on real-world solutions made
possible by industry standards and product interoperability.”

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
Standards), a global consortium that drives the development, convergence,
and adoption of e-business standards, has organized five demonstrations
featuring a variety of OASIS standards and specifications:

-- Achieving Interoperability Using Test Frameworks, Tues., Dec. 9, 1:30
p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

-- The OASIS WS-Reliability Interoperability Demonstration, Tues., Dec. 9,
6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
   Participating Companies: Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL),
Sun Microsystems
   Inc.(NASDAQ: SUNW)

-- Epidemic Management Using OASIS ebXML, UBL and XACML Specifications,
Wed., Dec. 10, 2 p.m.
   to 3:30 p.m.
   Participating Companies:Yellow Dragon, Sun, Sybase, Adobe Systems, Inc.
(NASDAQ: ADBE),
   IOPSYS, Seeburger, Cyclone Commerce, National Institute of Standards and
Technology,
   AmberPoint, Inc.

-- The OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) Specification, Wed.,
Dec. 10, 6 p.m.
   to 6:30 p.m.
   Participating Companies: BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS), Citrix, IBM,
Oracle, Plumtree
   Vignette


The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), developer of interoperable Web
technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools), has
organized interoperability demonstrations on four topics:

*	Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Implementations
*	Web Services
*	Semantic Web Applications and Collaboration Software
*	XML Schemas in Enterprise Applications
*	Providing Test Suites Using XML-based Technologies

Organizations participating in the W3C demonstrations include Arbortext,
INRIA, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Open Group.
Demonstrations will take place daily at XML 2003; times will be posted at
the conference.

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), which promotes Web
Services interoperability across platforms, applications, and programming
languages, has organized interoperability demonstrations that will take
place at their booth (#416) during trade show hours.

IDEAlliance, working with the International Cooperation for the Integration
of Processes in Prepress, Press, and Postpress (CIP4) organization and L.A.
Burman Associates Inc., has planned a program at XML 2003 designed to
encourage the adoption of the JDF Specification:

*	JDF Seminar Tues., Dec. 9, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
      Keynote speaker: Kin Wah Lam of Time Inc.
	Participating Companies:  Adobe, Agfa, Creo, EFI, Heidelberg, QTI,
Printcafe, and ScreenUSA

*	JDF Pavilion (Interoperability Demonstrations) Dec. 9 and 10, 12:30 p.m.
to 7:00 p.m.
      Participating Companies: Agfa, EFI, Heidelberg, and Printcafe

For more information about the demonstrations and the entire schedule for
the XML Conference and Exposition 2003, visit
<http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/2003/schedule.asp>

About XML 2003

XML 2003 programs focus on critical XML topics such as B2B, content
management, graphics and multimedia, publishing, vertical industry
applications, Web services, and more.  Keynote speakers and presenters at
XML 2003 will include representatives from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT);
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW); Oracle Server Technologies (NASDAQ:
ORCL); Reuters (NASDAQ: RTRSY); BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS); Hewlett
Packard (NYSE:HPQ); and IBM Corporation (NYSE: IBM).  For more information,
visit <http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/2003/registration.asp>.

About IDEAlliance

IDEAlliance (International Digital Enterprise Alliance) is a not-for-profit
membership organization.  Its mission is to advance user-driven,
cross-industry solutions for all publishing and content-related processes by
developing standards, fostering business alliances, and identifying best
practices.  Founded in 1966 as the Graphic Communications Association,
IDEAlliance has been a leader in information technology, developing Document
Markup Metalanguage (GENCODE), sponsoring the Standard Generalized Markup
Language (SGML), and fostering eXtensible Markup Language (XML).
IDEAlliance builds on these languages to create specifications that enhance
efficiency and speed information in all aspects of publishing and
content-related processes. Learn more about IDEAlliance at
www.idealliance.org.

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