INFOTERIA ANNOUNCES PRODUCT AND SCHEMA DESIGN SUPPORT FOR BIZTALK FRAMEWORK

["Pina Hirano" <pina@infoteria.co.jp>]

PRESS RELEASE

November 18th, 1999
Infoteria Inc.

Infoteria Announces Product and Schema Design Support for BizTalk Framework
First Such Support from a Japan-based Company

Infoteria Inc, the leading XML software design and development company,
today announced its support for Microsoft's BizTalk Framework. BizTalk
Framework will appear in upcoming Infoteria products such as XML Solution
Components and XML Schema Design Service such as MML (Medical Markup
Language) released by the Japan Association for Medical Informatics (JAMI).
Infoteria's announcement of support today is the first by a Japanese
company.

"BizTalk Framework is a platform-independent, vendor-independent framework
for Enterprise Application Integration," said Pina Hirano, President and CEO
of Infoteria Inc. "By supporting the BizTalk Framework in our products and
services, we will allow users to easily create BizTalk Framework compliant
B2B solutions in heterogeneous vendor environments. In addition, Infoteria's
Schema Design Service offers BizTalk Framework compliant schema creation.
For instance, Medical Markup Language (MML) developed using our Schema
Design Service is already BizTalk Framework ready, and will be submitted to
BizTalk.org in the near future."

Infoteria Inc., a member of W3C and OASIS, is a software development company
for emerging XML technology. The company is dedicated to developing a wide
range of practical XML software products from XML enablement libraries to
XML Servers for the next generation of e-Commerce.

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Contact: Sayo Nakamura, Tel: 81-3-5725-5107
E-Mail:press@infoteria.co.jp
http://www.infoteria.com/


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