[regrep] FW: Gilbane Report Email News Vol. 4, Num. 4

["Breininger, Kathryn R" <kathryn.r.breininger@boeing.com>]

Nice PR on the ebXML Registry specs!

-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Geyer
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:30 AM
To: kathryn.r.breininger@boeing.com
Subject: FW: Gilbane Report Email News Vol. 4, Num. 4


Kathryn,
Here's some nice, fast PR on the ebXML Registry specs.
Carol

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VIGNETTE V6 AVAILABLE IN STANDARD & ENTERPRISE EDITIONS
1/30/2002

Vignette Corp. announced immediate availability of Standard and
Enterprise editions of the Vignette Content Suite V6. Vignette Content
Suite V6 Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition both offer content
management capabilities for managing the entire content life cycle.
Vignette now offers a pricing model that is more competitive. The
Vignette Content Suite V6 Standard Edition is for departmental or small
Web sites, and the Vignette Content Suite V6 Enterprise Edition offers
organizations and large Web sites the enhanced security, reliability and
scalability required for higher-traffic sites. www.vignette.com


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OASIS EBXML REGISTRY COMMITTEE APPROVES UPDATED SPECS
1/30/2002

The OASIS ebXML Registry Technical Committee announced its approval of
the ebXML Registry Services Specification v2.0 and the ebXML Registry
Information Model v2.0. Both are updated versions of specifications
originally developed under the ebXML Initiative, jointly sponsored by
OASIS and the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and
Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT). The new versions of the specifications
have advanced under the OASIS technical process and have been submitted
to the OASIS membership at-large for consideration as OASIS Standards.
The OASIS membership will vote on the ebXML Registry specifications in
April 2002. The two revised specifications have been approved by the
members of the OASIS ebXML Registry Technical Committee, which include
Boeing, Fujitsu, IONA, Logistics Management Institute, NIST, Sterling
Commerce, Sun Microsystems, Vitria Technology, webMethods, and others.
The specifications are now under review by the entire membership of
OASIS; voting on OASIS Standards will be held in April 2002.
www.oasis-open.org


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INTERWOVEN UNVEILS NEW ISV DEVELOPER PROGRAM
1/30/2002

Interwoven, Inc. unveiled its new Independent Software Vendor (ISV)
Developer program. The goal of the program is to expand Interwoven's
network of channel partners, education consultants, and implementation
and hosting partners by offering software vendors across dozens of
vertical industries the opportunity to: more easily integrate with
Interwoven's Content Infrastructure suite, take advantage of a developer
support infrastructure, and have their integrated solution tested and
certified by Interwoven before it's made generally available to the
marketplace. Members include Adobe, Arbortext, Asera, Bowstreet, Citrix,
Coast, Computer Associates, DeskNet, Epicentric, Equilibrium,
GlobalSight, Idiom Technologies, Inktomi, iPhrase, MediaBin, Netegrity,
Plumtree, SilverStream, SoftQuad, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, TIBCO,
Uniscape, Venetica, Volantis and Watchfire.
www.interwoven.com/partners/isv


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UNISCAPE INTEGRATES WITH MICROSOFT CONTENT MANAGEMENT SERVER
1/29/2002

Uniscape announced it has integrated its globalization management
system, Uniscape 4.0, with Microsoft Content Management Server 2001. The
complete solution from Microsoft and Uniscape enables content providers
to create, manage, and publish their own multilingual content;
localization managers and partners to localize content for multiple
markets; and IT managers to quickly deploy secure and scalable
multilingual sites worldwide. The integration means that content owners
unfamiliar with the complexities of localizing content can manage the
localization process from within a single system. Corporate localization
teams and service providers can use the vendor management, project
management, and desktop tools of the Uniscape 4.0 globalization
management system to automate the tasks required to localize, review,
approve, and return localized content to Microsoft Content Management
Server. www.uniscape.com


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PERCUSSION UNVEILS RHYTHMYX ACCELERATOR FOR WORD
1/29/2002

Percussion Software announced the immediate availability of the Rhythmyx
Authoring Accelerator for Microsoft Word 2000. This Accelerator is the
second of a series of Rhythmyx Accelerators that enable enterprises to
speed deployment between Rhythmyx Content Manager and other
technologies. The Word Accelerator provides a pre-packaged tool for
interaction between Rhythmyx and Microsoft Word, eliminating the need
for third party application development and support. Key elements of the
Rhythmyx Basic Authoring Accelerator for MS Word 2000 include seamless
interaction, round-tripping support, ability to filter, field
extraction, and in-line system links and images. Through a browser
interface, content contributors can assign metadata such as publishable
date, expiration date, etc. Once metadata has been assigned to the
content, Rhythmyx merges this information into MS Word.
www.percussion.com


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FILENET ANNOUNCES UPDATE TO CONTENT MANAGEMENT APPLICATION FOR ACCOUNTS
PAYABLE
1/29/2002

FileNET Corp. announced general availability of Acenza Payables Version
2.0, an enterprise wide, Web-based content management application that
streamlines the accounts payables approval process, allowing accounting
staff to handle more invoices. The new version offers an improved user
interface, greater scalability, and enhanced out-of-the-box
functionality. With Acenza Payables, invoices presented in paper, fax,
electronic or Web form are captured electronically, filed securely, and
routed for data entry and approval automatically. With its Web browser
interface, the solution enables status checks and payment approvals to
be linked across the enterprise, as well as externally to authorized
business partners and suppliers. In order to facilitate solution
delivery, FileNET is partnering with Impact Innovations Group to provide
systems integration of Acenza Payables to Peoplesoft ERP systems.
Software license pricing is dependent on the customer's actual
deployment requirements, with system pricing starting at less than
$100,000. www.FileNET.com


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TELEKNOWLEDGE LAUNCHES TOTAL-E CONTENT 2.5
1/29/2002

TeleKnowledge announced the availability of Total-e Content 2.5, the
latest version of its out-of-the-box content monetization application.
Key enhancements in Total-e Content 2.5 include real-time rating,
increased partner revenue management functionality, the ability to
manage billing and payment services for multiple resellers within a
single system, and service fulfillment capabilities. Based on
TeleKnowledge's multi-tier architecture, Total-e Content gives digital
media providers advanced scalability to manage millions of subscribers.
Total-e Content enables content owners, aggregators and distributors to
define, track and manage all of their content-based revenue streams.
Media and entertainment companies, content portals and other online
service providers are now able to quickly and easily monetize all forms
of digital content, both directly to subscribers as well as through
channel and syndication partnerships. Total-e Content 2.5 is supported
on Windows NT/2000 and Sun Solaris 2.6/2.7/2.8 platforms and is
commercially available. www.teleknowledge.com


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ZOPE RELEASES ZOPE 2.5 & PYTHON 2.2
1/28/2002

Zope Corporation announced the release of Zope 2.5. Zope enables the
rapid building and deployment of web content. Zope 2.5 includes Zope
Page Templates (ZPT), the new model for dynamically generating pages.
ZPT embraces W3C standards by leveraging namespace attributes to insert
page directives. This approach allows site designers and developers to
work side-by-side, since the interim and final product remains valid
HTML. The 2.5 release also offers built-in session tracking, encrypted
password support and significant performance improvements. Zope
Corporation has just released version 1.2 of its Content Management
Framework (CMF). Python 2.2 was also recently released. www.python.org,
www.zope.com


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DOCUMENTUM ACQUIRES BOXCAR
1/24/2002

Documentum announced that it has acquired privately held Boxcar
Software. Boxcar provides technology for content aggregation and content
distribution. Documentum plans to integrate Boxcar's technology with the
Documentum platform by the second quarter of this year. With this
acquisition, Documentum now provides a comprehensive set of content
creation, personalization, management and delivery capabilities,
including aggregation, application integration, authoring,
collaboration, distribution, transformation and web publishing. The
combination of Documentum and Boxcar's technology will enable companies
to gather all types of content from disparate sources; integrate it with
other enterprise content; manage and personalize the content; then
securely deliver and distribute it, in multiple formats, to multiple
audiences. www.documentum.com


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MEDIAGRIF ACQUIRES FLOW SYSTEMS
1/23/2002

Mediagrif Interactive Technologies Inc. announced that it has purchased
Flow Systems Corporation, a software company specializing in catalogue
content management and cross-media publishing, from Nurun Inc. Terms of
the transaction were not disclosed. Flow Systems' solutions span the
product information lifecycle from acquisition of product data through
catalogue publishing for industrial manufacturers and distributors with
large or complex product lines. Flow Systems solutions allow enterprises
to build and maintain a product information database for all its
catalogue publishing needs including automatic updating of e-commerce
systems, Web, print and CD-ROM catalogues. Mediagrif's content
management technology coupled with Flow Systems' cross-media and printed
catalogue automation expertise, provides customers with an enterprise
wide, product content management and publishing solution.
www.mediagrif.com


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