Amy Newman

XML e-content software provider Arbortext Tuesday announced the scheduled release of both modular Epic 3.0 and Adept 9.0 for mid-December. Epic and Adept are software packages that support XML users’ information creation, publication and personalization needs. With this release, Epic and Adept will have a common interface. Arbortext sees this release as an opportunity for […]

Netmanage Inc.’s new Salvo product line now supports XML-based communication between various business applications. The product uses component-based business logic to create new information from data stored in corporate systems. Salvo, an application development framework for building enterprise-level extranet applications, has two components: Salvo Server and Salvo Impact. The product is particularly designed for projects […]

A recent alliance between Intraware and Object Design adds Object Design’s eXcelon product line to Intraware’s intraware.shop. Intraware customers can now demo and purchase eXcelon online, and receive the product electronically. EXcelon is an XML-based application development environment for building and deploying e-business applications. It includes a suite of graphical development tools, connectivity tools to […]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week recommended two new specifications. XSL Transformations (XSLT) and XML Path Language (XPath) represent further agreement on technologies to enable the standardization of transformation and styled presentation of XML documents. XSLT enables one XML document to be transformed into another based on an XSL stylesheet. XSLT is designed […]

Corel Corp. Monday introduced Corel Linux OS and revealed that they were developing Linux versions for its flagship products, WordPerfect and CorelDraw, scheduled for release in the second quarter of 2000. Corel Linux is Corel’s attempt to bring Linux to the average user’s desktop. According to Michael Cowpland, president and CEO of Corel (CORL), Corel […]

Allaire Corp. Monday announced that a new version of HomeSite 4.5, will ship next month. Improvements in this new version of the popular HTML editing tool include a flexible project management system, scriptable deployment, and easy integration with the latest Web technologies. New features in HomeSite 4.5 include collapsible code, function insight and split window […]

Sun Microsystems announced this week that it will release two new Java tools — Java Blend 2.0 and Java Message Queue 1.0 by the end of the year. These tools are aimed at reducing the costs and amount of time required to create applications that run on Web sites. Sun (SUNW) anticipates that these tools […]

Oracle Corp. and Red Hat this week joined forces to deliver a new version of Red Hat’s Linux operating system optimized to meet the growing needs of e-business ventures. This new version will offer increased high availability, clustering and Java support, and is thus intended to accelerate the adoption of Linux within e-business and enterprise […]

Tashcom Software this week released ASP-Edit version 2.05 for Windows, an Active Server Pages scripting and HTML editor that provides full Visual Basic script support. Tashcom is billing ASP-Edit v.2.05 as a tool for all levels of Web authoring. Its offers many “wizard”-driven routines for less-experienced users that can be turned off if so desired. […]

The Apache Software Foundation this week unveiled the Apache XML Project, an effort dedicated to developing a common set of open source Internet tools, and thus a set of common Internet standards, for XML. Several vendors, including IBM Corp. (IBM) and Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW) have donated technology to the effort. The Apache XML Project […]