Amy Newman

Enterprise interaction management software vendor Bluestone Software Inc. (BLSW), Monday released Bluestone Universal Business Server for TeB v7.0, its pure Java application server deployment engine. The Bluestone Universal Business Server is the heart of the company’s flagship product, Sapphire/Web, and its integration server, Bluestone XML Suite, as well as being the foundation of its newest […]

Publishing software tools vendor Quark Inc. and Extensibility Inc., a vendor specialized in providing XML schemas for enabling technologies, this week reached a software bundling agreement. With this formation of this alliance, customers that purchase avenue.quark, from Quark will receive a trial version of XML Authority, Extensibility’s XML schema creation, conversion, and management solution. Avenue.quark […]

FileMaker Inc. Monday released FileMaker Developer 5, a tool aimed at database developers creating powerful FileMaker Pro solutions for workgroups, the Web or as royalty-free runtime applications. FileMaker Developer 5 carries a suggested retail price of $499. It contains FileMaker Developer Tool, XML support, and support for data standards, including FileMaker ODBC and JDBC drivers. […]

Macromedia, Inc. recently launched Macromedia Exchange for Dreamweaver, a Web destination for the more than 500,000 developers using Macromedia Dreamweaver. The site is a feature of the company’s recently launched Macromedia Membership Center, a centralized location for customer interests and information. The Macromedia (MACR) Exchange for Dreamweaver contains more than 100 free downloadable extensions created […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. this week began shipping Forte for Java, Community Edition 1.0, an integrated development environment for the Java 2 Platform. Forte for Java, Community Edition is based completely on open standards. The software aims to offer an extensible, integrated, cross-platform development environment to enable the rapid development of dot-com applications. It is available […]

Microsoft Corp. has released a preview version of its BizTalk Server 2000. Building on the BizTalk initiative announced last year, this preview release provides the next step in Microsoft’s (MSFT) comprehensive solution for Internet application integration using XML, a statement released by the company said. Internet application integration embraces a single integration methodology for traditional […]

E-business infrastructure software vendor Versant Corp. , Monday released the Versant Extensible Markup Language Toolkit. VXML Toolkit allows users to import and export data from a Versant (VSNT) database into XML. The product is targeted at developers using XML for dynamic information interchange and Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) for business logic tiers to enable them […]

XML delivery solutions vendor, infoShark and Accelr8 Technology Corp. Wednesday announced a cooperative bundling and marketing agreement. Accelr8 Technology seeks to help organizations preserve their investment in legacy VMS systems. inoShark specializes in XML-based data delivery solutions for e-businesses. The two companies will begin shipping product bundles of infoShark’s XMLShark and Accelr8’s (ACLY) XML for […]

Document capture technology software vendor Paravision Imaging Inc. Monday rolled out a new-generation XML content capture and creation solution for the XML content management market. Called PageGenie XMLCapture Architecture, Paravision Imaging’s product will offer a set of comprehensive XML content management tools that provide intuitive and easy-to-use XML content creation, publishing, and maintenance. With enterprises […]

SilverStream Software Inc. (SSSW) this week bought eObject, a software developer specializing in advanced rules-based personalization technologies. SilverStream has agreed to acquire eObject for a purchase price of $23 million in SilverStream common stock. It is also obligated to make an additional payment of $5 million of SilverStream common stock and/or cash based on the […]

Earlier this week, e-commerce infrastructure solutions provider Netegrity Inc. (NETE) announced that SiteMinder 4.0 will support and extend the Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE). SiteMinder provides enterprises with a scalable and reliable platform for centrally securing and managing e-commerce portals and their affiliates. SiteMinder 4.0’s support for J2EE will provide enterprises with a centralized […]

XMLSolutions Corp. this week unveiled Schema Central 1.0, a product designed to enable enterprises to dynamically access XML Schemas and DTDs, the information models for XML documents. XMLSolutions develops strategic business-to-business, XML-based products and services. Schema Central aims to decrease redundant development efforts and speed the time required to implement XML-based systems by providing a […]