(September 25, 2002) - Three veteran entrepreneurs have f launched Swingtide, a new software company whose aim is to protect, measure, and maximize companies' Quality of Business amid the proliferation of XML.

(January 22, 2003) - OAGI, the most experienced and widely implemented XML business language standards group in the world, recently joined the four International de jure Standards Organizations in a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Electronic Business. Founding members of the MoU i...

(March 26, 2003) - Veridocs' XMLdocs Version 1, a hosted XML document authoring and management system, is now available. For the release, Veridocs has added a flexible new 'Template Designer' feature not available on the product’s beta version. XMLdocs Version 1 is available at http://...

(June 11, 2003) - Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003, part of the Microsoft Office System, has been reinvented to support a wide range of capabilities for building XML-based, data-driven Web sites, while retaining ease of use. FrontPage 2003 will be the first commercially available, fully...

(Darmstadt, Germany) - The growth of e-business and the World Wide Web is creating a resurgence in the significance of mainframes. But to enjoy their benefits, users and developers need expanded functionality and direct integration with the Web. Software AG meets these requirements wit...

(Redmond, WA) - As part of the ongoing Microsoft .NET strategy, Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of two new tools that integrate the power and efficiency of XML Web services and the familiar computing environment of Office XP. Both the Office XP Web Services Toolkit and the S...

(May 23, 2002) - Software AG, Inc., a pioneer in XML technologies, has announced the general availability of XML Mediator, a tool for building XML information exchange hubs. XML Mediator manages XML interactions that discover relevant information and uses that information to trigger be...

The SALT Forum, a group of companies with a shared goal of accelerating the use of speech technologies in multimodal and telephony systems, has contributed the Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) specification to the World Wide Web Consortium. The SALT Forum has asked the W3C Multi...

Now that the newly XML-enabled version of Microsoft Office, code-named 'Office 11,' is in its first official beta release, XML-J Industry Newsletter went straight to Tim Bray, co-inventor of eXtensible Markup Language, and asked for his exclusive views on this improvement in what Micro...

(January 22, 2003) - HiT Software Inc. and Altova recently announced a new product integration between Altova's XMLSPY 5 and HiT Software's winAllora Xpress, a bi-directional data mapping utility that facilitates conversion of XML and relational data. When used together, the two produc...

(March 26, 2003) - Microsoft's participation in a W3C Web Services Choreography Working Group held earlier this month baffled the W3C twice: once when Microsoft representatives (Alan Brown and Greg Merredith) attended the group, despite prior signals that MS would not attend, and then ...

(June 18, 2003) - Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) has begun the distribution of the DataPower XS40 XML Security Gateway and the DataPower XA35 XML Accelerator to meet the demand for XML-aware networking devices in Japan for the deployment of Web services and XML applications.

(St. Paul, MN) - Lawson Software went public on Friday, December 7, offering 14 million shares of its common stock at a price of $14 per share. On its first day of trading on Nasdaq under the symbol 'LWSN,' the stock rose 13 percent by midday.

IXIASOFT, the leader in native XML database technology, and Altova Inc., the leader in XML development tools, announce the availability of the XML Spy integration kit. The free package, downloadable from IXIASOFT's Web site, enables the widespread XML Spy user community to leverage TEX...

(May 23, 2002) - Altova Inc., the provider of XML Spy 4.3 Suite, and XML Global Technologies, Inc., an XML middleware company, have launched XML Integration Workbench, a powerful and cost-effective alternative to solutions offered by the large integration vendors. The XML Integration W...

(August 21, 2002) - Speaking to developers in Canada this week, after a four-year hiatus from speaking publicly north of the border, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates appropriately made the crossing of boundaries one of the themes of his remarks.

(October 24, 2002) - Progress Software Corporation and eXcelon Corporation have signed a definitive agreement allowing Progress to acquire eXcelon in an all-cash transaction for $3.19 per share, a total of approximately $24 million.

(January 22, 2003) - Propylon has released PropelX v2.0, the world's first data integration platform based on XML pipeline transformation technology. PropelX uses XML to radically simplify the task of integrating content and data systems and takes the scalability, fault tolerance and h...

(April 8, 2003) – XMLSPY 5 Release 4 is now available from Altova. Presently, organizations are engaging in the development of customized XML content editing and data-entry applications which help increase the reusability of corporate information assets, resulting in greater productivi...

(June 18, 2003) - SandCherry has released its AppRun VXML, an open, VoiceXML (VXML) 2.0 standard-based browser which can easily integrate with speech recognition and text-to-speech (TTS) elements from leading speech vendors. At only $80 per port, AppRun VXML offers enterprises and serv...

(Boston, MA) –The OASIS Customer Information Quality (CIQ) Technical Committee announced that it has accepted the submission of CRML, the XML vocabulary specification that defines customer relationships. Originally developed by MSI Business Solutions Pty. Ltd., CRML provides an open, a...

(March 11, 2002) - OASIS members have formed the OASIS XML Common Biometric Format (XCBF) Technical Committee to provide a standard XML schema for biometrics. XCBF will describe information that verifies identity based on human characteristics such as DNA, fingerprints, iris scans, and...

(May 30, 2002) - Altova, Inc.has announced the release of the XML Spy 4.4 Suite, a comprehensive product line of developer tools for advanced XML application development, consisting of the XML Spy 4.4 Integrated Development Environment (IDE), the XML Spy 4.4 XSLT Designer, and the XML ...

(August 22, 2002) - In the latest fiscal year, XyEnterprise's software revenue increased more than 37 percent. For the company as a whole, revenue grew 16 percent over the prior year. The company also announced that it has achieved operating profitability in the first quarter of its cu...

(October 24, 2002) - With the proliferation of XML Web services traffic, data security continues to be a corporate concern. XML Web services are so easy to use that much of the SOAP traffic across a corporate network may be unknown - and possibly unsanctioned - traffic. 'Because Web s...

(January 22, 2003) - Members of the OASIS standards body are collaborating to address a key challenge in distributed directory services and data sharing - establishing a common identification scheme that can be used across all domains, applications, and transport protocols. The OASIS E...

(April 23, 2003) - Version 4 of Software AG, Inc.'s Natural 4GL development platform for mainframes now supports the creation and processing XML documents. This allows developers to bring mainframe applications into the future by extending them directly to the Internet, the Web, and We...

(June 18, 2003) - Altova showcased their XML development tools - including a sneak preview of the new XMLSPY plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET - at Microsoft's TechEd 2003. The new integration features XMLSPY's powerful XML editing views and development utilities directly access...

(Santa Clara, CA) – Sun Microsystems, Inc., announced the immediate availability of its Java XML Pack, a quick and easy way for developers to get all the latest XML and Web services technologies for the Java platform. Sun Microsystems has helped drive the definition and development of ...

(March 20, 2002) - OASIS members have formed the OASIS XML Common Biometric Format (XCBF) Technical Committee to provide a standard XML schema for biometrics. XCBF will describe information that verifies identity based on human characteristics such as DNA, fingerprints, iris scans, and...

AmberPointTM, Inc. has introduced AmberPoint Management FoundationTM, the first product of a comprehensive suite of management solutions for XML Web applications. AmberPoint Management Foundation transforms Web service-based systems into production-ready assets, making them easy to mon...

(August 22, 2002) - Tarius Interactive, a pharmaceutical knowledge management system based on XML architecture, has introduced the next generation of its Tarius Interactive search engine, which enables database users to search for phrases, synonyms, and keywords in an even more user-fr...

(October 24, 2002) - Altova Inc.'s AUTHENTIC 5 is available now as a placeholder control for the newly released Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 (CMS 2002). AUTHENTIC 5 is a standards-based, browser-enabled document editor that puts business content directly in XML format throu...

(February 3, 2003) - Veridocs is offering XMLdocs, an XML authoring and document management system, at no cost to single subscribers. XMLdocs Beta Version is available free for a limited time at http://my.xmldocs.com/register. XMLdocs Version 1, slated for release in March 2003, will...

(April 23, 2003) - XML Professional Publisher Version 7.2, the latest release of XyEnterprise's publishing software, contains new features to enhance the creation, deployment, and support of XML publishing environments. A standards-based composition, transformation and rendering softwa...

(June 24, 2003) -The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the SOAP Version 1.2 Recommendation, consisting of the SOAP Version 1.2 Primer, the SOAP Version 1.2 Messaging Framework, SOAP Version 1.2 Adjuncts, and the SOAP Version 1.2 Specification Assertions and Test Collection. ...