InformationWeek

November 1, 1999

Vendors Serve Up A Smorgasbord Of XML Support

By Alan Radding

endors are quickly building Extensible Markup Language support into new and existing products. The following is a sampling of recent XML product announcements:

Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) introduced the BizTalk JumpStart Kit, which makes it easier for developers to use XML schemas and the Biz-Talk Framework in development projects and existing applications and for electronic-commerce and application integration within and across their companies.

Prophet 21 Inc. (www.p21.com) has submitted wholesale distribution industry-specific XML schemas for the BizTalk.org repository to enable the seamless exchange of business information within the wholesale distribution industry.

Data Junction Corp. (www.datajunction.com) introduced XML Junction, which gives companies the ability to reconcile the semantic differences between data and object definitions for XML and other data formats.

Webb Interactive Services Inc. (www.webb.net) introduced CommunityWare/XML, its product suite rebuilt entirely under XML and aimed at local commerce, customer-support, and enterprise collaboration markets.

New Era of Networks Inc. (www.neonsoft.com) unveiled the NeonAdapter for XML and the NeonAdapter for EDI for use with Neon Integration Server. The products let users integrate XML and EDI-based business-to-business systems with any other application in their enterprises.

Ariba Inc. (www.ariba.com) completed the integration of Commerce XML (cXML) with the Microsoft BizTalk Framework to deliver a complete schema for conducting business-to-business E-commerce transactions.

Inprise Corp. (www.inprise.com) shipped Borland Delphi 5, which includes support for HTML 4 and XML.

Sun-Netscape Alliance (www.iplanet.com/alliance) introduced the iPlanet Commerce Integration Suite of E-commerce application and server software with broad support for XML for cross-company business exchange, and the Java 2 Enterprise Edition development environment.

Novell (www.novell.com) demonstrated DirXML, which extends the capabilities of Novell Directory Services 8. DirXML uses XML to support all data sources including enterprise resource planning systems and meta-directory solutions from other vendors.

Compaq (www.compaq.com) unveiled BusinessBus, an enterprise application integration framework that will use XML as its messaging standard and will provide the ability to exchange XML schemas between the Microsoft BizTalk repository and the BusinessBus Integration Manager.

Lotus Development Corp. (www.lotus.com) announced support for XML in the newest release of Domino, which will let companies leverage XML in their Domino and Notes applications.

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