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Altova, Inc. Altova and X-Hive Corporation to Simplify XML Document Authoring and Management. New Partnership enables support for creating and managing XML documents using AUTHENTIC 5 and X-Hive/DB BEVERLY, Mass., January 8, 2003 - X-Hive Corporation, a leading provider of native XML databases, and Altova Inc., the provider of XMLSPY, the world's leading XML development tool with over 700,000 registered users, today announced a technical partnership. Users will now be able to edit XML data stored in X-Hive/DB using XMLSPY 5 from Altova. Additionally, end users will be able to utilize AUTHENTIC 5 from Altova to create XML documents and store them in X-Hive/DB, without having to know XML. AUTHENTIC 5 is a web enabled word processor environment that empowers business users to easily capture ideas and content directly into XML documents while X-Hive/DB is a powerful native XML database designed for software developers who require advanced XML data processing and storage within their applications. Together the two products facilitate development of end user friendly XML driven content applications. "Altova and X-Hive share a common vision of unlocking corporate content through the use of standards-based XML document authoring tools integrated with XML enabled content repository systems via standards-based interfaces and protocols: WebDAV, HTTP, and FTP", said Alexander Falk, President & CEO of Altova Inc. "Our two powerful complementary products enable business users to create and manage XML content for subsequent retrieval or transformation; an ideal solution for a variety of industry applications including web publishing or knowledge management." Some of the benefits of the AUTHENTIC 5 and X-Hive/DB integration are, • Non-technical users can author XML documents using AUTHENTIC 5 and store them in X-Hive/DB, reducing the need for technical intervention • XML documents created with AUTHENTIC 5 and stored in X-Hive/DB can be queried using standard XQuery syntax • An open and flexible architecture for building managing XML based content management solutions • Seamless integration of XML content creation and management based on SOAP, FTP, WebDAV, or HTTP • Built in AUTHENTIC 5 Templates for editing various industry standard XML document formats including DocBook, NITF, NewsML, P3P, DITA, and many others. "Altova's AUTHENTIC 5 provides a powerful-yet easy-to-use, XML authoring environment, and allowing business users to edit XML documents through user-friendly interfaces which abstract away the complexities of the underlying XML syntax, and seamlessly save critical business content into X-Hive/DB", said Jeroen van Rotterdam, CEO of X-Hive Corporation. "The integrated solution can be easily customized to meet the requirements of any enterprise XML content management system or application." About X-Hive Corporation X-Hive Corporation develops and markets X-Hive/DB, a high performance native XML database. Software developers use X-Hive/DB in a variety of applications including content management, data analysis, catalog management and news syndication. XHive/ DB supports all major XML standards and has a Java application programming interface with methods for storing, querying and publishing XML data. X-Hive Corporation cooperates worldwide with software vendors, system integrators and consultants in delivering X-Hive/DB applications. X-Hive Corporation is an official supplier of the Renault F1 team who uses X-Hive/DB in their car analysis software. For more information: http://www.x-hive.com. About Altova, Inc. Altova is a leading provider of XML software development tools headquartered in Vienna, Austria with offices in Beverly, MA. The privately held company was founded in 1992 and has been actively involved in the XML market from the early conception of XML. Altova's XMLSPY is the leading choice of all Fortune 500 and Global 1,000 companies, with over 700,000 registered users worldwide. Altova is a member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Web Services Interoperability Consortium (WS-I). Visit Altova on the Web at http://www.altova.com ### Altova, XMLSPY, STYLEVISION, AUTHENTIC and AXAD are trademarks of Altova GmbH registered in numerous countries. The names of and reference to companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. For more information contact: X-Hive Corporation Irsan Widarto +31 10 281 80 80 [email protected] Larry Kim Marketing Director Altova, Inc Tel: 978-816-1612 [email protected] |