Stylus Studio (http://www .stylusstudio.com), the leading provider of XML tools for advanced data integration, has announced that for the first time in history, its employee discount on the Stylus Studio 6 XML Enterprise Edition is being extended to XML developers everywhere through July 31, 2005. You pay the same great price we pay. Not a cent more. But wait; that's not all! Customers who act now can also apply the Stylus Studio Employee Discount on online purchases of Annual Upgrade Protection (AUP) packs for Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Edition, at just $175.50 (USD) per user. Visit the Stylus Studio online shop today at: http://www.styl usstudio.com/buy/.

Stylus Studio today issued a call to the global community of XML developers, to end the oppressive tyranny of pay-per-feature and celebrate their independence from incomplete and over-priced XML IDEs.

Stylus Studio today announced that for the first time in history, its employee discount on the Stylus Studio 6 XML Enterprise Edition is being extended to XML developers everywhere through July 31, 2005.

Agitar says that its solutions are demonstrating the value of automating developer testing as the best way to improve software quality, reduce time to market, and cut software development costs.

Boston Communications Group, Inc. , previously announced that the non-jury trial to consider the Company's unenforcability defense in the patent infringement lawsuit brought by Freedom Wireless, Inc. against the Company commenced in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts on June 7, 2005. On June 13, 2005, the presiding judge suspended the non-jury trial and ordered mediation between the Company and the other co-defendants in the lawsuit and Freedom Wireless, Inc. In the event that the mediation is unsuccessful and the parties are unable to reach a settlement, the non-jury trial is currently scheduled to resume on July 14, 2005 and could last approximately one to two weeks after it commences.

It was in May that a Microsoft program manager on the Internet Explorer development team warned the world that installing Netscape 8.0 could cause IE to render XML files as blank pages on some systems. Now the Netscape 8.0.2 release fixes that XML flaw.

Altova's Unified Modeling Language development tool 'makes visual software design practical for programmers and project managers everywhere,' the company reports. UModel also provides advanced code generation, reverse engineering, and round-tripping functionality with initial support for the Java programming language.

A new software language - a process specification language known as ISO 18629 - should make computers much more useful in manufacturing.

'The next time I lose my car keys, maybe I can just go onto Google and search for them,' speculated futurist Paul Saffo recently. The director of the Institute for the Future was referring to Google Earth, its 'virtual globe' project.

The Wall Street Journal reported it first, then Reuters picked up on the possibility: what if Google is about to eclipse PapPal by introducing its very own online paymnt service?

HiT Software today announced the release of Allora 4.1, the middleware reference for XML to database integration projects. Allora 4.1 is now certified to work with over 20 different databases, from the most common ones such as Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase and MySQL to others used in vertical applications.

VANCOUVER, B.C., June 7, 2005: Bluestream Database Software Corporation (www.bluestream.com) a world leader in XML technology innovation is proud to announce a new release of its flagship product XstreamDB 3.2 native XML database.

Axis2 is taking shape and this M2 release 'is only a glimpse of what is to be expected in the future,' the Apache Foundation reports. Developers with an interest in this project are urged to conctact axis-dev@ws.apache.org.

Microsoft yesterday announced that it is adopting XML as the default file format for the next major version of its Microsoft Office software, currently codenamed 'Office 12.'

Founded in December 2002, software compliance management pioneer Black Duck Software now has a staff of 30 and offers a platform to the market in the form of an information service which it sells as a subscription and already has two dozen customers across the USA and overseas. Doug Levin, president and CEO, speaks with SYS-CON.TV.

Maguma will be releasing version 2.5.0 of Workbench on the first of June and with it will come many expanded abilities to produce scripts, not only enhanced features targeting PHP developers but this time Python developers will find things to be happy about.

GlobusData has developed qxLanguage, which the company says is easier to use 'than any existing tool on the market.' It is designed for use by programmers and lay people alike, through the use of SQL-like constructs for self-describing codes. It is compatible with existing XML standards governed by the W3 Consortium.

IPMonitor is designed to be a sophisticated network monitoring solution that allows network administrators, webmasters, and Internet service providers to monitor any networked device on the Internet, corporate intranet, or TCP/IP LAN and receive alerts immediately via audible alarm, message, e-mail, or third-party software when a connection fails.

A new report from Gartner has found that Linux has driven enough Oracle business to enable the company to pull even with IBM in the worldwide relational database market.

Software professionals embrace XQuery, citing simplified XML data access and transformation.

Gordian Transformation Partnershas formed a strategic partnership with Fuego, a leading provider of agile business process management (BPM) solutions, to provide a comprehensive BPM solution to Gordian clients.

Lenovo Group, the heir to IBM's legendary PC business, is planning its own development center at Big Blue's digs in North Carolina, Lenovo executives said Tuesday. Lenovo, the China-based company that recently took over IBM's PC business, will use part of Blue's Innovation Center in Research Triangle Park, NC to conduct its own research. Lenovo also has research facilities in Japan and throughout China.

'XML doesn't always mean open. You can hide a lot in a file format,' says James Governor, principal analyst at Redmonk. 'OpenDocument represents an opportunity to ensure truly open file formats for productivity applications,' he said in reference to the announcement that OpenDocument has been approved as an OASIS standard.

DataDirect will announce XQuery, which it describes as 'an easily embeddable XQuery implementation for XML applications that need to process both XML and relational data sources,' on Tuesday, May 17.

Dell's plans to hire 2,000 more people in India will increase its total workforce to between 9,000 and 10,000. Although the majority will be part of the company's call centers, Dell said it would hire members for its software development office in Bangalore as well.

XML has become the dominant vehicle for data exchange, but a growing awareness of critical performance issues has prevented widespread deployment of Web Services solutions. Not anymore. Tarari Inc., the award-winning acceleration company, announced today that it has overcome Tarari says its RAX 4 is the industry's only in-silicon and software implementation of Random Access XML. In its latest version, it includes integrated support for the complex features of XML Schema and special SOAP message validation at 10,000 and greater validations per second.

Users, vendors, governments, and researchers from Europe and around the world will gather in Amsterdam on May 24 to examine and discuss advances in e-Business standards at the OASIS Open Standards Day. Sponsored by the international, not-for-profit consortium, OASIS, the event will feature presentations on key OASIS Standards and specifications that are of particular interest to the European community.

IBM has bolstered its Emerging Technologies Toolkit, available through IBM alphaWorks, by adding three new XML development tools to its collection of emerging technologies for developers and early adopters. The tools aim to help developers reduce the manual coding required to create on-demand Web applications that use emerging XML standards and tie into Services Oriented Architectures.

Tim Bray, Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems and co-inventor of XML 1.0 will speak at CSW's sixth XML Summer School on 'Trends & Transients in XML.' The XML Summer School 2005 is being held at Wadham College, University of Oxford, between 24th and 29th July. Highlights include an XSLT Track featuring a 'Hands-on Introduction to XSLT and XSL-FO' and 'XQuery and Advanced XSLT' presented by Bob DuCharme, Dave Pawson, Michael Kay and Jeni Tennison.

Sarvega conducted an independent product security assessment of its XML Guardian Gateway, and reported that 'the management and administration aspects of the most current release of Sarvega's XML Guardian Gateway adheres to security industry best practices.'

When Microsoft dropped XQuery from .NET Framework 2.0 (Whidbey), it hadn't perhaps reckoned with Stylus Studio's mission to support what it calls 'XQuery for All!' Just as the Java community - through their work in JSR 225: An XQuery API for Java - recognizes the importance of XQuery, Stylus Studio wants Redmond to make an about-turn and do the same.

Web services security pioneer Forum Systems on Monday announced plans to add virus protection to its flagship XML Firewall product. Forum Systems Inc., of Salt Lake City, will partner with Computer Associates International Inc. to integrate CA's eTrust anti-virus scanning engine with its Forum XWall Web Services Firewall. The deal paves the way for what is being described as 'industrial-strength protection' against viruses, worms and other malware that can penetrate corporate networks through XML and SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) documents, according to Forum Systems chief executive Wes Swenson. Forum's XWall Web Services Firewall already offers protection against XML attacks according to the WS-I Profile and ensures WSDL Access Control and XML Schema Restriction. With CA's eTrust scanning engine, the company now will add a new module called Forum XAV (XML Antivirus) to filter scan any XML and SOAP document and their file attachment.

Tokyo's Two Space Co., Ltd., has developed the Office Storage Hub, to provide the linking of corporate and office data created in Microsoft Office within a network environment. Official worldwide sales of Office Storage Hub will begin in May 2005. Microsoft Corporation plans worldwide release of its next operating system ('Longhorn') with web support functions and other features in 2006. In response to this, Two Space focused on the popular Microsoft Office (MS- Office) and explored possibilities of allowing its many users to easily convert documents made with the most familiar applications -- Excel, Word, Access, etc. -- to the XML (eXtensible Markup Language) format.

Adobe has created a new public specification, IPTC Core Schema for XMP, designed to ensure the consistency of metadata.

Approximately 40,000 U.S. Army personnel worldwide can now submit their updated financial information online, along with a legally binding digital signature, using Infomosaic's SecureXML Java Applet. The SecureXML Java Applet allows them to access their common access card (CAC) based PKI certificates to create cryptographically secure W3C standard compliant XML signatures.

RLX Technologies Inc, the blade pioneer now in its post-hardware, software-only phase, has moved its headquarters to a converted barn in Old Town Spring, Texas, a snug little place in the throes of preservation north of Houston. The move goes along with the company's new perspective and its latest $9.1 million infusion.

Reactivity is extending enterprise XML Web services infrastructure with its SOA Gateway, the industry's first gateway optimized for SOA deployments in data centers.

Arbortext president says, 'XBRL has great potential to bring tremendous benefits to the financial community.'

The latest version of Reactivity's patent-pending XML operating system is designed to make using Web services easy and practical.

There are many reasons why security professionals and application developers seem to work at cross-purposes when bringing XML Web Services to production. By understanding the key differences in approach and the way to bridge them, organizations can realize significant time-to-market and cost benefits without compromising security and compliance needs.