COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Nov. 3, 1999

Nov. 3, 1999
Vol. 5, No. 46

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CASCADE SYSTEMS INC.
Cascade, a supplier of asset management and workflow solutions based in Acton, Mass., plans to acquire United Kingdom-based MidSystem Technology Ltd., another provider of workflow management software, in a deal that should close by November's end.

The companies' engineering and marketing staffs will be combined and MidSystem products will be integrated into the Cascade Media Publishing Solution and the Cascade Merchant Publishing Solution.

Among others, MidSystem's software is used at Associated Newspapers in the U.K. and the LOS ANGELES TIMES, both Cascade DataFlow customers. Company leaders noted that a long-standing working relationship and complementary technology make this a good match.

Cascade is on the Web at http://www.cascadenet.com/.

THE COLE PAPERS
There's mayhem awaiting every newspaper that lets its disaster plan get dusty, reminds COLE PAPERS Editor & Publisher David M. Cole in the newsletter's November issue. Whether devastating storm or a regional power outage, every press operation has an Achilles heel, and this year's hurricanes are just echoes of the earthquakes that shook operations a decade ago.

Inside, Correspondent Steven E. Brier reports on preparations by newspapers in Hurricane Floyd's path.

Also inside: Correspondent L. Carol Christopher spots the gathering clouds headed toward newspaper television listings franchise; Correspondent Jay Small describes the bricks that go into web-site shovelware foundations, and Contributor Peter G. Marsh identifies why a system specification needs far attention than a request for proposal (RFP).

For more about the November issue of THE COLE PAPERS, visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

HARLEQUIN INC.
RIP-maker Harlequin has moved its United States headquarters from Cambridge to nearby Waltham, Mass., while its office in Windham, N.H., will remain.

Its new mailing address is Harlequin Inc., 95 Sawyer Rd., Three University Park, Waltham Mass., 02453; its telephone number is (781) 392-1600 and fax (781) 736-1949.

Harlequin continues on the Web at http://www.harlequin.com/.

INFORMATION PRESENTATION TECHNOLOGIES
IPTech, a supplier of production management software based in San Luis Obispo, Calif., has announced that Krips BV, the largest printer of scientific books and magazines in Holland, recently standardized operations on ImpozeIt, its PDF-based imposition software solution.

Because Krips receives work from all over the world, PDF was the printer's standard file format. With a system that includes three computer-to-plate imagesetting systems, it produces more that 600 plates per day for 24 presses.

IPTech is on the Web at http://www.iptech.com/.

MEDIASTREAM INC.
MediaStream, a Philadelphia-based provider of archiving services, has installed a SAVE Library System for text archiving at the BOSTON GLOBE. The GLOBE had previously used MediaStream's library service bureau, SAVEcentral. This new installation gives the GLOBE a fully redundant archival system, newsroom access via browsers, easier library editing and public access via its Web site http://www.boston.com/.

The GLOBE will host the full text of its new stories since 1979. Customers outside of the Boston market can access through MediaStream's service http://www.newslibrary.com/.

Two more newspapers are joining MediaStream's NewsLibrary on-line archiving and document delivery service. The WASHINGTON (D.C.) TIMES and THE PRESS of Atlantic City, N.J., join 70 newspapers from 30 different states and five newspapers in Canada. NewsLibrary offers the public search on any words in the articles, with a $1.95 charge for full-text downloads. As NewsLibrary partners, these newspapers and MediaStream will share all revenue from access to the on-line archives.

MediaStream is on the Web at http://www.krmediastream.com/.

REAL MEDIA
Real Media, a New York-based provider of on-line advertising services and technology to newspapers and other media, is working with Cyber Dialogue [ADD], to implement the Real Media Audience Management System to help web publishers target advertising and understand their audiences.

The system will integrate the company's ad server software, Open Adstream, with Cyber Dialogue's proprietary Internet Customer Acquisition Retention and Up-sell System (ICARUS), a database marketing software.

The turn-key program will allow web publishers to sell advertising based on user profiles generated by the Audience Management System and to track banner clickthrough data. Publishers then can compare their site traffic and visitor demographics to Internet users who participated in Cyber Dialogue's American Internet User Survey (AIUS).

New Jersey Online http://www.nj.com/, based in [ADD] and part of Advance Internet Inc. of [ADD], is the system's first client.

The Audience Management System is being coordinated by Real Media's new Media Services group.

Real Media is on the Web at http://www.realmedia.com/. Cyber Dialogue is at http://www.cyberdialogue.com/.

SYSTEM INTEGRATORS INC.
SII, the Sacramento-based publishing system integrator, has adopted InCopy, the copy-editing tool from Adobe Systems Inc. of San Jose, in its Insiight editorial solution. Previously the company had announced that it would integrate Adobe's InDesign page layout software in its browser-based "Intranet" system.

SII is on the Web at http://www.sii.com/.

UNISYS CORP.
Unisys, a publishing solutions supplier based in Blue Bell, Pa., has announced its e-@ction Enterprise Server ES7000, a family of servers based on Cellular MultiProcessing (CMP) architecture.

The ES7000 is positioned against UNIX/RISC-based servers as a large-scale electronic business computing engine. Its model can match the performance of high-end UNIX/RISC systems at a fraction of the price, the company said, and usher in Microsoft and Intel technology as high-volume system foundations.

Microsoft is collaborating with Unisys on software interface requirements for dynamic partitioning on the future Microsoft Windows Datacenter Server operating system. This will facilitate "servers within a server," executing multiple functions within the same server and enabling resource shifts without interrupting processing, the company said. Partitioning also allows the servers to run UNIX and Windows 2000 in the same cabinet.

Unisys is taking orders for the e-@ction Enterprise Server ES7000 systems for delivery in the first and second quarters of 2000; prices start at less than $100,000.

Unisys is on the Web at http://www.unisys.com/.

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