*************************************************************** ****************** WELCOME TO SGML NEWSWIRE ******************* *************************************************************** * * * To subscribe, send mail to sgmlinfo@avalanche.com * * * * (Please pass along to interested colleagues) * * * *************************************************************** SGML HITS INFORMATIONWEEK... AGAIN ================================== (A newswire message sent on 23 June already announced this article, but no details of its contents were provided. Below are some excerpts.) InformationWEEK, "Electronic Document Management; The 21st Century Mail Sorter; EDM systems are getting more complex -- and more useful," Michael Csenger, 21 June 1993. "[Electronic Document Management] EDM vendors have divided around two basic approaches. A growing handful of vendors -- the most visible are Adobe, Documentum, Information Dimensions, Interleaf, and SoftSolutions -- offer packaged families of applications. Other vendors -- including Verity, Avalanche Development, and Fischer International Systems -- offer core products and key peripheral applications that users can freely integrate and customize.... Tomorrow's EDM systems, predict analysts, will operate across all network, platform, and applications lines. By hooking into organizations' disparate information resources, document management systems promise open environments that will knock down the walls among inadvertent pockets of ad hoc, departmentalized growth. Meanwhile, EDM systems today still confuse users by the different ways they interpet an emerging standard known as Standard Generalized Markup Language...." This article also presents Gartner Group's statistics on the future of EDM, and discusses Mead Data Central's plans for SGML for its Lexis and Nexis on-line news services. SGML COMPARISON: INTERLEAF AND FRAME ==================================== "SGML Targets Publishers," a story fully dedicated to SGML, appears in the August 1993 issue of Workstation News. It was written by the staff at WN. The article describes the paradigm shift from format-driven to content-driven document management systems, and explores the differences between Interleaf's "strict-adherence"-to-SGML products and Frame Technologies' "user-friendly" SGML products. ************************************************************** * SGML NEWSWIRE LIST MANAGER * * * * Linda Turner * * Corporate Communications * * Avalanche * * 947 Walnut Street * * Boulder, CO 80302 * * linda@avalanche.com * * (303) 449-5032 * * (303) 449-3246 (fax) * **************************************************************