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  Take a look at this product from Vertex. Then, if you wish, go to vetx.com and go thru all the releases  for more info on their middleware products. Note that 'evolve'  is written in XML, not HTML. XML is leading the leading edge. This is a sideways internet, intranet, e-commerce  play that is backed up by record backlog in bread and butter CTI and TELCO products. In addition, BRIDGENET and NETWEAVE allow the back end to communicate with the storefront...as VETX did for DELL computer for example. But 'evolve' is tne new kid on the block and I think it has significant possibilities. VETX closed today at 1.50, not far from 52wh of 1.62.
  Vertex Announces 'evolve,' the First Extensible Markup Language (XML) Interface for Legacy Systems
  SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Vertex Industries, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VETX - news), a leading systems integration and middleware solutions provider, announced today the availability of ''evolve,'' the first legacy-to-web integration product that uses the Extensible Markup Language (XML) interface. The new product announcement was made at the International Tandem Users Group (ITUG) show in San Jose, CA. 
  Through the use of XML, the emerging standard for describing data on the web, ''evolve'' has the ability to take self-descriptive messages and exchange them with legacy applications in their native form. Traditional messaging middleware requires applications to be concerned with the representation of message data on disparate platforms. Rather than using traditional messaging middleware to access remote applications, ''evolve'' allows front-end applications to benefit from flexible data definition and message population, while permitting legacy applications to work with the native format messages they are accustomed to. 
  '''evolve' is the natural evolution of classic middleware into Web-based computing,'' said Ron Byer, President and CEO of Vertex Industries, Inc. '''evolve' extends your business enterprise to your customers on the web, by reducing your time-to-market for web applications that require interaction with corporate MIS infrastructure,'' continued Byer. 
  ''evolve'' allows web-enabled users in any industry to check inventory availability, track order status, transfer funds and pay bills. It does so by providing the framework for applications that can interact with corporate systems in a straightforward manner. The need for human intervention, redundant data stores, duplicate data keying and lengthy mainframe rewrites is eliminated. 
  Vertex Industries, Inc. is a middleware integration specialist with specific focus on data collection solutions and the integration of E-Commerce applications with existing, computing infrastructures. The company has generated success stories in both the United States and internationally. Vertex customers include AT&T, Credit Lyonnais, Dell Computers, Tenneco Packaging, Bell Atlantic, MCI, and the New Zealand Stock Exchange. 
  SOURCE: Vertex Industries, Inc. |