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To: ahhaha who wrote (262)	3/9/2000 1:15:00 AM
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An old news item for the record: Object Design© and webMethods Announce Strategic XML Partnership CHICAGO, Nov. 17, 1998 /PRNewswire/ -- (From the XML '98 Show) -- Object Design, Inc. (Nasdaq: ODIS), a leading provider of enterprise and embedded data management solutions, today announced that the company has entered a strategic partnership with webMethods, Inc., a leading provider of XML-based business- to-business e-commerce and integration solutions. This strategic partnership will enable companies everywhere to leverage the power of eXtensible Markup Language (XML) for business-critical applications. XML is a new universal data standard from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Under the agreement, webMethods will integrate Object Design's ObjectStore© database management system with its webMethods B2B products to provide high-availability, continuous operation capabilities. Additionally, this integration provides webMethods B2B with a dynamic repository for the storage and maintenance of XML documents. webMethods B2B, comprising the B2B Integration Server and the B2B Developer, is an XML-based solution that facilitates inter-enterprise integration between ERP applications, Web sites and legacy data sources. webMethods B2B is first to market with its ability to enable secure and scalable inter-enterprise application integration based on XML and standard Internet protocols such as HTTP and SSL. ``We are pleased to partner with Object Design to embed high-performance data management capabilities into webMethods B2B,' says Phillip Merrick, president and CEO of webMethods. ``Together, our technologies offer the industry's most robust and reliable solution for business-to-business application integration between trading partners.' Separately, Object Design will resell webMethods B2B as a connectivity solution for the company's new eXcelon? XML data server, which Object Design announced yesterday at the XML '98 show. eXcelon is a high-performance, highly scalable data server that caches, manages and serves all information to enterprise applications and Web servers as XML. eXcelon can be used as an application cache for existing data sources, or as a complete data management system for new XML-based applications. ``eXcelon and webMethods B2B are an excellent marriage of technology for any company seeking to deploy new enterprise XML applications,' said Larry Alston, vice president of marketing for Object Design. ``Object Design's partnership with webMethods will help usher in a new generation of data-driven XML enterprise and inter-enterprise Web applications.'