Day Leads the Charge Driving JSR 170 Standard for Content Management; Groundbreaking Standard Now Available in Public Review; Day CTO Leads Industry Expert Group.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BASEL, Switzerland & IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 2004 Day Software (SWX SWX Swiss Exchange (trademark of SWX Swiss Exchange) SWX SolidWorks (3D solid modeling CAD software) SWX Splitter / Wave Division Multiplexer :DAYN), a leading provider of global content management software, today announced that the industry expert group, which the company is leading, has placed in public review the specification request for a groundbreaking new industry standard, called JSR JSR Java Specification Request JSR J Sargeant Reynolds Community College (Virginia) JSR Journal of Sedimentary Research JSR Jump to Subroutine (6502 processor instruction) 170. JSR 170, which has been developed according to the Java Community Process Sun's system for allowing third parties to submit requests for new features to Java. JCP is a formal process that must be adhered to, and fees are involved. In 1999, Sun submitted Java to the ECMA standards body, but withdrew its J2SE specification later in the year. (JCP See Java Community Process. JCP - Java Community Process ), will fundamentally improve the interoperability between content repositories and applications, allowing developers to work with a homogenous API for all content repositories. Most importantly, the JSR 170 standard will prevent the dangers of proprietary vendor lock in by ensuring that companies can easily manage content across the large-scale enterprise. Day has long been an innovator in the content management industry with its virtual repository technology and its flagship ECM (1) (Enterprise Change Management) See version control and configuration management. (2) (Error Correcting Mode) A Group 3 fax capability that can test for errors within a row of pixels and request retransmission. software Communique. Day has now taken an industry-wide leadership role in developing and implementing a standard that will help the whole content management industry to grow and mature. Day's CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. , David Nuescheler, has lead the JSR 170 initiative by chairing a global industry expert group since its inception. Apache, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , SAP, BEA Systems and Oracle all serve as members of expert group for JSR 170. Other leading industry participants include, Documentum Inc., Filenet Corp., and Vignette. "Content repositories are becoming a key element in the software infrastructure of global companies and complex organizations. Infrastructure however can only be successful when it is based on standards," said Nuescheler. "So far this has been missing in the content management industry which has been characterized by a confusing plethora of proprietary repository technologies. The goal of JSR 170 is to change this." "Day is proud to contribute with our technology vision to the evolution of our industry and bring content management out of chaos and confusion, and into simplicity and efficiency for customers," said Michael Moppert, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and chairman of Day Software. "JSR 170 has the potential to become as relevant as other groundbreaking industry standards and play a similar role in the world of unstructured data such as SQL did in the world of databases." The standardization request is now available for public review from http://www.jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/review/jsr170/. The public review closes on July 19, 2004. About Day (www.day.com) Day is a leading provider of integrated content, portal and digital asset management software. Day's technology Communique offers a comprehensive, rapidly deployable framework to unify and manage all digital business data, systems, applications and processes through the Web. Communique's content-centric architecture, and its innovative ContentBus, turns the entire business into a virtual repository, bringing together content from any system, regardless of location, language or platform. Day is an international company, founded in 1993, and listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange (SWX:DAYN) since April 2000. Day's customers are some of the largest global corporations and include Audi, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Post World Net, General Electric, Intercontinental Hotels Group InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) (LSE: IHG NYSE: IHG) is a multinational company which operates several hotel brands. The largest hotel company by number of rooms (556,000 as of March 2007 [1]), its headquarters are in Windsor just outside Greater London and , McDonald's, UBS and Volkswagen. |
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