Blue Martini Extensions for Dreamweaver UltraDev
(San Mateo, CA) - Extensions that Blue Martini Software, Inc., is delivering to Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 reportedly enable developers to integrate the visual authoring power of Dreamweaver UltraDev with the Blue Martini external customer relationship management (eCRM) application suite. The new extensions enable developers to visually design JavaServer Pages and insert or modify objects and method calls for Blue Martini eCRM applications from within Dreamweaver UltraDev.

Some of the new features: live preview without staging, point-and-click authoring, wizards for JSP template creation, easy drag-and-drop tools, and integration with Blue Martini versioning.

www.bluemartini.com

New Managing Director at General Catalyst
(Boston) - General Catalyst, a private equity firm focused on early-stage investment opportunities and a source of operational and business-building expertise for entrepreneurs, has named David Orfao as a managing director. Most recently CEO of Allaire, Orfao will identify new investment opportunities within the enterprise software sector and help to ensure that General Catalyst portfolio companies are operationally established for rapid growth and success.

www.generalcatalyst.com

UMassOnline Builds Online Educational Platform
(Washington, DC) - Prometheus, a community source course management software developed by George Washington University in Washington, DC., has been selected by UMassOnline to participate in their new dual platform eLearning utility. Based on a ColdFusion application layer, Prometheus will provide course creation and management tools for the five different campuses across the University of Massachusetts system.

www.UMassOnline.net

FAO Site Relaunched with ColdFusion, JRun
(Boston / San Francisco) - According to Mindseye, Inc., a privately held Internet solutions company, toy retailer FAO Schwarz has relaunched its site, which Mindseye redesigned using Macromedia ColdFusion 5 and JRun 3.1.

Designed for simplicity and usability, the site features personalization, giving the consumer various options exclusive to the Web site including a view of order status, history, personal occasion reminders, and gift suggestions. It has an intuitive checkout process to make online purchasing more efficient and truly user-friendly and a custom e-mail marketing tool for direct e-mail marketing campaigns and customer tracking.

www.fao.com
www.mindseye.com
www.macromedia.com

Macromedia Flash Player 5 Shipping with Windows XP
(Redmond, WA / San Francisco) - Macromedia Flash Player 5 will be included with all versions of the Microsoft Windows XP operating system, the next major version of the Windows operating system.

www.macromedia.com

SYS-CON Media, Group Intelligence in Alliance
(Montvale, NJ) - SYS-CON Media and Group Intelligence have announced a strategic alliance in support of the fastest-growing Web-infrastructure market, WebSphere.

The companies will jointly deliver a full range of print, event, online, and digital services, creating the first information resource and infrastructure (InfoStructure) of the WebSphere marketplace.

WebSphere Developer's Journal, the newest i-technology publication from SYS-CON Media, will be published monthly starting in November.

www.sys-con.com
www.groupintelligence.com

SYS-CON Hailed Again by Inc Magazine
(Montvale, NJ) - SYS-CON Media, publisher of CFDJ and other i-technology magazines and a producer of i-technology developer conferences, has been named one of America's entrepreneurial growth leaders by Inc magazine, which recently released its annual list of the nation's 500 fastest-growing privately owned companies.

"We are delighted to be recognized once again as the fastest-growing publishing company in America," said Fuat Kircaali, founder and CEO of SYS-CON Media. The company was first honored by Inc in 1999.

Over the past five years, through 2000, SYS-CON has increased sales by 1,072%, giving it a ranking of 278 among Inc's top 500. The firm was the only company in the publishing industry, and one of only 19 corporations headquartered in New Jersey, to make this year's list.

SYS-CON executives will accept the Inc 500 award next June at a reception held by New Mexico Governor Gary E. Johnson and Inc magazine in Albuquerque.

www.sys-con.com

SYS-CON Media Launches Web Services Journal
(Montvale, NJ) - SYS-CON Media has debuted its premier issue of Web Services Journal, the first print and online magazine devoted exclusively to the newest and most pervasive computing paradigm since the arrival of the Web itself.

The premier issue features articles from some of the best-informed developers, analysts, and executives in the i-technology world. This collector's issue includes a "CEO Round Table Discussion" led by executives and visionaries like David Litwack, CEO of Silverstream, Barry Morris, CEO of Iona, David Clarke, CEO of Cape Clear, Simon Phipps of Sun Microsystems, and Tyler Jewell of BEA Systems, among others.

www.sys-con.com/webservices

YesSoftware Introduces CodeCharge 2.0
(San Francisco, CA) - YesSoftware is shipping version 2.0 of CodeCharge, a Rapid Web Application Development Tool that allows developers and enthusiasts of all calibers to create database-enabled multiplatform Web applications with minimal effort.

CodeCharge 2.0 introduces a wide range of new features aimed at improving usability, functionality, adaptability, and compatibility with a wide range of development and server products, and ships with 15 examples of pre-built Web applications including an online bookstore, club portal, yellow pages, employee directory, task management system, etc.

www.YesSoftware.com

SYS-CON Events Moving to Javits Center in 2002
(Montvale, NJ) - SYS-CON Events, Inc., will relocate its East Coast events to the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City in 2002. Web Services Edge 2002 East-International Web Services Conference & Expo and JDJEdge 2002-International Java Developer Conference & Expo will take place June 24-27, 2002. SYS-CON's East Coast events will complement the Technology Exchange Week New York - TECHXNY - a weeklong showcase for the most dynamic business technology players and products in the world.

"We look forward to coming back to New York City for the third year in a row and plan to double our exhibit floor by moving to the Jacob Javits Convention Center," said Grisha Davida, vice president of business development at SYS-CON Media. "This will allow us to host Java, XML, .Net, and all related technologies under our Web services canopy."

"We will open the Call for Papers for next year's conference on November 30, 2001," according to Cathy Walters, vice president of SYS-CON Events.

www.sys-con.com