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JustSystems knows how to help their user base. They have just set up a new Community for their XMetal enterprise content management solution. Called the XMetal Community Forums, it's a community where partners, customers and their own internal services team can go to get all their questions answered.

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JustSystems, a Japanese software vendor specializing in XML and information management technologies, announced that XMetaL, the company's XML-based software for structured authoring and content collaboration, has been selected as a 2008 KMWorld Trend-Setting Product.

When we talk about the Semantic Web we mean more meta-information hidden in the page code, but derived from the content itself, with the aim of letting Web services and search engines know exactly what's there without having to guess from keywords and tags. XML is one format which can structure content to contain more classification material. RDF is the preferred data model used, which splits content into entities and relationships, and the RDF model most usually utilizes XML to structure content.

JustSystems is continuing its growth strategy to expand across North America and Europe by designing new partnership levels designed to recruit more value-add partners to sell and integrate their software into organizations. Their focus is to recruit experienced vendors and system integrators in the areas of structured authoring and dynamic publishing. JustSystems, as you know, is a provider of document management solutions that implement DITA. So it only makes sense they would be looking for new partnerships with companies experienced in this area. They have defined three new partner participation levels that will enable potential partners to grow their relationship with JustSystems slowly. These include: * Associate - initial commitment and basic support * Authorized - More formalized and predictable sales of JustSystems products * Premier - Designed for system integrators who want to build a solution offering around their technology

Gartner is getting a little more hip naming their reports and JustSystems is one content management vendor benefiting from it. After all, being named a "cool vendor" can't hurt a company can it?

Looking for a content management system that enables to you author and publish DITA-based technical documentation? Take a gander over this way. Canadian vendor, IXIASOFT, have just unwrapped the latest release of their XML-based solution -- DITA CMS Framework 2.1.

Compatibility with DITA 1.1 is one of several interesting improvements bundled-up in this latest push.

Last week we brought you news of a webinar on >DITA in the Enterprise to be chaired today by IBM and JustSystems, in which the companies' co-authored DITA Maturity Model is to be presented. Now we can bring you details on just what the Maturity Model is all about. We're not saying you should slack off and not bother with the Webinar. We're just giving you the option, is all.