Welcome to our last newsletter of 2004. This month we're including a quick overview of events at DeltaXML in 2004, and listing some of the customers who've joined us. This has been an exciting year for DeltaXML, we've seen more and more of the industry coming across the problems we identified five years ago, and what was once an interesting niche technology has now become a core component of many mainstream solutions. This year, we've made significant headway in the financial services sector, in telecoms, in legal and technical publishing, in IT and in government,  with applications including content management and legal publishing, network topology management, B2B auditing, regulatory compliance validation, regression testing, configuration management, business intelligence, internationalization and many more. We've also continued to pioneer innovative solutions, releasing the industry's only comprehensive XML synchronization engine, DeltaXML Sync.

This success has only been  possible because of the vision of our early customers, and their enthusiasm for our products. To all of you who have seen in DeltaXML a solution to your problems, who have explained to us what features you would like to see and who have provided feedback as we've developed innovative technologies - particularly in synchronization - we are indebted. As we prepare for what promises to be a rapid expansion in 2005, may we extend to all members of the DeltaXML community our best wishes for the Christmas season and for the New Year? Thank you all for your support.

Do you have a question about managing change in an XML environment? Please do get in touch if there's anything you'd like to suggest or discuss. If you'd like to try DeltaXML technology for yourself, evaluation downloads of the DeltaXML Core API, together with full documentation and online demos, are always available at our website: www.deltaxml.com

    - The DeltaXML Team.

Contents

In this newsletter:

• Recent DeltaXML Customers
• DeltaXML Customers - 2004
• Highlights of the Year
• Diary Dates

Customer Focus: Recent DeltaXML Customers

Recent customers include:

• Capgemini Telecom Media & Networks (France) (visit)
• BP Exploration Operating Company Limited (UK - renewal) (visit)
• IBM (USA - renewal) (visit)

We are glad that such major clients should think highly enough of our products that they are choosing to renew their contracts. We'll continue to develop and improve our products in order to remain the first choice for change management in XML.

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DeltaXML Customers - 2004

Here are some of the customers who joined us in 2004.

European Commission Capgemini Telecom Media & Networks France Ring-Zero Software Inc. Kinnect Limited (a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyd's of London) Idiom Technologies Inc. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Broadlane Inc. Avinor AS Thomson Ria

Inland Revenue UK Docufy GmbH Arena Solutions Inc. nterra e-stategy & e-solution gmbh Contrado Technologies B.V. National Information Infrastructure Enterprise Promotion Association (Taiwan) CSW Group Ltd. Metatomix Inc.  Daimler Chrysler Freightliner

Highlights of the Year

Just some of the events that kept us busy this year.

• Compare Live - free online comparison service launched at http://compare.deltaxml.com/
• Building XML pipelines in Java - without XSLT - discussed in our January newsletter
• Performance tuning XML pipelines - in February
• Managing multilingual content - internationalization / localization - in February and the paper we presented in April
• Jon Udell at InfoWorld ranked DeltaXML "stunningly cool"
• We launched DeltaXML Sync 1.0  in April at XML Europe 2004 in Amsterdam
• We released DeltaXML Core 2.8, including a proof-of-concept Swing sample application as well as (fully compatible) enhancements to the kernel
• Using XML forms (including XForms) to build UIs for change control was discussed in May and presented in Washington in November
• Configuring DeltaXML to handle mixed ordered and orderless data within a single element was discussed in June
• We sponsored the XML Open and Vignette conferences
• A maintenance release, DeltaXML Core 2.8.2, became a speed demon - 400Mb in under 5 minutes
• More reviews in September placed us ahead of the field
• We presented papers at XML 2004 in Washington on XML Forms for Conflict Resolution and Powering XML Pipelines with JAXP - see October and November

That's just the work we published - in 2005 you'll begin to see fruits of more R&D work that's been going on behind the scenes. The list above also excludes the work that has been perhaps most important to us over the last year - developing the close partnerships that are allowing us to move from being a pure technology vendor to offering comprehensive XML change control solutions. Thank you to all those concerned.

We hope that 2004 was successful for you also, and that 2005 will be still more so.

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Diary Dates

http://www.xtech-conference.org/ - XTech 2005, Amsterdam, 24-27 May 2005

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Please let us know whether this newsletter has been useful to you, we welcome any suggestions about information you'd like discussed in future editions. We'll be back next month with another edition.

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