Vortal provides industry-specific news and information to users' desktops and allows users to customize their views. Vortal mixes in company content to give partners and customers an information destination. With Vortal, nontechnical users can manage and update their sites without experience or knowledge of Extensible Markup Language, HTML or other programming languages. HearMe also launched a turnkey product for VOIP conferencing. ConferenceCreator provides greater control for the user as well as enhanced functions.
Participants can dial out to instantly bring new participants into the conference.
Eliminating the conference operator saves time and money. ConferenceCreator is scheduled for commercial availability next quarter. Version 2.5 of Ingres II, the Islandia, N.Y., company's relational database management system and application development environment, includes improved file management capabilities for larger file sizes, officials said. Ingres Version 2.5 is available now on HP-UX, Solaris, Windows NT and Linux. Support for additional platforms will follow later this year.