The Center for Information-Development Management announces the 4th Annual DITA Europe Conference
November 17-18, 2008, in Munich, Germany.

You can contribute!

The CIDM and Dr. JoAnn Hackos ask you to consider bringing your best practices to the upcoming DITA Europe conference.

We invite you to share your experiences in content management strategies, DITA implementation, DITA tools, topic-based authoring, and introducing new practices into your organizations.

X-Pubs Conference, London, June 23, 2008 — Suite Solutions today announced that it will accept the leadership role in supporting PDF publishing functionality provided by the DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT). The FO plug-in, initially developed and supported by Idiom, currently facilitates PDF generation of DITA XML documents using the XSL-FO formatting standard.

Affordable New SaaS Environment for XML Authoring, Content Management, and Single-Source Publishing, Based on Alfresco Open Source CMS Platform

I am pleased to announce the first milestone of the DITA Open Platform
version 1.0.0

http://www.dita-op.org/

This milestone is a test release in order to see if there is interest
in the DITA community for what the DITA Open Platform project plans to
offer. It is also a mean to collect suggestions and ideas from the
community.

The goal of this project is to provide the DITA community with a free
and easy-to-deploy DITA oriented production platform. It is targeted

Concluding a partnership that has lasted over 15 years, XyEnterprise, provider of XML-based content management systems has announced that it has brought XSystems into the fold permanently through acquisition. The acquisition will result in the creation of a new business unit focusing on editorial tools development, standards expertise and consulting services and a new set of tools for the Contenta product suite.