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About the Free Standards Group

The Free Standards Group is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated
to accelerating the use and acceptance of free and open source software by
developing and promoting standards.

360Commerce empowers retailers to
achieve profitable differentiation by enabling a superior shopping
experience and providing a lower total cost of ownership and rapid
time to ROI.

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SolarMetric is a global company founded by MIT alumni that creates
enterprise development products leveraging Sun's Java development language. Kodo JDO is actively tested and supported
on leading relational databases, application servers, and integrated
development environments. During Rightmer's fourteen years in retail systems
development, he has worked with many large department store, mass
merchant , specialty, and e-commerce retailers. Their applications include Point-of-Sale, Back Office,
Inventory Management, Central Office, Returns Management and Workforce
Management.
On the Net 360Commerce site: http://www.

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At the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo,
the Free Standards Group (FSG), a nonprofit organization dedicated to
developing and promoting open source software standards, today announced
that its OpenPrinting workgroup has released two new specifications that
will enhance the interaction of applications and printers and will help
achieve the goal of a standardized print environment in *nix environments.) The implementation work is
being maintained in a SourceForge project that can be found at
http://sf. Supported by leaders in the IT industry as well as
the open source development community, the Free Standards Group fulfills a
critical need to have common behavioral specifications, tools and ABIs
across Linux platforms.m.

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org/. Version 1.0 of the interface focuses on basic print
service objects and operations that are likely to be used by more common
applications.

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The interface is designed to be print service-independent, so applications
using this interface can work with any print service that supports it.

Interested parties can find out more about the OpenPrinting workgroup and
its teams by visiting http://www.

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Based in Southern
California, Beyond Browsing provides a full range of development services
from requirements analysis to systems delivery for Fortune 1000 enterprise
clients. There they can become a
contributor to the workgroup and/or a member of the Free Standards Group .

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"Our customers are increasingly demanding a full range of professional
services around our core product, Kodo JDO," said Neelan Choksi, President
of SolarMetric.

About SolarMetric, Inc. Over 325 customers in all industries use Kodo JDO
to handle their object persistence.

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We are impressed with Beyond Browsing's track
record and excited to be partnered with Beyond Browsing to further deliver
on the Kodo JDO value proposition of improved developer productivity,
greater code quality, and increasing returns on investment to our clients.
The two specifications -- Print Application Programming Interface (PAPI)
Version 1.).

About 360Commerce

360Commerce 's proven and flexible store and workforce management
applications are running in more of the world 's leading retailers than
any comparable Java solution.

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SolarMetric Corporate SiteBeyond Browsing Corporate Site

"It 's an ideal partnership for both of us -- SolarMetric are leaders in the
field of OR mapping with over 325 customers using Kodo JDO and Beyond
Browsing has the experience and resources to provide their customers with
expert JAVA/JDO/J2EE solutions," said Tim Stapleton, chief executive
officer of Beyond Browsing

About Beyond Browsing

Beyond Browsing is a custom software application development company
specializing in the full life-cycle development of enterprise systems and
commercial web solutions using Java/J2EE technology.), Solaris LP, and CUPS (libcups.
Rightmer will provide an overview of the architectural models used
to integrate retail channels including discussions on best practices,
implementation considerations, standards and infrastructure
requirements.

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Business Editors/High-Tech Editors

AUSTIN, Texas----Jerry Rightmer,
chief technology officer of 360Commerce, a leading provider of
Java-based store and workforce optimization software, will present a
session on a mission-critical topic for retailers entitled
Multi-Channel Implementation Models at the IBM Store Systems User
Group Conference and Exposition, on Monday, May 23 at 3:15 p ., KB Toys, FedEx Kinko's, and
Rite Aid.

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Beyond Browsing
recently completed the development and implementation of an enterprise
production management system for one of the major Hollywood studios . He also often addresses technical issues for various trade
and high tech media, as well as frequently speaking at industry
events.

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"Beyond Browsing has the enterprise experience with JDO to
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PRESS RELEASE SolarMetric and Beyond Browsing Announce Partnership

Kodo JDO is SolarMetric's implementation of
Sun's Java Data Objects standard.

The Print Application Programming Interface provides an application
programming interface with C language bindings for applications to interact
with a print service.freestandards. Using real-world examples, Rightmer will review the
benefits many retailers are experiencing today as a result of adopting
a multi-channel implementation model such as using the web as an
extension of the store to provide a superior shopping experience for
customers.

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PRESS RELEASE The Free Standards Group Announces Two New OpenPrinting Specifications

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include the Linux Standard Base (LSB), OpenI18N, LANANA and the new
Accessibility Workgroup.
Rightmer leads 360Commerce's product and technology strategy and
direction.360Commerce.com

IBM Store Systems User Group site:
http: //www.

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SolarMetric, makers of Kodo JDO, the leading
standards-based, enterprise-quality object / relational mapping tool,
announced a partnership with Beyond Browsing today to provide additional
resources for customers seeking professional services. In
addition to the company's US office in Long Beach, California, Beyond
Browsing operates a highly skilled offshore development facility in
Bulgaria to reduce overall development costs. As a member of the IXRetail committee since its inception,
Rightmer is an active participant in the organization that is defining
the emerging standards for intercommunication between retail
applications. 360Commerce's applications embody the best-practices
functionality of customers such as Apple, Build-A-Bear Workshop,
Circuit City, The Home Depot, Gap Inc.

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The Free Standards Group (FSG) OpenPrinting Job Ticket Application
Programming Interface (JTAPI) provides an abstract interface for
applications to read, edit, and write document processing job tickets
(defined outside this specification).ibmstoresystemsug.org

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SolarMetric is headquartered in Austin,
Texas. In
the process of developing this specification, the interface has been
implemented on top of rfc-1179 (the defacto standard network print
protocol), IPP (the emerging standard network print protocol, used by CUPS
and others.

360Commerce Retail Technology Expert to Speak on Multi-Channel Implementation Models; IBM Store Systems User Group Conference Hosts Multi -Channel Retailing Ses

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For more information, contact
Marcus Edwardes at 310-570-7799.freestandards . This specification also defines C language bindings of this abstract
object model (including standard header files).

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SolarMetric gives back to the Java community by actively participating on
the JDO 2 and EJB 3 specification teams. SolarMetric's products enable
application developers to focus on their application logic rather than on
deployment-specific details.org.

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