Press and Awards - Speeding IBM Technology to You Big Blue launches big push into XML A week after Oracle announced a big XML push IBM threw its weight behind the standard, launching yesterday its own XML Web site, making available 10 free XML Java applications, and demonstrating a Java-based PGML viewer it is building with Adobe. Time To Get Serious About Intranets Nineteen ninety-nine promises to be the year things get truly serious in intranet development. Out are trials, toe-dips and zero-accountability projects. In are full-scale deployments, (metaphorical) leaps in the ocean and bean-counter attention to Internet and intranet revenue generation and, by extension, ROI. A markup language for talking browsers? When mature, SpeechML will let Web authors write content for speech-enabled browsers using simple markup tags. Conversational access could broaden Web access from automobiles and telephones and facilitate Web access for the visually impaired. The language, SpeechML, is posted to IBM's alphaWorks site for technologies in progress. IBM is soliciting customer feedback on it. IBM's alphaWorks: Thinking outside the blue box How does an $80 billion company retool its product development pipeline to meet the requirements of the fast-paced Internet market? If dedicating all of nine full-time staffers to the task doesn't seem adequate, the tactic nonetheless seems to have paid off for IBM. . IBM Gets Developer Input on Raw Code Trying to act less like a lumbering giant and more like an agile startup, IBM uses its tiny alphaWorks division to quickly steer software out of its research labs and into the market. IBM posts XML for Java tool on site The computer company's tool, which enables developers to parse and create Extensible Markup Language documents, is now available for download on its alphaWorks Web site. IBM uses the alphaWorks site to display emerging technologies in the form of limited trial versions. IBM Offers Free Commercial License of XML tool for Java   The parser is designed to help developers parse, process, and create XML documents. Previously limited to a 90 day trial offer, developers can now use and incorporate IBM's XML parser in their development work. The offering will be available for download from IBM's alphaWorks Website www.alphaWorks.ibm.com. IBM Releases Free XML Tools   IBM, which previously made a big splash releasing a Java-based XML parser on its alphaWorks site, released nine more tools. It also launched its own XML information site, at www.ibm.com/xml.