XML.com: About the XML.com Buyer's Guide

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About the XML.com Buyer's Guide

The XML.com Buyer's Guide exists to serve the implementors and end-users who need quick, centralized access to information on the widest range of available tools, as well as vendors who want to spread information about their products. To give the most comprehensive picture of this emerging market, we have included products in double-digit release alongside those that are not much more than a twinkle in the eye.

But the Guide is not just a product listing. It's also a community-run referral service. Those who have experience with any of these products are encouraged to share their opinions, so that collectively we build up a collection of reviews that highlight the strengths, weaknesses and idiosyncrasies of the tools we use.

Listings

For each product, you'll find a brief description characterizing the nature of the product, along with information on its availability, price, platforms, relevant applications, and reference customers. Each listing has links to relevant Web pages from the vendor and links to writeups that appeared on XML.com or in the Seybold reports.

Our Take

In addition to the facts as we know them, we have included some subjective editorializing on many of the products and their place in the market. We've have labeled this "Our Take," with the name of the person at XML.com who penned the opinion. It is impossible to evaluate any product in a line or two of prose, and, like any opinion, our's are subject to second guessing. We hope that readers will find this XML.com editorializing useful and that those who disagree, will let us know.

Your Takes

To help foster an open-market atmosphere we're inviting readers to share their experiences with these products. At the end of each listing you'll see links to reader feedback and a link for adding your own. We'll do our best to keep this a thoughtful and responsive forum.

Vendor Updates

Not all listings are complete, and only those fields that are populated show up on a listing. We invite vendors to send the information to complete their listing to:

buyersguide@xml.com

Please send us corrections as well as additions. We have made every attempt to be fair, complete, and accurate, but the market moves quickly and try as we may, we can't always keep pace. We ask vendors to please use this direct channel to update and correct the tool listing, rather than the Comments field, which is posted to the public.