News Release

Draper, Utah – October 26, 2006– NextPage® today announced the availability of a white paper on Office Open XML (OpenXML) from Ecma International. The OpenXML initiative was instigated to provide the community with an open standard for word-processing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets that can be freely implemented by multiple applications on multiple platforms.

“Over the last year we have worked extensively within Ecma TC45 to make significant changes for the good of the community,” said Tom Ngo, CTO of NextPage and editor of the Office Open XML Overview. “We ensured that the standard discloses everything that vendors require to implement it interoperably, that it is independent of anything proprietary, and that developers can start small instead of having to implement the entire specification.”

The white paper provides the community with a light overview of OpenXML. It serves as a guide to the proposed standard, stating its purposes, summarizing its properties and structure, and providing extensive cross references to the full specification.

OpenXML was designed from inception to represent all documents, both existing and new, in XML. The transition to an XML-based standard allows documents to be used with a broad range of:

OpenXML also addresses long-term preservation for the billions of documents currently encoded in the binary formats originally defined by Microsoft Corporation since it is designed to support all of the features in those formats.

OpenXML supports internationalization features necessary for several dozen languages as diverse as Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Mongolian, Russian, and Turkish. It includes enough information for assistive technologies to process documents properly. It also includes a thorough specification for spreadsheet formulas, which many firms use to run mission-critical transaction systems. It is modular and compact; OpenXML files that are on average 25% smaller, and at times up to 75% smaller, than their binary counterparts.

NextPage is a member of Ecma International’s Technical Committee 45 (TC45), which includes representatives from Apple, Barclays Capital, BP, The British Library, Essilor, Intel, Microsoft, Novell, Statoil, Toshiba, and the United States Library of Congress. TC45 has been tasked with the work to standardize OpenXML

The full OpenXML whitepaper is available at http://www.ecma-international.org/news/index.html#recnews.

Since its inception in 1961, Ecma International (Ecma) has developed standards for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Consumer Electronics (CE).

For over forty years Ecma has actively contributed to world-wide standardization in information technology and telecommunications. More than 365 Ecma Standards and almost 90 Technical Reports of high quality have been published, more than 2/3 of which have also been adopted as International Standards and/or Technical Reports. Publications can be downloaded free of charge from http://www.ecma-international.org/.

NextPage delivers powerful document tracking services that enable enterprises to manage and control the risk of Microsoft Office documents on the desktop. With the patent pending document tracking technology enterprises can securely track the more than 7.5 Billion Office documents that are sent as e-mail attachments, stored on users’ desktops and removable media or saved to centralized servers. The NextPage Document Retention service increases document retention compliance, as the only product that lets organizations apply retention policies to versions on the desktop by purging working copies and posting final versions to a central server for archival and lifecycle management. The NextPage products reduce the cost of document eDiscovery, prevent wasted time tracking down document versions and reduce the risk of documents. For more information, visit www.nextpage.com or email us at npinfo@nextpage.com.

Eric Anderson
Coltrin & Associates (for NextPage)
212-221-1616 ext. 117
eric_anderson@coltrin.com

Jenel Stevens
Coltrin & Associates (for NextPage)
212-221-1616 ext. 125
jenel_stevens@coltrin.com