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Since Adobe has not chosen to turn Framemaker into a major-league structured content management solution, we thought we’d feature a few vendors who do this kind of product. This post is about Bluestream, a company that describes itself as follows:

Bluestream Database Software Corp. is the world leader in the XML database and XML content management technology. Bluestream’s flag-ship products XDocs DITA enabled content management system and XStreamDB, native XML database, have been embraced by end users, technology partners, OEM’s, and resellers around the world. Bluestream has been successfully selling it’s products and services since 1997 to customers in many verticals including, military, oil and gas, software, manufacturing, healthcare, financial/banking, content management, and E-Learning.

Bluestream is located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Their products include:

• XDocs XML Content Management System
  XDocs is an out-of-the box DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) enabled XML content management system ideal for budget conscious organizations that are looking to maximize content reusability and repurposing. Built with non-technical users in mind, XDocs is a standard-compliant single sourcing solution that enables technical communicators to create, manage and store large volumes of both XML and non-XML content.
• XStreamDB Native XML Database
  XStreamDB 3.2™ is a native XML database server for storage and retrieval of XML documents. Anywhere you find XML you will find XStreamDB, including applications in content management, web publishing and enterprise application integration. It has a transaction-based architecture, support for XQuery with update extensions, XML Schemas, value and full text indexes, resource locking, and WebDAV sharing. It is accessible using a Java API, or the included XStreamDB™ Explorer application for configuration, ad hoc queries, and administration.
• StreamStore Embeddable Record Manager
  StreamStore is a compact, embeddable database engine for direct Java object storage. It combines high performance data access with the reliability of full transaction support into a simple and natural programmer’s model for storing and retrieving Java objects and streams.

Anyone with experiences with this product, we’d invite impressions or comments.