From The CEO

Dear Customers and Partners,

This is our last LizardTales of 2005, a very interesting year for our company in which we have had major news on the corporate side after merging with our sister company Extensis, as well as exciting product and technology news.

So what has kept us busy the last few months? On the geospatial imaging side, the proposal submitted to OGC by LizardTech, Galdos and other partners for GML in JPEG2000 was finalized and is about to be endorsed by OGC as a standard, so expect our products to support it in coming releases. GML has been long associated with vector data but this standard will bring the advantages of GML into the realm of geospatial imagery and will certainly play a key role in improving imagery interoperability and management. We have also announced that ESRI is integrating MG3 support for the latest version of ArcPad to help both ESRI and LizardTech customers such as the Fire Management Office at the Bureau of Land Management improve their image workflows by reducing the number of actions they need to take to access imagery and decreasing the time it takes to perform mission critical operations - something at which MG3 excels.

On the document imaging side, I want to let you know about some of the activity coming from the Far East during the last month, since there are many interesting things happening there. Our Korean office, the former Janusystem team that joined Celartem in April, has announced that Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, one of the largest insurance companies in Korea, has adopted DjVu as part of a company wide effort to reduce the amount of paper they use. Similarly, our parent company in Japan, Celartem Technology, has announced that, in collaboration with PFU (Fujitsu), they have developed a DjVu-based virtual storage system that has been adopted by Shiseido, one of the largest cosmetic manufacturers in the world, in an effort to reduce the amount of paper being used at their company. Both Samsung and Shiseido recognize the importance of reducing paper use and managing documents to improve the efficiency of organizations and that DjVu is today the best solution for achieving that goal efficiently.

I wish you all a very happy new year and look forward to continue supporting you and providing continuous innovation to help you manage your growing collection of imagery.

Best regards,

Carlos Domingo
President and CEO
Celartem Inc.