(November 21, 2002) - XIS Lite, eXcelon Corporation's new version of its native XML database management system, eXtensible Information Server (XIS) offers the same functionality as XIS, but scaled to smaller projects, with a lower cost to match. XIS Lite is designed to enable customers with less extensive data requirements to achieve the benefits of dynamic, extensible, and highly reliable data management at a lower cost of ownership.

With XIS Lite, companies can now fully and cost effectively harness the extensibility and flexibility of XML to create, audit and continuously change applications that store and manipulate limited amounts of XML data.

XIS Lite is a fully functional version of eXcelon's eXtensible Information Server (XIS), providing extensible, schema-agnostic XML storage and document and subdocument data manipulation support (e.g. updates, inserts, XPath/XQuery, XSLT transformations). However, the XIS Lite database is limited to 500 megabytes and fail-over is not available. XIS Lite includes Stylus Studio -- a $395 value --- and supports the XIS add-ons for Verity full-text search and Data Junction.

XIS Lite provides additional ROI to developers and architects who deploy applications on XIS Lite by providing them with the ability to re-deploy those applications on full-scale XIS without requiring modifications to application-level code. This migration path allows companies to efficiently scale their XML data management solution as their Web services mature and their data storage needs grow. As with the full-scale XIS, XIS Lite also facilitates XML-based interoperability across .NET and J2EE environments, providing support for XML business documents as the foundation of composite business applications that integrate systems based on both J2EE and .NET architectures.

XIS Lite is available immediately starting at $995 per developer seat.