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The article looks at some vendor-hosted and Web-based systems that offer alternatives to traditional newsroom installations. Several vendors today offer software as a service, essentially the same thing as the first Application Service Provider programs. In these environments, little or no software is installed at a newspaper, which not only speeds system conversions and upgrades, but also does away with most of a paper's troubleshooting and maintenance.

This section offers news briefs on the publishing industry. "The Eagle," the daily paper of Evening Post Publishing Co. in Texas, has launched its newly designed Web site employing the Content Management Platform of MediaSpan. Meanwhile, an eight-unit, 30,000-copy-per-hour singlewide Orient Super press that has increased advertisers' calls for color pages has been installed by Waccamaw Publishers Inc. RBP Chemical Technology Inc. has also introduced its concentrated chemistry package and precision delivery system called Concept 21 5 Star.