Japan's JustSystems has announced plans to discuss the evolving role of XML at the XML '07 Conference and Exposition. And you might want to see it, because the company's making some very tall statements about the development of our favorite little markup language (the eXtensible kind, of course).
To watch the fireworks and partake of the bubbly, pop in at the Marriott Copley in Boston from December 3-5 -- just days after Gilbane Boston takes place.
Might as well make the most of the frigid East in dead of winter, yeah?

By uniting IBM's DB2 9 Viper data server and FileNet P8 with its xfy and XMetal offerings, JustSystem hopes to unify content and data views within the enterprise.
VP Paul Wlodarczyk of solutions consulting at JustSystem explains, IBM covers Web services with FileNet P8, and XML data with the DB2 9 Viper data server. With xfy and XMetaL, we can leverage content from each of those sources to help developers rapidly deliver the unified view that business users want."
Guess this means less tabbing back and forth for us. If all goes as well as planned, the solution will also:
JustSystems is currently appearing as a Diamond Partner for IBM's Information On Demand 2007 conference. Its offering is targeted to financial services, big pharma and life science, high-tech and manufacturing industries, if only because these sectors boast the same issues other enterprises have except with unique security, compliance and data issues.