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Current Opportunities I fMq-- A. illtt llliilt)i Branch Managers Asst. Branch Managers Commercial Lenders GLOBt FILE PHOTO Interleaf, under CEO Jaime Eilertson, aggressively pushed Extensible Markup Language, a new way to get data onto the Web. Portfolio Managers Credit Analysts Interleaf decided to plunge into Extensible Markup Language. XML has come to be seen as a far better technology for putting material into Web pages and making it accessible to many different types of devices.

a Vk Send your resume to: (Please reference position when applying). Citizens Bank, Human Resources, 28 State Street, 13th Floor, Boston, MA 02109 FAX: (617) 725-5595 EMAIL: majobscitizensbank.com rial into Web pages and making it accessible to many different types of devices, including wireless phones and Palm Pilots. "We bet the entire company on XML," Eilertson said last year. "We did a bunch of analysis, but it was a guess and we guessed year Interleaf rolled out a product called BladeRunner that converts material written in Microsoft Word to XML, and a second product that sends XML-language data to wireless devices. But while it did dazzling things on the stock-performance list, the company also shows up in a less-desirable neighborhood of The Globe 100 survey: Its 11.9 percent drop in net income during 1999, to a full-year loss of nearly $4.7 million as it poured resources into developing the XML product, landed it at number eight on the list of the 10 worst-performing Bay State companies based on year-to-year percentage change in net income.

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