The Carnegie Group Inc has announced that it has released the first phase of the Initiative for Managing Knowledge Assets Technology, and the software is now in beta test: the software is being tested by the four other participants in the Initiative – DEC, Ford Motor Company, Texas Instruments and US West Advanced Technologies Inc – and they are using it to develop knowledge-based applications; the Pittsburg, Pennsylvania-based Carnegie Group says it will license the new technology when the software is thoroughly beta tested.