EMC Buys Documentum. Execs at storage vendor EMC had been hinting for some time that the company was going to become a software player. Well, they accomplished it in one fell swoop by buying Documentu… [CMSWatch Trends and Features]
I was surprised at this acquisition. I’m hoping ECM will sink some cash into Documentum’s QA and support areas which are probably universally underserved among software vendors.
Open Source Moves Beyond Software. Open source is doing for mass innovation what the assembly line did for mass production. The era when collaboration replaces the corporation is coming. By Thomas Goetz from Wired magazine…The Internet is open source’s great enabler, the communications tool that makes massive decentralized projects possible. Intellectual property, on the other hand, is open source’s nemesis: a legal regime that has become so stifling and restrictive that thousands of free-thinking programmers, scientists, designers, engineers, and scholars are desperate to find new ways to create.[Wired News]
Content software scramble ahead?. <CMSWire> This is a good article describing some of the impact of the Documentum acquisition by EMC and how the ECM market is going to be shaping and shifting in the coming months. Future acquisitions by other storage and infrastructure… [cms~wire]
I agree. A good overview and some insight on how it might affect the rest of the market.
Microsoft Moves – Internal Integration of CMS and SharePoint Portal. Announced just today, Microsoft is integrating its Content Management Server and Share Point Portal engineering groups. This is a significant move and reflects more than just a little of the thought, value and strategy that Microsoft is building around content… [cms~wire]
Open-source CMS survey results. Karim Yaici has published the results of the open-source CMS survey he conducted two months ago, as part of his dissertation. There are some interesting results in this, including: General Open Source Software Usage CMS Distribution Organization Sector and Use… [Column Two]
No Zope?! There’s something wrong there, especially with the high percentage of European respondents.
Ten best intranets of 2003. Jakob Nielsen has published the results of their latest Intranet Design Annual, listing their ten best intranets of 2003. To quote: This year’s winning intranet designs emphasized workflow support, self-service content management, and offloading tasks from email to collaboration tools…. [Column Two]
Got the motor back on Dad’s boat last weekend and sailed for the first time in a while. The problem with the motor was that over the summer, the gas had moved in and out of the carb, eventually gumming it up. The guy who worked on it said to run the engine at least once a month for 10 minutes at idle and 10 minutes in gear. He also gave Dad some sort of fuel additive that is supposed to help. Another boat ownership lesson learned.
My son is becoming quite the sailor. He’s a lot more confident walking around the foredeck than he was initially. He’s also been put in charge of winch covers, fenders, and the sail bag so he’s happy about that.