Open Text to Buy Gauss. The cash acquisition is valued at $11 million and is expected to close during the fourth calendar quarter. [eWEEK Technology News]
Month: August 2003
From the Amazon Web Services newsletter #2…
Jeff Barr recently spoke at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference and
the Applied XML Conference. If you were unable to attend, you can find
some great online summaries here:
http://www.camworld.com/archives/001226.html
http://www.sellsbrothers.com/spout/#The_Killer_App_for_Web_Services
http://www.neopoleon.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx/40c488e8-c87a-4faa-9ecd-53046e9f74f5
http://www.neopoleon.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx/0de9bf3e-837a-4f5a-bd2b-b3dce222d646
Vignette Enhances Portal Functionality. Vignette Corp. announced enhancements to its flagship portal product, Vignette Application Portal, including enhanced team collaboration functionality that enables customers to participate in information-sharing and persistent collaboration environments within their organizations. [Gilbane Report News]
Stellent Buys Ancept. Conent management vendors extends video management offerings with purchase. [eWEEK Technology News]
MIT’s Open-Course Project. From Ho Chi Minh City to Nashville, Tennessee, students are flocking to MIT’s new program to post about 2,000 classes on the Web, for free. Meet the global geeks getting an MIT education, open-source style. By David Diamond of Wired magazine. [Wired News]
Groupware goes head to head. Good to see that the Good Ole Domino Versus Exchange Rivalry isn’t dead. The authors of this particular head-to-head picked Domino.
We should also mention that many companies are showing an impressive return on investment with Lotus Domino and we’re not surprised. It features a more consistent framework than Exchange, its common toolkits are more tightly integrated, and above all it’s a much better platform for developing applications. Quickplace was also our preferred application for sharing information among small teams. We were able to move around Quickplace much easier and it only costs $89 per user. ZDNet Aug 25 2003 6:40PM ET [Moreover – Knowledge management news]
IBM’s Portal Newsletter says that the WebSphere Portal 5.0 Reviews are out…
- ComputerWorld: IBM Boosts Portal for Collaboration
- InformationWeek: IBM Launches WebSphere Portal 5
- CRN: IBM to Update Portal with Document Management, Collaboration Technology
- Internetnews.com: IBM Refreshes WebSphere Portal Software
- Informationweek.com: Collaboration is moving out of its silo and into the heart of companies’ infrastructures
- Line56: IBM Previews New Portal
This is from the SearchDomino newsletter archive…
NEW IBM TOOLS FORTIFY IM | eWEEK
IBM has released the IBM Community Tools suite. It combines the IBM
MQ Event Broker, IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web services running
under WebSphere Application Server, Apache and DB2. The tools can be
used to locate experts, start impromptu discussions and alert and
survey large groups of people in real time.
>>READ the full story:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1216378,00.asp
MORE INFO:
Featured Topic: Lotus Instant Messaging
http://searchdomino.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid4_gci905368,00.html
Article: Study predicts enterprise IM boom
http://searchdomino.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid4_gci906195,00.html
10 tips for driving innovation by managing knowledge. Megan Salch has published a list of 10 tips for driving innovation by managing knowledge, drawn from a report published by the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC)…. [Column Two]