Comments on: Open Text Buys Document Viewer http://bigmenoncontent.com/2008/07/03/open-text-buys-document-viewer/ Opinions and discussions on content management by two of the biggest guys in the business.(measured by weight not volume) Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:33:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Nokia N95: Multimedia.all the Way | Blog talks-us http://bigmenoncontent.com/2008/07/03/open-text-buys-document-viewer/#comment-204 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:34:52 +0000 http://bmoc.wordpress.com/?p=115#comment-204 [...] Open Text Buys Document Viewer « Big Men On Content [...]

]]> By: Lee Dallas http://bigmenoncontent.com/2008/07/03/open-text-buys-document-viewer/#comment-127 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:29:39 +0000 http://bmoc.wordpress.com/?p=115#comment-127 I suspected as much but I nevertheless think they would better serve their customer if they just bought one of the vendors and made it a part of the product – Oh but wait – didn’t EMC buy one already- Pix Tools – part of the Captiva acquisition – strange that didn’t make it in- or maybe it did and I just missed it in the 250 page tutorial I went through – doesn’t do office formats though – just images but embedding that would still be better than treating it as just another 3rd party.

]]> By: Pie http://bigmenoncontent.com/2008/07/03/open-text-buys-document-viewer/#comment-126 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:00:17 +0000 http://bmoc.wordpress.com/?p=115#comment-126 To answer a question for Lee, there were contractual issues around getting Informative Graphics’ Brava! into TaskSpace. While I have no specifics I can guess, having been through the process before on a different product, that the price that IG was going to get per license was most likely too low based upon the volume expectations.

There I times I miss being a product manager, and then there are times I don’t.

-Pie

]]> By: msillanp http://bigmenoncontent.com/2008/07/03/open-text-buys-document-viewer/#comment-125 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:30:25 +0000 http://bmoc.wordpress.com/?p=115#comment-125 While some of the extension can be very powerful the problem is that it’s all tied into the generic viewing capabilities of multiple file formats. See one of the often missed components that Oracle acquired with Stellent was the intellectual property of the Mastersoft filters. The little secret is that there’s only one vendor of content transformation filters and anyone that wants access to them now talks to Oracle. So while Open Text may get some interesting technology, they me be at the mercy of Oracle when they go to use it. That’s why most ECM vendors are happy to let the smaller vendors manage the relationship with Oracle or better still just work with the Adobe PDF format.

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