What surprised me was that they didn’t work well with CM vendors. Yes, Verity had lost favor to newer technologies. But as part of a suite of Autonomy products, it could offer benefits to any CM platform. But no CM vendors are listed as partners, nor do they make a big deal about working with anyone else. Look at CMIS. It’s all about working together these days and Autonomy was in a good position to do so. That is until they threw down the gauntlet.

Being aligned with another CM by being acquired BY them is expected. But by acquiring a CM these days, Autonomy obviously wants to go it alone. And Interwoven was not the choice I would have made.