Comments on: Adobe Acquires Day http://bigmenoncontent.com/2010/07/29/adobe-acquires-day/ 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: ECM Quotes of the week « Adam Deane http://bigmenoncontent.com/2010/07/29/adobe-acquires-day/#comment-554 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:27:03 +0000 https://bmoc.wordpress.com/?p=1166#comment-554 [...] Quotes of the week On the Acquisition of Day Software by Adobe – Marko Sillanpää For the first time since IBM acquired FileNet back in 2006, a major [...]

]]> By: Lee Dallas http://bigmenoncontent.com/2010/07/29/adobe-acquires-day/#comment-531 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:35:09 +0000 https://bmoc.wordpress.com/?p=1166#comment-531 I have to confess I don’t know Day that well. Doesn’t mean I don’t have opinions though.:)

I have always been impressed with Day’s dedication and contributions to JSR and find it interesting that those efforts never seemed to translate into overwhelming market success.

In terms of impact I think this does more potential long term damage to Alfresco than anybody else directly. It would not make sense to leave the other Adobe offerings with embedded ECM capability on Alfresco. Using tech you own makes the most sense unless there is a compelling technical reason not to do so. I am also curious to see the longer term impacts to Fatwire and other WCMS given Adobe’s relative strength in web experience and the Omniture acquisition.

]]> By: Peter Monks http://bigmenoncontent.com/2010/07/29/adobe-acquires-day/#comment-530 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:37:48 +0000 https://bmoc.wordpress.com/?p=1166#comment-530 Brian, it would be a rather abrupt turn for Day to transition from being a WCMS to being a Sharepoint competitor. Yes the underlying repository technology is probably up to the challenge but the editorial UI/UX for a WCMS is vastly different to that for a document management / team collaboration system, and Day have demonstrated next to no interest in the latter use case to date.

]]> By: bdelacretaz http://bigmenoncontent.com/2010/07/29/adobe-acquires-day/#comment-529 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:59:52 +0000 https://bmoc.wordpress.com/?p=1166#comment-529 Day’s platform not prepared to work with snippets of XML content, really? You might want to have a closer look at what Apache Jackrabbit and Sling (on which our products are based) offer in this area.

We might not push XML functionality today as we’re not big fans of that, but we’re IMHO very well prepared to handle that if the need arises.

]]> By: Brian Shin http://bigmenoncontent.com/2010/07/29/adobe-acquires-day/#comment-528 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:51:24 +0000 https://bmoc.wordpress.com/?p=1166#comment-528 Adobe announced it would acquire Day Software. According to my experience with Adobe, I believe Adobe will definitely commoditize it as a shrink-wrapped and high volume product. Since Adobe is the defecto portable web documents, this may rival Microsoft’s Sharepoint and will ultimately threaten Sharepoint’s success. Also, if Adobe plays its cards well, Adobe’s new move will eventually dampen Alfresco’s potential prospects as well. If I were running a small business, I would prefer the familiar, affordable and well-running Adobe than a clumsy and bloated Sharepoint or Alfresco’s customization overhead for my document management needs. Will it become the next Microsoft Office?

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