The Sites that Cry “Wolf” May 5, 2009
Posted by Marko Sillanpää in Content Management.add a comment
The last month has been difficult. Ever since Conflicker (a.k.a. April 1 Virus) shut down the internet, I’ve not been able to do much of anything. (It’s unfortunate that sarcasm doesn’t come across in the written word.) But I wonder if I’m the only one getting tired of the news …
I spent last week in Greece pondering the meaning of knowledge management in the birthplace of Western thought (more on that later) but I thought I might shine a light on something that’s been bugging me.
Oracle Buys Sun – Larry gets MySQL :( April 20, 2009
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After walking away from IBM - Sun agrees to be acquired but Oracle. Sure there is a lot to talk about with Oracle entering into the hardware market but for the thousands of sites today running on MySQL, you now have Oracle lurking in the background. In Oracle’s defense – they have been a reasonable promoter of open source – but we should all watch closely to see how an unrelenting and genetically driven desire to dominate the RDBMS market affects their continued support of the database that the web really runs on.
Open Text Latest Cool but Questionable April 10, 2009
Posted by Lee Dallas in Content Management.Tags: Opent Text, Vizible
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Open Text bought yet another tangential vendor, Vizible. Granted – its cool to look at. For a company so grounded in stuffed shirt ECM I gotta ask – who is going to spend money on this right now. Kas Thomas thinks its a potential refresh to their Artesia DAM.
Maybe it was cheap but I wonder who they think is going to use it? OT has never really been known for startling innovation. The last conference of their’s I attended (which granted was several years ago) was remarkably stuffy. Maybe they’ve loosened up but I doubt it. Back then I couldn’t even find anybody manning the tiny spot given to the then newly acquired Artesia which I thought was a really nice product and a sensible acquisition at the time.
I suppose you could slap Vizible on their DAM offering and make it more interesting but will it really move the needle on sales? I will say that one consumption model that this has a play in is kiosk content management – an oft ignored subcategory populated by niche vendors (NetKey, et.al) and custom integrations. Seems these flashy UI’s do a lot more to draw attention in consumer scenarios than improve productivity in a cubicle.
What’s That Sound April 6, 2009
Posted by Lee Dallas in IBM.Tags: IBM, Sun
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That high pitched whistle is the sound of Sun’s share price falling since the talks with IBM broke down. OK – everybody – now’s you chance to sweep in and save Java (the language not the ticker symbol) and more important to us MySQL from the clutches of the blue meanies.
for the record – I’m not convinced that the deal going through is all bad but the chance to make a Beatles reference was too good to pass up.
Move Over Emily Post, a Big Man in the Mail Server April 2, 2009
Posted by Marko Sillanpää in Content Management, ECM.Tags: email archiving, email etiquite, s1, sourceone
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By the end of an average day I’ve reviewed almost 100 emails. I also contribute almost 40 emails into the problem. That means I get an average of one interruption every four minutes of the day (10 hours). According to some estimates this is below the average of 177 emails sent and received by the average corporate user. But as it is for me, I have a hard time keeping up with what I have. Then you when you consider the corporate and its requirements to maintain emails for all the employees of the company the problem becomes monumental. It is this problem that’s allowed an entire new product line to evolve to tackle the problem, of email archiving. And it is this problem that EMC prepares to tackle with it’s newly announced SourceOne product family.
But I’m not going to talk about the technology. Instead I want to put a flood light on the problem.
One Press Release – 2 Very Different Developments April 1, 2009
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EMC announced in a single press release two very different but equally significant things this week. (more…)
Where Have All the CEVA’s Gone? April 1, 2009
Posted by Marko Sillanpää in Content Management, ECM, Technology.Tags: ceva, csc, Documentum, EMC, firstdoc
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This week I find myself in a unique scenario. And for those of you that know me well, it’s not the fact that I’m visiting New Orleans for business (I visit NoLa for Drago’s chargrilled oysters at least four times each year). It’s that I’m attending a user conference for a solution that was built on top of an ECM platform, specifically CSC (formerly FCG) FirstDoc which is built on EMC’s Documentum platform. As I sit in the room it dawns on me, what happened to all the talk of CEVAs (Content Enabled Vertical Applications)?
Vignette 7.SoWhat March 19, 2009
Posted by Lee Dallas in Content Management.Tags: vignette, WCM
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Saw this press release on the new version of Vignette and suddenly realized – I don’t care. A once influencial product line that sadly won’t matter again until somebody buys them out.
Sun Turning Blue? March 18, 2009
Posted by Lee Dallas in Content Management, IBM.3 comments
Apoligies for the lack of posting – day job has me really busy at the moment but I had to throw this out there. Rumors and stories abound about IBM being in talks to buy Sun. While this is off our normal content management focus it is nevertheless significant. I shudder when I think about the impact of IBM controlling the fate of MySQL. It’s not that Sun has done such a stellar job there but there are so many tidbits of interestng technology that will ultimately get lost in the big Blue catalog.
How Many CMS Admin’s Does it Take to Screw in a Light Bulb? February 17, 2009
Posted by Marko Sillanpää in Content Management.1 comment so far
Three. One to search the repository for an answer, one to have written it so that it was in the repository and one to actually do the job. Or maybe it’s really four.
Ok a REALLY bad joke but it’s just as bad as the regular joke I here from IT groups of companies deploying or that have deployed ECM systems. “Why does it take ’so many people’ to run an ECM system?” In some cases I am sure it is not mentioned as a joke. But for me often the chuckle starts when I see who’s really asking the question.
