Responding to Jeroen’s 2012 Surprises December 30, 2011
Posted by Lee Dallas in Technology.Tags: Apps, FreeCell, Google, GoogleDocs, IBM
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EMC IIG Chief Architect Jeroen VanRotterdam suggests five things that may surprise us in 2012. It was a very thought provoking post and you should check it out. I had a few ideas in response but it was a little long for the comments so I thought I would post them here.
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Thoughts on the Ethics of Retention Policies October 10, 2011
Posted by Lee Dallas in Content Management, ECM, Records Management.Tags: Archives and Records Management, Google, Records Management
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Several weeks ago Ron Miller wrote a piece about a potential smoking gun email in the Google/Oracle Java patent suit where he cites Cyrus Mistry’s 2010 AIIM keynote. As Ron recalls, Mistry declared “Everyone gets access to all data and keep it forever.” I was at the same event and my reaction at the time was similar to Miller’s. I found the position quaint and condescendingly naive. While I don’t recall a specific conversation I am sure that at some point I said – “eventually this will come back to bite them” and it appears that is what has happened.
There are several ordinary reasons why we implement records management and retention policies. Compliance with global privacy regulations for example. But in all cases we are trained in ECM that every piece of electronic data is potentially electronic evidence and you should purge it at the earliest opportunity. This is how I have advised customers for years and in the industry we build whole programs around it. The problem is this approach ignores one simple thing that is lost in the process. The truth. (more…)
GooglePlus and the Diet Coke Rocket Car September 17, 2011
Posted by Lee Dallas in Collaboration, Content Management, ECM, Technology.Tags: Facebook, Google, Google Wave, GooglePlus, LinkedIn, twitter
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I am ashamed that this is my first and probably only post on GooglePlus. Not since the Diet Coke and Mentos thing or Google Wave (hint hint) have so many people wanted to try something they saw on the internet. Yet last week I took an informal completely unscientific poll on Twitter and though the sample was small the verdict was unanimous. Nobody cared about G+ anymore. All of the thrill was gone. I took the poll because I found myself looking for a reason to keep at it and couldn’t think of one. Despite my personal bandwagonning it does not look like G+will supplant my comfortable social triumvirate of Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn. (more…)
Rumors of Autonomy and Microsoft. Say What? September 30, 2009
Posted by Marko Sillanpää in Content Management, ECM.Tags: Autonomy, dell, Google, HP, Microsoft, Open Text
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A friend sent me a link to a Reuters article speculating the acquisition of Autonomy by Microsoft. At first glance one says, “Not so fast, what about FAST!” But hey, “not so fast?”
Autonomy is an interesting combination of survivors of the internet boom. Not following the Computer Associates model like Open Text appears to be doing by buying competing companies. This year both acquired WCM vendors, Autonomy acquired Interwoven and Open Text acquired Vignette, but Open Text already had one in Red Dot. That’s why I’m a little confused with the Microsoft rumor.
Open Text Ripe for Takeover, Eh? March 23, 2008
Posted by Marko Sillanpää in Content Management.Tags: Content Management, Google, Hyland, Microsoft, Open Text, SAP
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When a local paper starts to speculate on acquisitions, I’ve learned to take notice. You see those of us in the industry have our contacts usually with either an NDA or FrieNDA in place. But papers have theirs sources, some friend of a friend to a journalist.
So the article over the weekend caught my attention. Was this some journalist with a hot tip trying to make his mark or a piece to beef up the Saturday business section? I read the article from the Waterloo Record hoping to discover a tip but discovering it was more filler. But it did bring up an interesting candidate, though the author didn’t see it himself. So while Lee looked at where Open Text was today, I thought I’d look at where they might go. I loved to see the quote, “Representatives of … said their company doesn’t comment on acquisition speculations.” But we can speculate. So let me look at the two motioned in the article and one that I can’t believe that wasn’t.
