A couple of weeks ago Kapow Technologies and StrikeIron announced a new partnership to deliver web data services in a pay-as-you-go model. The promises of service oriented architecture are well known and broadly adopted, especially among large enterprise and government IT departments. I was able to sit in on a demo on the offering and thought... Continue Reading →
ECM, So Easy Even a COBOL Programmer Can Do It
I've been in a lot of meetings recently where I've found myself in a conundrum. As you've seen from a lot of my posts I proclaim that content management is an easy thing to understand. I really do believe that it's true. But then I'm confronted with developers that want to build their own content... Continue Reading →
Lost Knowledge – DM Partner’s Essence
I had the incredible fortune last month to find myself in the hearts of two very different ancient civilizations. I hinted in a previous article to my trip to Acropolis of Athens, the very birth place of Western Thought. A planned trip with all the expected turns and a few surprises. My second journey found me climbing... Continue Reading →
Oracle Buys Sun – Larry gets MySQL :(
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... Continue Reading →
Where Have All the CEVA’s Gone?
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... Continue Reading →
When will ECM Go Mobile?
I like to say, "Nokia is a river in Finland, not a company from Japan." Few people know that mobile phone technology and smart phones got their start in the late '80s in Finland (and Sweden). I remember having lunch in the mid-90s with my cousin in a cafe in Helsinki when he mentioned needing to... Continue Reading →
Is it Content Management or Storage?
Alan Pelz-Share, of CMS Watch, points out that EMC's is still about storage and Brice Dunwoodie, of CMS Wire, shows that EMC is moving to storage intensive CM, and seeing their thoughts validated after attending EMC World I'm disappointed. When EMC bought Documentum, I had hoped that they had seen the future and were focused... Continue Reading →
Virtualization and Software Cost
Chuck Hollis scares me. If you aren't a regular reader of his blog you're missing out. He has a deceptively disarming way of painting the picture of technoloy's future that makes you feel better about the coming apocalypse. Chuck just put out a series of great posts on The Changing Face of Information. He posts often on VMWare and... Continue Reading →
EMC Acquires PI – What’s the Relevance?
Last Thursday, EMC announced it acquired PI Corp. Like many of you I had never heard about PI. But I really like naming conventions. Many of you missed the one from last week’s post that still makes me laugh. Alchemy was a science that failed in its attempt to turn ordinary metals into gold. PI... Continue Reading →
Microsoft’s Mid-Life Crisis
Sometime between the age 30 and 45 men loose their minds. It's called a mid-life crisis. You go to your high school reunion compare yourself to the jocks, cheerleaders and geeks you went to school with and take stock of your life. The old joke is that you hit this phase and get a new... Continue Reading →
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