i just got back from the NE user group meeting in Boston yesterday. Many thanks to the host, Liberty Mutual, and the other sponsors. Looking at the numbers, I see that this is the 100th post on BMOC. These types of milestones don't matter in the grand scheme of things but if I may be... Continue Reading →
Ah Microsoft, you were listening
Boy was Open Text getting desperate. In the beginning it was kind of cute. Press release after press release about how they were working with Microsoft SharePoint yet not one included an endorsement from Microsoft. But now finally a quote from Microsoft on a press release with Denver based SeeUnity. For the past year Open Text... Continue Reading →
SharePoint and Philosophy 101
A basic rule in critical thinking - You can't prove a negative. You can not say that something does not exist simply because you have not seen it. You can also collect all of the evidence to the contrary you want but you will always be forced into an assumption if your premise is a... Continue Reading →
BMOC at Mid-Atlantic EMC CMA User Meeting
I'll be speaking at the Mid-Atlantic EMC Content Management and Archiving User Group on September 29. The topic is Three Choices for Documentum and SharePoint Integration. Come to the session or at the Armedia table later and let me know what your impressions of new stuff, Wall Street or Brittany Spears' triumphant return. I encourage... Continue Reading →
EMC World 2008 – Random Reflections
EMC World was exhausting but very productive and a good time was had by everyone I spoke to. By all accounts from the many postings I've read this has been far more informative and newsworthy than in recent years for CMA. As Marko pointed out, I was working the booth for the entire show with... Continue Reading →
EMC Documentum Will Not Go Quietly Into that Dark Night
The biggest surprise of EMC World so far was presented in the Tuesday keynote but for some reason the buzz wasn’t going around. I was asked last night if I had seen the Magellan demo but as I had only arrive that afternoon I had missed it. I also didn’t know that the keynotes were... Continue Reading →
Sharepoint’s Real Competition – Exchange
I am in my early forties and I am frightening close the 300 lbs - I'm not prone to giggle. When I read Shawn Shell's post on CMSWatch about an internal debate at Microsoft about Shared Folders vs. Sharepoint I giggled like a school girl. An imagined exchange played out in my head peppered with... Continue Reading →
eRoom Users Call to Action
I'd be kidding myself if I didn't admit that Sharepoint will control most of the collaboration market space but there is need and profit in the rest of that pie chart. IBM is not backing away from collaboration but EMC's lack of vocal support of eRoom, pandering to backend integration and promises for the delayed Rich Internet Client suggest that eRoom... Continue Reading →
Mission Critical Collaboration – SharePoint or GoogleSites?
Some of the most prominent players in the CMS market (OpenText, EMC/Documentum,et.al.) seem to have all but surrendered collaboration to SharePoint. Microsoft's market position with collaboration content creation tools (Office) gives them a natural advantage which they have capitalized on in every way. Even extending their message well beyond "free range" collaboration.Now entering the fray... Continue Reading →
Enterprise Sharepoint? – Port it to Oracle
I've read it argued that CMS vendors in general might not have to worry so much about SharePoint competition because its only a Collaborative Content Application. The rest of the models are safe. If you have a web content management (WCMS) or a records management product there is no reason to worry because MOSS is... Continue Reading →
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