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Can Open Text turn the page on Vignette's recent history?

ECM vendor Open Text announced this morning that it intends to acquire Vignette, provider of Web and transactional content management technologies. In some circles, the acquisition of Vignette has been a foregone conclusion for many months now. Vignette has been an established player for years, with an impressive customer base....

Tags: Open Text Corp., Vignette Corp., WCM, Web Technology, Content Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Stephen Powers

Blog posts 2009-05-06

CMIS: Boom Or Bust?

Some of you may have heard about the joint announcement from EMC, IBM, and Microsoft about the creation of Content Management Interoperability Services CMIS. The purpose of this proposed new standard? To create a vendor-agnostic way of accessing the data in content management systems from multiple vendors. In other words:...

Tags: Content Management, Web Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Stephen Powers

Blog posts 2008-10-21

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Democrats lack votes for health care reform

It's amazingWhen Republicans are in power, Democrats can't get anything done. When Democrats are in power, Democrats can't get anything done. Who's running that show anyway?Carl RapsonRepublicansRepublicans will continue to run Washington until the assumptions underlying their rule change. This is good news.We dont need to overhaul a system that...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Nope, Obama, insurance, healthcare reform

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Amazon's Kindle 2: 5 burning questions

Amazon unveiled its Kindle 2 in New York Monday and the device looks impressive, but may not enough to inspire gadget lust in a down economy. Meanwhile, Amazon's press conference was a bit of a let-down since Kindle 2 is really just an iteration of the company's first e-book. ...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Kindle 2, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Wireless And Mobility, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-09

Can this fish grow legs? What biology can teach us about SOA

Can this fish grow legs? What biology can teach us about SOAAppalling deficiency in powers of observationRegardless of the theory du jour, biological evolution is a system of advancement. Compare single cell organism with human body, and culture.Theory "du jour" is based on what has been observedIf you want to...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), theory, biology, SOA

Discussion threads 2007-11-28

Monkcast #11: Green APIs, open sourcing discontinued software, and more

The boys from Redmonk James Governor and Michael Cote and I recorded our 11th MonkCast today and as usual, we were all over the technology map. Being the hot topic that it is just about everywhere, we covered a wide range of "green" subject matter. As a part...

Tags: Software, Sourcing, API, Governor, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-08-03

ZDNet to host after-hours BlogHaus after Digital Experience in NYC

Next week on Wednesday, June 27th, Pepcom is holding their ultra-cool Digital Experience event for the press to come get a gander at a lot of cool gadgetry.  Everything from notebooks and PCs to digital imaging gear and smartphones. ZDNet plans to be there in force. I'll be flying down...

Tags: Wired &, Wireless, Personal Technology, Mobile, General

Blog posts 2007-06-22

Google Gears: NOT a Microsoft killer

Google Office vs. Microsoft? Maybe I indicated today, underscoring that Google finally, apparently, has the guts to let Google Apps compete in the big boys market, a for pay one.Does that mean then that Microsoft is en route to being "flattened" by Google.Moreover, does Gears magically stamp Google as developers' best friend...

Tags: Microsoft, Google Software Applications, Google Apps, Google

Blog posts 2007-06-01

Office XML as ECMA and ISO Standard?

As announced today, Microsoft plans to submit the Office 12 file formats to the ECMA for standardization, followed by standardization through ISO. I'm gratified, because I predicted Microsoft would be open to the idea in a previous blog post discussing Massachusetts' decision to standardize on ODF. According to the aforementioned...

Tags: Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2005-11-21

Yellowikis: Demonstrating Web 2.0 principles

In this the third and final part of my series of posts about Yellowikis as a Web 2.0 case study, I look at some of the principles that can be applied by other Web 2.0 companies and those people wanting to start a business in this era of the Web.To...

Tags: Yellowikis

Blog posts 2005-11-17