Following closely behind Alfresco’s Series C round of $9M, SpringCM received $10M in their Series B round this week.  Many of us are familiar with the open source approach to content management by Alfresco, but not as many of us have heard of SpringCM.  And that’s where SpringCM plans to focus their new found $14M ($4M was a credit extension) on marketing.  Better still as part of the investment Jeffrey Beir joining their board of directors.  His success in building eRoom will be a great help at this point of growth.

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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 virtualization in general and for the series he included this post where he argues that virtualization reduces friction in IT delivery.  It makes me wonder, with no friction - how do you hold on to it. Or better - how do you hold on to IT. (more…)

I was reading over the Open Text announcement of their Enterprise 2.0 strategy. I am reminded of the old line. “I’ve started working on my second million. The first didn’t turn out so well.” When exactly was 1.0 finished and just what is so different that it warrants incrementing the major version?

The announcement highlights a number of key points but the central idea for us is in the middle of the list

• “Enterprise 2.0 Content Management: Provide flexible use of wikis, forums, blogs, tagging, and real-time collaboration. Provide advanced handling of rich-media content, with special emphasis on video, which is quickly becoming the de-facto format for 2.0 style work. “

I first heard EMC talking up Enterprise 2.0 at EMC World last year but I haven’t seen as succinct a summary of their strategy as we find from Open Text.  When EMC talks 2.0, it’s much more about platform and frameworks than specific end user capability.  All this new world dawning talk is nice but If you already have Documentum in house, is this something to consider.

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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 grandiose terms like “synergy” and accusations of the one group against another  not wanting to be “team players.” However entertaining the speculation may be, the future relationship between Exchange, Outlook and Sharepoint is far from certain. (more…)

Over a month ago Idiom was acquired by SDL.  They were the last of the independent GCMS (Global Content Management Systems) vendors.  Now they are to become the second technology platform to be hidden away in a translation services company.  Why does SDL, a company who has a majority of its revenue coming from translation services work, have a vested interest in keeping translation process hidden?  I hope the answer obvious. 

But really what does this mean for the ecosystem, why should it matter and if it’s so important why don’t I hear about it?  I’ll cover the four major constituencies and how they will be effected. 

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