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Friday, Feb 27 2004

Open Text Corp. shares rose 7.47 per cent Wednesday after the software company raised its profit guidance following its successful acquisition of Germany's Ixos Software AG.

Open Text increased its guidance following completion of the acquisition of 88 per cent of the shares of Ixos, a software firm Open Text agreed to acquire last October for about $230-million in cash and stock.

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This is quite interesting. Xerox has just announced that they've come up with new classification software that is able to process electronic documents, automatically classify them, then intelligently route them for workflow, response, archival, etc. It is capable of learning new classifications on the fly and supports up to 20 languages.

Some excerpts from the Techweb.com article follow.

Hummingbird Ltd., a provider of integrated enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, and Venetica, a provider of enterprise content integration (ECI) software, have announced a strategic technology partnership, under which Hummingbird will leverage Venetica technology to enable their business solutions to incorporate content from external systems.

As part of the announcement, Venetica will create a Content Bridge to Hummingbird Enterprise 2004 DM, so customers can incorporate Hummingbird-stored content into applications built upon the VeniceBridge platform.

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Thursday, Feb 26 2004

Enterprise content management (ECM) solution provider, IXOS SOFTWARE, has announced the latest version of its e-mail management solution for Microsoft Exchange. Version 2.0A of IXOS-eCONserver for Microsoft Exchange provides enhanced support for offline users, integrated full-text search, retention management and support for Exchange Server 2003 and Outlook 2003.

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With enterprise mailbox volume growing at 40% annually (Gartner) and global business e-mail growing from 9.7 billion/day in 2000 to 35 billion /day in 2005 (IDC), storage management issues for businesses continue to escalate.

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When making CMS purchasing decisions, the platform of choice can significantly impact the total solution cost. This comes in the form of both sw licensing costs for multiple servers and total cost of ownership. Of note here is the very significant performance gains realized with the recent Linux 2.6 kernel.

IBM staff engineers tested identical [Apache and J2EE] web servers in a controlled environment, simulating prolonged system load and multiple user interaction models. These were not CMS tests specifically, but were complex, multi-threaded, and data-driven applications, not unlike a CMS.

The short: comparing identical SMP systems, one with the 2.6 kernel and one with the 2.4 kernel, the 2.6 system served 6 times the number of web pages. This is a significant fact when considering platforms and production architectures for larger CMS solutions. Anything Java, ColdFusion, or PHP will run on Linux.

Wednesday, Feb 25 2004

Sorry, thought I'd try my hand at catchy titles. Was that catchy? Anyhow, I've long wondered how long the Lotus Domino platform would survive. Here's a definitive answer: its being phased out and migrated towards WebSphere/Java/DB2.

The future of Lotus software is to be the user interface to IBM's software technologies.

No surprises here. But a deep install base, developer and customer loyalty, and massive pre-existing investments require slow, steady, and cost-effective migrations. The end of life for Domino is sure to be a ways out.

Scene7 of Navato California has just announced their Digital Asset Management product for Microsoft SharePoint and Office 2003. They describe the product as a cost-effective digital asset management (DAM) solution for small/medium businesses to enterprise corporations using Microsoft Office 2003 Editions.

Features and additional info follow.

Wednesday, Feb 25 2004

Aside from general industry relevance, JBoss also recently announced an open-source Web CMS/Community product based roughly on PostNukes . Read: Nukes on JBoss

The new funds, JBoss Inc says, will be used "to strengthen the compan's profitable balance sheet and support product development, infrastructure build-out, and marketing" - allowing JBoss to ramp up to meet growing enterprise demand for the JBoss application server and support services.

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Tuesday, Feb 24 2004

The Rockley Group is offering a one day workshop in the Philadelphia area on Mar. 19, 2004. The event will cover Ann Rockley's Unified Content Strategy, how to create a reuse strategy, how to create information models, etc.

The price is USD 400.00 per student. More information follows.

THINQ Learning Solutions, Inc. today announced the availability of the THINQ Learning Content Management System (LCMS), a fully browser-based tool to create, deploy and manage content rapidly for training and learning programs enterprise-wide. Available as an optional module of the THINQ TrainingServer(R) Learning Management System (LMS), THINQ LCMS enables organizations to centralize the management of proprietary and third-party content for real-time learning and high-impact business results.

The JumpStart service is designed to very quickly get your organization aligned and executing towards a web content management solution implementation. The Web CMS JumpStart offering includes procurement guidance, functional analysis - use case development, information architecture, system architecture, install/config, prototyping, and personalized training.

According to a 2003 UC Berkeley study, the global "we" produced five exabytes of information in 2002, this number is growing by roughly 30 per cent every year, which means the total amount of stored information almost doubles every three years.

An exabyte is: a thousand petabytes, a million terabytes, or a billion gigabytes. Or, according to the study, aproximately 500,000 times the amount of data in the Library of Congress' print collection.