- SharePoint 2010 - 5 Hot Features to Look Forward To
- Selecting a CMS: How to Build a Short List
- Alterian Drops Immediacy, Morello Web CMS Brands
- Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7
- How SharePoint 2010’s Metadata Services Increase Usability
- Gartner’s Top 5 BPM Predictions for 2010 And Beyond
- Open Text Reports Good Q2, Vignette Contributes to YoY Spike
Get the NewsletterEMC Releases Free Documentum Developer Edition Enterprise CMS
What’s better than free? We sure can’t come up with anything, which is at least one reason the new EMC Documentum Developer Edition will likely earn a few double takes.
The new resource for application developers interested in utilizing the Enterprise CMS platform was released as a free download earlier this month, along with the announcement of a new developer-oriented community.
Simple Aims
As Craig Randall, Content Management & Archiving Engineer, EMC, puts it, the reason behind the new offering is simply that EMC is trying to provide a “low-touch DIY experience.” Accordingly, EMC Documentum Developer Edition can reportedly be installed after download in one easy click of the mouse.
The install includes the Content Server, DFS, Composer, DA and Webtop for content-centric application lovers. And for the social butterflies out there, the new community site offers forums for questions, troubleshooting, and general jabber.
“By integrating your local installation to an online community, the developer edition enables you to reach out to fellow developers and EMC employees as your pursuit your content management development interests grow,” Randall says.
Essentialisms
EMC highlights the following points as the essential parts of the new release
- It’s Free (can’t say something like that too many times!)
- One-click installation process for the core of the EMC Documentum ECM Platform
- xDB and new XML Components
- Integration between the resulting development environment and online community resources and support mechanisms
This first release bundles the SQL Server 5 Express Edition. Meaning it specifically targets Windows environments. Meaning it’s not available on a Linux box. Sorry, Linux peeps.
EMC’s solution to this problem? Voice your opinion in the new Developer Community, of course (clever, right?). Word on the street is that Product Management is already considering additional platform support, so at this time every little push counts.
Keep Up
Though the Developer Edition of Documentum is new, EMC’s efforts to provide fast and easy solutions are certainly not. Following a positive Q4, we saw the vendor kick out new Case Management Framework, a new version of ApplicationXtender, and increased CMIS support.
Will tossing in a free (there’s that word again) solution and offering up social options ensure more substantial growth despite current limitations? Follow the company here and let’s see.
Was this article useful?
Email It
Stumble It
Add RSS2 Reader Comments
Leave a Response
Processing...
From our Job Board View all jobs
| 
Jobs RSS feed
| Post a job right now
Featured Events View all events
| Events RSS feed
| Add your event
- Feb 17, 2010 – Webinar: 4 Essential Strategies for Advancing Your Website's Business Impact
- Feb 26, 2010 – Intelligent Content 2010
- Apr 21, 2010 – Drupalcon San Francisco 2010
- May 5, 2010 – CMS Expo 2010 (Evanston)
- Oct 7, 2010 – HartmanEVENT 2010 - Social Media & Mobile Usability
Note, the developer edition, while I think it's a good move on the part of EMC, is not that friendly to road warriors who work off a laptop -- and I'd imagine this is a good percentage of the target audience.
Quoting Apoorv Durga:
"EMC claims it takes 23 minutes to get up and running with Documentum, although i suspect it will take much more to download it - It is almost a 2 GB download and has steep RAM requirements (recommended 4 GB although 3 GB would work too) and so it would not be as easy to run it (on a laptop) as it is with some other products. [...] The developer edition comes bundled with Jboss and SQL Server Express database."
Hopefully in a future release the company will tone down the hardware requirements.
This is for the first time I am seeing some downloads for Documentum tools. Its nice. I downloaded the version available only to find that it is not compatible with my Windows 7 version. While trying to install its telling SQL server is not the latest has to have sp3. But I am not able to install that package also. At the end it tells installation is complete. But as related to normal installation, its not doing anything. Not going forward after SQL sever installation. Also if a preinstalled compatible version is there, package is not taking that one also.