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It's just about the end of August and time for the gears to shift up one. This week, there have been a number of new releases that have focused principally on getting SharePoint 2010-ready. O3Spaces has also been busy, this time adding Linux support.

It's just about the end of August and time for the gears to shift up one. This week, there have been a number of new releases that have focused principally on getting SharePoint 2010-ready. O3Spaces has also been busy, this time adding Linux support.

Open Text's (news, site) Q3 2010 showed some turbulence. Their Q4 and fiscal year 2010 results are not much different.

Open Text (news,site) is putting one of their recent acquisitions -- Nstein -- to a good use. Like many others in the Enterprise CMS field, Open Text is after web engagement with better search experience and a chance at a more intelligent navigation.

This week we saw a lot of big names venture into new territories. Google went Government with a new version of Apps, and Facebook took a turn toward better customer satisfaction (after being labeled worse than airline services)  with Salesforce.com. Meanwhile, everyone's mad at Apple, but the iPhone4 is sold out anyway. 

Open Text (news, site) has released Web Site Management 10.1, formerly known to most as Open Text Web Solutions and Red Dot. How has this merging of solutions made the life of content and website administrators easier?

Recently, the Real Story Group identified mid-market Microsoft .NET-based content management systems as the biggest Web CMS trend for Q3.

I was inspired to explore this topic a bit more, as industry anecdotes of organizations selecting one CMS vendor over the other based on the "We're a 100% .NET" claim sprang to mind.

Recently, the Real Story Group identified mid-market Microsoft .NET-based content management systems as the biggest Web CMS trend for Q3.

I was inspired to explore this topic a bit more, as industry anecdotes of organizations selecting one CMS vendor over the other based on the "We're a 100% .NET" claim sprang to mind.

We’ve been exploring Web Engagement Management (WEM) perspectives lately. This time we look at the role that Digital Asset Management (DAM) plays in engagement. And based on my experiences, I'll put a stake in the ground and say that most organizations and DAM vendors are missing out on the potential DAM+WEM love.

The strategic partnership between Open Text (news, site) and SAP (news, site) seems more like a marriage then a partnership by virtue of the amount of agreements they have made. The latest is the expansion of the reseller agreement that will now include employee file management capabilities.

We saw some fairly brutal punches thrown this week. First, Google took Microsoft and everything Microsoft-related away from its staff, then kicked out a calculator that can estimate how much money your organization will save by switching over to the G side (they didn't direct this towards Microsoft users specifically, but come on). Meanwhile, Open Text re branded its social media product and added features aimed at attracting the enterprise.

RIP Open Text Social Media. Viva Open Text Social Workplace. Total bloom bada boom. Confused? Oh, don't be. It's all simple, really.

Open Text (news, site) rebranded its social media product (Open Text Social Media -> Open Text Social Workplace), as well as released a new version of it, looping in some Vignette functionalities and targeting the enterprise urge to use social media, but in a secure and controlled fashion.

As every company and its dog leaps to announce its love and support for the new SharePoint 2010 platform, Open Text (news, site) joins in the fun.

Open Text (news, site) recently released its unaudited fiscal third quarter 2010 results that show negative effects of "greater seasonality" compared to previous years, resulting in a 5% drop in license revenue.

Even though OTEX says fiscal 2010 is "tracking to plan," several financial analysts are downgrading their recommendations from “neutral” to “sell” in regards to Open Text shares.

With the introduction of Rights Management Services (RMS) for its ECM Suite, Open Text (news, site) has added another layer of security to information that may be secure in a repository, but once out of the repository risks being sent to, and used by, people or companies that have no business with that information in the first place.