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This week, IBM’s Domino migrations get easier with the release of DLItools’ Docova v3, Microsoft and Equisys team to integrate Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 with Office 365, Gartner takes a look at enterprise CMS vendors in its Magic Quadrant and ShareMethods upgrades document sharing, while PSIGEN and Nintex partner.

While Lexmark announced last week that it was moving into the Enterprise CMS space with the acquisition of Perceptive, Dell continues its move into the managed services market by adding document management to its printers. Alfresco is also making moves by making content migration to its ECM easier than ever.

Tim O'Reilly has some ideas about what's next for the web. Web 2.0 has been around for awhile and Web 3.0 although continually evolving, has officially given birth. Is what's next Web 2.5 or Web 4.0? Regardless, O'Reilly thinks it's time for the Web to get smarter.

Much like an infant who learns to crawl, the web is developing along a similar course. Using all of its senses, more information can be gained and access. Among his predictions include voice activated search for the iPhone, a Compact Disk Database, an OpenID for our carbon footprint, a global warming sensor system and the IBM Smarter Project. 

Easier, Richer Communications

Tim Bray, Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems also has predictions. In a recent interview he said that "as long as the Internet grows, its primary effect will be to facilitate easier and richer communications between human beings, the infrastructure we use to build that effect is to be invented."

But what does this mean for CMS? What does the future of the Web 2.0 have in store for document management at the enterprise level? Surely, none of what O'Reilly suggests could even take shape without some system capable of storing, organizing and sharing the very information they need.

Perhaps this is too big picture. There are many smaller scale projects taking place that are helping to shape the future of the web. Among them is ShareMethods (news, site), who, when we last reported had just released ShareSpaces, a sort of social workspace. We had a chance to speak with CEO, Eric Hoffert about Sharespaces and its impact in the Web 2.0 world and beyond.

In these green and technologically advanced times, users are sharing more.

Such is the case of document management. Collaboration is high demand and ShareMethods, a on-demand collaborative document management company for small and medium sized businesses, has noticed. They just announced the release of ShareSpaces, a private, interactive workspace for creating, managing and sharing content and files with individuals and partners throughout an organization's ecosystem in a controlled and secure environment.

Joining Zimbra, Zoho and a web based office suite from a little ole Google; ShareMethods is the latest player in the effort to move the office suite from the desktop to the web.