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The Origin of Species of Information

    Happy Birthday Chuck! You’ve given us so much! Last night’s Philadelphia XML Users Group was a pleasant mix of the old and the new: Jim Caine of Jaquette Consulting revisited an earlier talk on content reuse that touched on DITA and Documentum among other things. Named for today’s birthday boy, the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) [...]

Posted 12 February 2009 † john.kominetz § ‡ Comments (0) °

SEC Nomination for FINRA’s Shapiro

A former client may soon lose its top officer to the coalescing Obama administration.  Mary Shapiro, current CEO of the Finance Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), has been nominated to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Who is FINRA? FINRA is the largest independent regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States. We [...]

Posted 16 January 2009 † john.kominetz § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

BrilliantLeap – EMC Layoffs: Is there really no better alternative?

For those living under a rock … BrilliantLeap – EMC Layoffs: Is there really no better alternative? It’s hard to say what layoffs at EMC mean for Documentum.  Where does EMC expect the greatest shrink in revenue: hardware or software?  The lion’s share of their business is still disk, but  I can come up with [...]

Posted 07 January 2009 † john.kominetz § ‡ Comments (0) °