I want a private equity fund to buy Documentum from EMC and give it a real shot at regaining its former glory. Noted rumor-monger Brilliant Leap speculates about Documentum in a world without EMC. Tongues were already wagging at EMC World about the SAP-EMC partnership leading to something a little more intimate. It has enough of the smell [...]
I was lucky that last month’s XML Philly meeting didn’t trigger my post-traumatic stress syndrome. Quark’s presentation on their XML Author product took me back to the front lines, having done something similar with Word and SGML over a dozen years ago. Quark says it always produces valid XML for any schema. I can testify [...]
There’s a dark side to the Wired article I mentioned earlier [Microsoft Giving Away Developer Software]. Most people like free things, but when is free (as in beer) a bad thing? When somebody’s trying to get you drunk and take advantage of you. Wired touches on how Microsoft is using the free bundle in its [...]
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Posted 22 February 2008
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