Computerworld UK "Open source hearts and minds"

Deploy on Linux or stay with XP - Hasta la Vista

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:44:00 GMT

It is important to note that SharePoint only runs on a Microsoft stack and some have speculated that SharePoint is the next operating system from Microsoft. One of the goals of the survey was to examine the influence of SharePoint and the Microsoft stack on the open source community.

If the Process is about Content, then Integration is King

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:06:00 GMT

The BPM analysis shows a strong preference for “other” at 62%.

Integration Comes First for Wiki's in ECM Environment

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:10:00 GMT

The wiki analysis, similarly to the blog analysis, shows a strong preference for “other” at 60%.

Integration Comes First for Blogs in ECM Environment

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:43:00 GMT

The blog analysis shows a strong preference for “Other” at 63%.

Portal or Browser in the Enterprise - Give me that Web 2.0 Experience

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:50:00 GMT

Web 2.0 has had a major impact on how users create and access content, particularly from an ease-of-use perspective. One of the goals of the survey was to examine the influence of Enterprise 2.0 technology such as wikis, blogs and portals on ECM.

AJAX and Flex are the Choice for Open Source

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:20:00 GMT

The Rich Internet Application (RIA) analysis shows a strong preference for AJAX at 58%.

86% say no to .NET/Web Parts

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:07:00 GMT

Previous surveys have shown that community members tend to evaluate on a Windows laptop and in deployment turn to a Linux server. This survey continued the trend with 64% of users preferring to evaluate on Windows.

Third Open Source Barometer Published

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:04:00 GMT

Open source is one of the major trends of this decade. Much analysis is based on very small sample sizes. ECM gives an interesting view of the role of open source in an enterprise stack as it sits on top of the stack integrating with both the infrastructure and end user tools.

7. Why CMIS?

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:58:00 GMT

In a nutshell - "Alfresco, EMC, IBM, Microsoft, OpenText, Oracle and SAP" is the answer.

6. What will be the Impact of CMIS on the ECM Market?

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:09:00 GMT

I worked in the database industry in the 80's and 90's and lived through the massive impact of SQL. You don't hear of the vendors that didn't fully embrace SQL today.

5. Which Vendors are involved in CMIS and how long have they been working on the Draft Specification?

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:10:00 GMT

CMIS is backed by all of the major vendors in the ECM industry

4. How does CMIS relate to other Standards?

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:45:00 GMT

One of the core principles of a service-oriented architecture is for services to be able to call other services through standards API calls. Content management does not live in isolation and therefore CMIS aims to build on existing standards – for example it uses the ATOM protocol as part of its REST binding and WS-Security and HTTP authentication while focusing on ECM specific repository content services.

3. What Functionality Does CMIS Address?

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:15:00 GMT

CMIS exposes core content services in a consistent way so that a write-once, run anywhere application can be developed. According to the published "Overview of Content Management Interoperability Services 1.0":

If you go from SaaS to PaaS you need CaaS

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:42:00 GMT

Today I attended the SugarCRM 2008 world tour as it stopped in London. All seats were taken and there were presentations from, amongst others, BT and SugarCRM discussing Integrating Marketing, Sales and Support. The presentation that caught my attention was "From SaaS to PaaS: The Future of CRM" by Martin Schneider discussing the move within the industry from:

2. What Problem Does CMIS Address?

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:59:00 GMT

Today within an organization multiple CM systems exist - often driven by significant application led purchases. This causes major issues when you want to:

CMIS Top Ten Questions

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:42:00 GMT

On September 10, 2008, OASIS member companies submitted a proposed charter for a new OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Technical Committee (TC). This series of posts addresses the top ten questions that have arisen as a result of that announcement.

Content gets a Standard - A Big Week for Content Management

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:46:00 GMT

The world of content management made a big step forward this week. The worlds biggest content management vendors agreed on a standard - CMIS - Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard. CMIS is backed by all of the major vendors in the ECM industry - Alfresco, EMC, IBM, Microsoft, OpenText, Oracle and SAP. What is as important is that the two largest applications vendors in the world are also backing the standard. CMIS has been in development for 2 years resulting in a practical specification that was validated in a "Plugfest" in August 2008 in Redmond to validate interoperability of the specification before submission to OASIS.

Ignoring open source will put companies at a serious competitive disadvantage - Gartner

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:41:00 GMT

2008 is well underway and it is interesting to review predictions for the year. One of Gartner's predictions for IT organisations and users in 2008 and beyond was:

Recycling Plastic Bags - What about Saving 35 million PC's from Landfill

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:59:00 GMT

A friend of mine recently gave their daughter a PC for her birthday. Unfortunately the PC had Vista with half a megabyte of memory. She had complained to her parents that her new PC was slow and they told here to stop exaggerating. I went to visit them and watching paint dry seemed quick. We fixed it by upgrading to 2 Gigabytes of memory.

Wanted Non-Swimmer as Lifeguard

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:23:00 GMT

This may seem a bizarre title but this is effectively what has happened today when a BECTA contract, to set up an open source community in the schools sector, was awarded to a company with no open source experience. What is even more bizarre is that they were chosen over companies with deep open source experience. No-Swimmer over Ian Thorpe type of choice.

EU pushes open-source standard as 'smart business'

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:40:00 GMT

Today the EU called on member governments to use open source:

Collaboration Grabs Centre Stage at the Fifth Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:48:00 GMT

The Fifth Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium this year gathered four leading CIO panelists from Liberty Mutual, Adobe, US Environmental Protection Agency and the Special Olympics International. The topic of debate was "the delicate balance between funding bread-and-butter technology maintenance versus the need for new investments in line with the firm's global vision and mission." The panel viewed the issue as a false dichotomy and the topic that ended up grabbing center stage was collaboration tools. The strong push at each of these very different organizations is to tap into the creativity of employees using collaboration tools.

Go to work on Open Source

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Wed, 28 May 2008 09:42:00 GMT

When I was a boy there was an advert - Go to work on an egg. Well today over 10m Londoners (who use Oyster card) are going to work on open source.

Gartner Comments on the Rise of Open Source

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Thu, 22 May 2008 11:44:00 GMT

Mark Driver of Gartner was quoted yesterday on the use of open source technology as a competitive differentiator.

Gartner Comments on the Rise of Open Source

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Thu, 22 May 2008 11:44:00 GMT

Mark Driver of Gartner was quoted yesterday on the use of open source technology as a competitive differentiator.