Holy IMAX Batman!

Okay.  I rarely stray away from technology, but I have to share.  I just got back from watching The Dark Knight, on an IMAX screen.  This was my first IMAX movie, and I hadn’t seen this Batman movie yet.  When I walked in the theater, it was what I expected.  When the movie started…I have one word…

…whoa….

Not an exclamation, but a slow steady, I’m still in shock…whoa….

Okay, maybe I have a few more words, but that sums it up.  The movie doesn’t take all six stories of the screen all the time, but when it does, wow.  I mean WOW!  My wife, moderate action film viewer, thought it was easily worth the babysitter and the extra cost of the IMAX tickets.  If you knew my wife, that would mean even more to you.

If you have any interest in seeing the movie, get thee to the nearest IMAX theater!  Now!

My only problem now is that I’m sure that it will be disappointing when I own the DVD and watch it on my much smaller screen.  It was an incredible movie and I think it’ll still be great (maybe the best Batman ever), but I’ll know how truly amazing it is on the big, big, screen.

I now return you to our regularly schedule blog….

Documentum 6.5 is Released

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Just so you know, last night I saw the first bits of D6.5 on the download site. The entire core stack is out. If you are a partner, you may not see some components as they are fixing some of the entitlements. I expect that to be fixed quickly. [Edit 8/5/2008: Fixed.] Share and enjoy.

Also, D7 is slated for Q4 2009. This is on schedule for 18 months after D6.5, as their strategy for releases dictates.

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Where Do You Store the Content Metadata?

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Recently, Sumanth Molakala sent me a comment regarding the best place to store metadata.

Here is the relevant portion of his comment:

…one of the key items I am trying to address in it is managing meta-data. I am sure you are aware of the two schools of thought – One – save content in content server and meta-data outside of the content server in a “custom” meta-data repository (assuming that the world doesn’t revolve around Documentum). Two – the traditional approach to save content and meta-data in the content server…

My quick answer…It depends! Before you shoot me, read on…

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The CMS Watch Vendor Map

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A while back, CMS Watch came out with an updated vendor map, which is designed as a subway map.  While it does serve as a quick checklist of a vendors capabilities, it is just more fun to look at it.  Here is a copy of the 2008 version, but you can download it on their site and get some options.

This year they are offering swag in their store with images of the map as the pretty graphic.  No interest for me there, at first.  I then saw this line:

Regarding the latter, perhaps you already own your fill of mugs and mousepads, but can you ever have enough beer steins? Bring it to the next event where we’re speaking and we’ll fill it up with the closest available brew. 😉

Alas, none of the events are coming to any events I plan on attending.  I would buy the beer stein for a chance to get it filled up.  After all, that is makes it a beer stein and not just another piece of swag.  Plus Tony is always fun and interesting to talk to, with or without a frosty beverage.

Knowledge Management is Marching Along

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For anyone that ever thought that Knowledge Management is dead, go forth into the blogsphere and watch it emerge anew. Like a Phoenix, it is rising from the ashes and beginning debates over again. It is nice to go back in time at reflect at how things were. It is even nicer to see the concepts that I’ve always thought important being revived as KM again.

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Enterprise 2.0, What, Why, and Knowledge Management

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So Billy and I started to discuss his article published by AIIM last month. Before that got very far, it got sidetracked by a new blog launch. Luckily for me, Bex finally jumped in to fill the conversational void. He threw out a definition and then started talking about what Enterprise 2.0 isn’t. I don’t fault him for that as I doubt that I could do better on the topic. I do believe that I can contribute though, so here it goes…

Everyone get out your bingo cards, its going to be a wild ride.

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Documentum Connector for MS Office SharePoint Server 2007 Overview and Demo

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At the EMC Federal Government Forum, we were treated to a surprise, the overview of a new SharePoint/Documentum integration. Slated to be released shortly, it appears to replicate the features of the existing SharePoint products. The difference is that the Documentum Connector for MOSS 2007 is based upon DFS and Web Services and is customizable. This means that what you see is what you start with, not what you get.

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Mark Lewis at the 2008 EMC Federal Government Forum

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When I heard that Mark Lewis was going to be presenting the keynote at the EMC Federal Government Forum, I knew that I had to meet him. After seeing him at EMC World in Vegas this year, I was critical of Mark. I was confused because the impression from watching him speak did not match with what I heard from the people working at EMC.

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Documentum and ECM…A Career or a Job?

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After spending a busy day at the EMC Federal Forum, you might expect me to give some great write-up on what I saw. Well, that is coming. What I saw was only half of the picture. The most important part of this, or any event, is the networking. One topic that popped-up several times was the hiring of quality talent.

I’ve talked in the past about Building Documentum Talent. The problem is that sometimes, you don’t have the time to build people. It is a great problem to have, but it is still a problem. To solve the problem, the search goes out to find and hire quality people. Recently, I’ve been fighting a growing problem…people that only want contract work.

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D6.5 Release Information

According to Whitney Tidmarsh’s talk today, D6.5 is slated for the end of July.  An official announcement should be coming next week.

What does this mean?  It should be on the download site by the second week in August.  The download site is run by a 3rd party, so sometimes it takes a bit to get everything updated.

If you work with your account rep, you can make sure that you get it on the actual release date.