Open Source
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Content Management, Platforms or Solutions?
The Content Management industry is rife with contradictions. The biggest of which is that the business just wants solutions to their problems while IT wants a common platform from an established player to make integrations and upgrades less risky. I’m not sure how we solve this problem and I am tired of watching the pendulum… Continue reading
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Heartbleed is NOT an Open Source Issue
I was going to write a nice, calm post today when I came across Ralph Losey’s piece on the Heartbleed bug. It is a long piece and you can tell it was written by a lawyer. I have nothing against lawyers as two of my oldest and closest friends are lawyers. I’ve met and talked… Continue reading
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Strategy Versus Tactics in Content Management
One of the things I REALLY like about my job is the chance to talk to clients, prospects, and people throughout the industry. Nothing helps you learn a technology or vertical like a project, but nothing helps you keep a broader perspective than talking to a wide array of people. Last month I visited two… Continue reading
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Security, Real or Imagined?
I’ve opined on the security of cloud solutions in the past, usually stating that the odds were good that established cloud vendors have better security than the average data center. Yesterday, I saw an shared an article about how researchers reversed engineered the Dropbox client. While this isn’t necessarily a critical issue for Dropbox, it… Continue reading
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Services, The Open Source Hedge Against the Cloud
I’ve spent a lot of time talking about how the traditional vendors are being disrupted and are going to face an increasing number of challenges from the new cloud vendors. I want to take a minute to talk about why the Open Source vendors, like Alfresco and Nuxeo, are likely to not be disrupted. Don’t… Continue reading
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Review: The New Kingmakers
I will admit that I have been following what Stephen O’Grady and James Governor have been doing over at Redmonk for quite some time. They were doing for developers what I wish people had been doing when I was a developer. When Stephen published his book, I promptly went out and got it…and then had… Continue reading
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Nuxeo World 2011, A Healthy Start
I had the pleasure of flying to France to speak at the second Nuxeo World last week. While my primary purpose was to deliver a quick little keynote on Content Management Trends (slides and CMS Wire article), I had ulterior motives: Where are they going? Do they know Records Management? Are they capable? I had… Continue reading
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Splintering of the Content Management Market
Life was so easy 10 years ago in this market. Web Content Management was simply publishing unless you were one of those companies doing business online. Enterprise Content Management wasn’t a reality, but we thought it was just waiting for the blending of the core technical capabilities. When it came to selecting a technology, it… Continue reading
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The Challenge for the “ECM” Vendors
I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, but I’ve been a tad busy. Then today, I saw a post over at the Real Story Group by the ever-so-wise Alan Pelz-Sharpe. In that post, he talks about the High Cost of Support, and how it seems to be rising. It is a great… Continue reading
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The ECM Innovator’s Dilemma
So I promised an ECM specific follow-up to my book review on Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma. There is a lot to talk about, so I’m not going to blather on with a long intro (though this sentence seems to be compounding the issue) and get right to it. Or not…I have some disclaimers/notes: Going… Continue reading