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ECM & RM: How do they differ?

By Dick Weisinger

Records Management and Enterprise Content Management have a lot in common and often RM systems are built on top of ECM components, but they’re different. A great article by SmeadSoft details and contrasts the differences between ECM systems, Records Management…

Alfresco: Open Source Alfresco 3.0 Release

By Dick Weisinger

Last week, coinciding with the swearing in of a new president, Alfresco made the announcement of its ‘Inaugural release’ of Alfresco 3.0 Labs edition.  The new software includes a host of new and interesting features: – First implementation of the…

Open Source: Not Much of a Difference for Java

By Dick Weisinger

A little more than two years ago, in November 2006, Sun announced the Open Sourcing of the Java development language.  At the time, Sun was pressured by the user community and by companies with large investments in Java tools and…

ECM: Interwoven Acquired by Autonomy

By Dick Weisinger

2006 saw a huge boom of acquisition and consolidation activity among Enterprise Content management companies. Last week Thursday UK-based Autonomy announced a cash offer to acquire Interwoven for $775 million.  Interwoven had just closed out the fourth quarter with $10.7…

ECM: Forrester Lists SharePoint Limitations

By Dick Weisinger

Microsoft SharePoint has taken the lower end of the ECM market by storm.  Its tight integration with Microsoft Office products and its low cost of entry has enticed many organizations into giving it a try. In a new report, Forrester…