{"id":128,"date":"2006-11-03T08:17:23","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T16:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2006-11-03T08:17:23","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T16:17:23","slug":"oracle-ecm-consolidation-continues-with-stellent-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/oracle-ecm-consolidation-continues-with-stellent-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle: ECM Consolidation continues with Stellent Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"

One week after a highly-attended and successful OpenWorld<\/a> conference\u00a0and one week prior to AIIM’s\u00a0ECM West Conference<\/a>, Oracle<\/a> announced<\/a> yesterday their purchase of Stellent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The announcement comes as a surprise, at least to us.\u00a0 Oracle has been heavily promoting the use of their Oracle Content DB as middleware for ECM vendors to adopt as\u00a0a foundation layer for applications.\u00a0 In June Open Text announced<\/a> support for Content DB.\u00a0 I later had heard rumors that Stellent also had plans to adopt Oracle’s Content DB, but there\u00a0has been\u00a0little public indication from Stellent that this would happen.<\/p>\n

The Stellent purchase comes just one day after\u00a0an updated partnership\u00a0announcement<\/a>\u00a0between Open Text and Oracle that allows both companies to more easily distribute each others products.\u00a0 It’s hard to know\u00a0how the Stellent announcement would affect the Open Text relationship.\u00a0\u00a0Most likely\u00a0Oracle\u00a0has been\u00a0pursuing both companies and Stellent came through.\u00a0 But having announced support for Oracle’s Content DB, the Stellent buyout may now put Open Text in an awkward position.\u00a0 Maybe Open Text is still a acquisition candidate for Oracle?\u00a0<\/p>\n

SAP, HP, and Microsoft are all also possibly looking for acquisitions in the ECM\u00a0space too, but the field has narrowed now\u00a0to a group consisting mostly of smaller, but highly specialized, niche players over the last few months.<\/p>\n

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One week after a highly-attended and successful OpenWorld conference\u00a0and one week prior to AIIM’s\u00a0ECM West Conference, Oracle announced yesterday their purchase of Stellent. The announcement comes as a surprise, at least to us.\u00a0 Oracle has been heavily promoting the use…<\/span><\/p>\n

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