A technical overview of the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification submitted by EMC, IBM, and Microsoft to OASIS. It covers the data model and a basic set of content management services. Part 1 & Part 2
SDL Tridion and JCR: A marriage made on Java
I have been quiet on my blog for sometime which I never like because I often feel the urge to type and to rant. However, I have been channeling my mental efforts into looking at the combination of SDL Tridion R5.3 and a JCR repository. The Content Repository API for Java (JSR-170) is a Java…
Ian Truscott responds to evil genius Kas Thomas
Ian Truscott has responded to evil genius Kas Thomas‘ ways of making us waste time by revealing damaging information about ourselves… 🙂
Kas Thomas comments on the draft of CMIS
Kas Thomas has commented on the draft of CMIS. Indeed allot of what he says makes interesting reading. I am working round to reading up on this but I am behind on all my activities. More time in the day I say!
10 Things About Me
I’ve been sucked in. Kas Thomas seems to know me too well already, I won’t back away from something like this when there is so much fun to be had. Kas already seems to have done my dream, learning to fly and seems to have suffered what people learning to fly or just flying have…
Status.net aims to do what Twitter can’t
Chelsi Nakano has recently published an article on CMS Wire about Status.net. For those who have no heard, Twitter is not the only micro-blogging tool out there. I little while back I blogged about Yammer and its advantages to an enterprise and its ability to network groups of people together which ultimately helps knowledge sharing.…
ECM Vendors throw in the towl…
CMS Watch has to report that the ECM vendors have given up on trying to get enterprises to manage their content and they say they should now just to revert back to the old methods used in the good old days. Remeber the F: drive? It’s back, this time as unindex and unusable as it…
Vignette posts its Enterprise WCM Vendor Meme
Vignette has posted its reply to the reality checklist for vendors posted on CMS Watch a few weeks back. When Vignette posted their answer to the reality checklist, they pointed out that maybe it was not really for them. Now the vendors that responded to the last meme as well as those who did not…
Japanese CMS Vendors
Whilst on my travels in the CMS world I am lucky enough to get opportunities to interact with customers from many different countries and in doing so I often like to know more about the challenges facing their region. One of the things discussed is what vendors are active in their region and of course…
When Should you Not Use a WCM System?
I recently picked up a copy of a book on Web Content Management with a certain “leading” brand of WCM software. Now, I shall skip who the book was by and even which software it is talking about, but I was happily flicking through and I came across the section “When should you not use…