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Yesterday EMC, IBM, and Microsoft jointly announced Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) – a new specification designed to enable interoperability between content management repositories. The proposed standard, which was also being submitted to the open standards consortium OASIS yesterday, will create a common interface for accessing content stored in compliant repositories, simplifying the process of [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 by adminCisco today announced its acquisition (which is expected to close by the end of October) of email and calendaring startup, PostPath, for the princely sum of approximately $215 million. The PostPath offering is Linux-based, and has been designed to drop into a Microsoft network as an alternative to Exchange, with the company claiming to offer [...]
Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 by adminUncategorized
Courtesy of InternetNews on Tuesday I learned that IBM has added support for OpenID, Windows CardSpace and Eclipse’s Higgins Identity Framework to its Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (FIM) offering. As one of the enterprise identity management heavyweights, IBM’s announcement is an important endorsement of user-centric identity approaches. Such approaches are still in the formative phase [...]
Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 by adminUncategorized
Microsoft has acquired Canadian cryptography specialist Credentica. This news sees Microsoft reverting back to its more traditional approach of acquiring small (Credentica is a team of three) specialist technology vendors to plug very specific gaps. In this case, Credentica brings its U-Prove technology to Microsoft’s Identity & Access Group to enhance the privacy assurance capabilities [...]
Posted on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 by adminGoogle is once again treading on Microsoft toes with the launch of its newest product, Google Sites. The new offering allows users to create and manage their own websites, and is based on the wiki technology the company acquired from JotSpot in October 2006. Google Sites is clearly targeted at the market currently dominated by [...]
Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2008 by adminMicrosoft today announced that it has offered to acquire Norwegian search vendor Fast Search and Transfer (FAST) for approximately $1.2 billion, or 19 Norwegian kroner per share. There are two interesting aspects to this. Firstly – assuming the acquisition goes ahead – the removal of FAST as an independent company will leave Autonomy to truly [...]
Posted on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 by adminUncategorized
Perhaps it’s because we’re in the run up to the holiday season or because the press release came from the UK that accounts for the lack of commentary on the announcement that Experian has developed a CardSpace proof of concept with Microsoft. This is notable for a couple of reasons. First it’s another of what [...]
Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 by adminUncategorized
…at least when it comes to discussion on the web. Google announced its OpenSocial social networking API project just 5 days ago – and now the company’s own search engine reports over 7,700,000 hits for “OpenSocial”. And it’s still alpha code! A day earlier, Microsoft announced Project Oslo. And despite the announcement being what Gavin [...]
Posted on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 by adminOracle today confirmed that it delivered a letter to the Board of Directors of BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) on October 9 in which Oracle proposes to acquire BEA for $17.00 per share in cash. The $17.00 per share offer is a 25% premium over yesterday’s closing price of $13.62. This acquisition has been long-discussed [...]
Posted on Friday, October 12, 2007 by adminThe last couple of weeks have seen a wave of product launches and announcements at IBM Lotus, coinciding with the Lotus Collaboration Summit which took place on 18th September. A new version of Quickr is expected in the spring, along with a new product, Quickr Content Integrator, which will enable import of content from Domino [...]
Posted on Thursday, October 4, 2007 by admin
