Today's highlights: Update on Vignette; Zimbra Beta Release; Microsoft on Mid-Market; AfterMail RSS-Enables Email; Intellext Watson 2.0;
- Computerworld spoke with Thomas Hogan, CEO of Vignette, about the current and future positioning of the company. Key take aways: (a) ECM is a strategic priority for customers, and (b) managing all forms of content is important, and an underlying relational database is key. ComputerWorld US
- Zimbra released the beta of Zimbra Collaboration Suite 2005, its open-source collaboration offerings for Linux. Provides email, contacts, and group calendaring, and provides browser-based access. Available immediate for customer testing. Comment: The positioning as a "collaboration offering" isn't quite right ... it's an "enterprise messaging" play that can compete against Exchange and Notes, but it can't compete with the collaborative application development capabilities of Notes/Domino. LinuxElectrons, PC World
- Microsoft held a mid-market strategy event yesterday, outlining its goal to offer a complete solution to mid-market customers. Wants to bring the "simplicity" of Office and Windows to the broad IT needs of mid-market customers. Comment: Simplicity? I didn't think that was the right word. Between the Lines, BetaNews, InformationWeek, SearchCIO
- AfterMail added RSS support to its name sake email archiving and email application system. Enables users to subscribe to certain words, phrases, and email addresses within the AfterMail store, for immediate notification by RSS of moment-by-moment changes. Available immediately. AfterMail
- Intellext announced general availability of Version 2.0 of Watson, its Pillar 7 product offering for individual users. New features: sidebar display (instant snapshot of related information), information source wizard, more integration with desktop search applications, and greater application integration with Microsoft Office, among others. Available immediately. Intellext
This Briefing was written by Michael Sampson, of Shared Spaces Research & Consulting Ltd. Email or IM Michael to discuss any of these items further.
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