Quick Links, Oct 19

• Perspective ... Product vs. Platform ... Steve is thinking about products vs. platforms in the collaboration market. He argues that "future enterprise wide upgrades will be difficult to justify", and that people who can deliver enterprise-wide business improvement in an easy-to-achieve way will be in high demand. Steve Richards


• Product ... Exchange Server SP2 ... Microsoft released Service Pack 2 for Exchange Server 2003, which includes bug fixes, mobile email improvements, and mobile device security enhancements, among others. Available immediately. Computerworld


• Product ... Vorsite Enterprise Toolkit 2.6 ... Vorsite Corporation released Version 2.6 of Vorsite Enterprise Toolkit for Documentum, for enabling SharePoint to act as a front-end to the Documentum enterprise content management system. Supports plain WSS (no SharePoint Portal Server required), and users can instantiate Documentum workflow processes from the SharePoint interface. Available immediately. 24-7pressrelease.com


• Finances ... EMC Corporation ... EMC reports 3Q2005 results. Documentum, its enterprise content management software division, "delivered double-digit revenue growth". BusinessWire


• Security ... Oracle ... Oracle released a bundle of critical security patches for its software, including patches for 13 flaws in Collaboration Suite. Computerworld, with details on Oracle.com