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Entries from May 2007

Premise validity can change

May 31st, 2007 · No Comments · Lessons

Although I’m not a fan of Digg, I nevertheless appreciate the following quote (originally in Business 2.0 magazine and more recently referenced in ComputerWorld) from Jay Adelson, Digg’s CEO: “A lot of companies are afraid to touch their original technology, to reconsider the premise on which they started the business. But when you stop doing that, [...]

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An open letter to Jetbrains about Omea

May 30th, 2007 · 17 Comments · Lessons, Open source

From: Craig RandallSent: 5/30/2007 7:45:19 PMNewsgroups: jetbrains.omniamea.eap, jetbrains.omea.reader, jetbrains.omea.pro, jetbrains.omea.devSubject: When will the source finally become open for Omea?
Omea Team-
Many months ago Jetbrains announced that Omea was going open source. However, to date the source is still entirely closed. There has been very little explanation about the lack of follow-through (timely or otherwise) concerning progress [...]

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Documentum Foundation Services

May 26th, 2007 · 31 Comments · Content management, DFS

Earlier this week I presented Documentum Foundation Services to a full house at SDC07. I see that John Newton picked up my post. (BTW, I very much agree with John that EMC could do a much better job of opening up the event, both to those in attendance and those unable to attend,  by blogging. [...]

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Opening in Orlando

May 21st, 2007 · 2 Comments · Content management, DFS

Today at EMC World 2007 I had the privilege of talking in depth about a new product from EMC coming in the forthcoming EMC Documentum 6.0 platform release: EMC Documentum Foundation Services (DFS).
I think that the presentation was well-received judging by the interaction with my audience both during the session and in the following Q&A. It [...]

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John Mayer and the Lorax

May 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Inspiration, Life

Some of you noticed that not too long ago I changed my site layout and theme. Among the stylistic changes were new header graphics. “What exactly am I looking at?” you might be wondering. Well, I’m a fan of Dr. Seuss (e.g. see this). I’m also a fan of John Mayer, thanks to my brother [...]

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