Craig’s Musings

While I’ve been saying “see em eye ess” for CMIS up to this point, I’ve discovered that others are pronouncing CMIS “see miss” instead.

One’s pronunciation of SQL has been offered in support of pronouncing CMIS (i.e. “see qul” versus “ess queue el”). (I say “see qul;” so perhaps I should be saying “see miss.”)
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Today my EMC colleagues Dr. David Choy and Patricia Anderson presented CMIS to SOA World attendees, “An Industry Effort to Define a Service-Based Interoperability Standard for Content Management.” They were kind enough to let me post their work here.

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Today, EMC announced new releases of EMC Captiva products (i.e. EMC Captiva InputAccel 6.0 and EMC Captiva Dispatcher 6.0). I want to address the benefits of service-oriented infrastructure related to capture as embodied by these new releases.
The big deal with SOA and InputAccel 6.0 (IA6) is the connectivity it enables with other enterprise applications.
Capture depends [...]

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My colleague, Don Robertson, has finally succumbed to my constant encouragement (er, barrage) to blog publicly. Even better, Don’s put several of his previously behind-a-firewall posts into the public domain. If you want to know about business objects, aspects, smart containers, etc. in the EMC Documentum ECM platform, you’ll definitely want to subscribe to Don. [...]

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On Monday EMC announced Atmos. While I was in flight, returning from a short vacation, a number of my EMC colleagues blogged about this new offering. I’d like to draw your attention to their posts as follows:

Steve Todd first offers, among other things, a concise definition of Cloud Optimized Storage (COS): “global storage with a [...]

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