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Microsoft leaves Linux-based FAST customers stranded

09-Feb-2010 | By Kas Thomas | All Search Trends

Buyers of the Linux and UNIX versions of FAST's Enterprise Search Platform (ESP) got some bad news the other day: It'll now be necessary to switch to a Windows server platform, or else move to some other product for enterprise search ... Read more

Search fares well in sluggish economy

08-Feb-2010 | By Adriaan Bloem | All Search Trends

At times I get the feeling the content technologies aren't affected by the economic downturn. Some of the vendors we cover have come out with early reports on their performance over 2009, and so far the news is good ... Read more

ROI calculations are a joke

08-Feb-2010 | By Alan Pelz-Sharpe | All DAM Trends

Our colleagues over at Forrester recently undertook some interesting research regarding content management investment attitudes in 2010 (DM, RM and WCM). The overall finding was along the lines one might expect ... Read more

An iPad for DM and RM?

05-Feb-2010 | By Alan Pelz-Sharpe | All ECM Trends

The launch of Apple's iPad last week has caught the imagination of armchair critics worldwide ... Read more

Alterian drops Immediacy

04-Feb-2010 | By Adriaan Bloem | All CMS Trends

Software vendor Alterian has cleared up which Web CMS software it wants to try to sell you in the future. In short, all of their alphabet soups going forward will taste like Morello ... Read more

Non-disclosure is a non-starter

04-Feb-2010 | By Kas Thomas | All DAM Trends

We've mentioned this a time or two before, but in recent dealings with a well-known WCM and DAM vendor there seemed to be some confusion about it, so perhaps it bears discussing one more time. We have a policy at CMS Watch of not signing NDAs with the vendors we evaluate ... Read more

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