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The Web CMS Report 2008 looks at... A Different Microsoft Platform for Enterprise Search

"Microsoft says it has invested heavily in search, betting it will become a main foundational component of many solutions. At the same time, the company in early 2008 moved to acquire long-standing enterprise search vendor Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), for $1.2 Billion. In justifying the acquisition, Microsoft executives cited FAST's talent and technologies. FAST is a complex (and very expensive) system, pieces of which may end up in MOSS, but in the long run, look for Microsoft to re-brand it as a separate product for larger, enterprise search scenarios. Among other challenges for Redmond, much of FAST's technology runs on very non-Microsofty Java and Python. "

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CMS Watch Plots Map to Content Technology Vendor Landscape
2008 Edition Shows Diversity of Global Marketplace

BOSTON, MA, USA -- CMS Watch, an independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies, released a "Content Technologies Vendor Map" today at the 2008 AIIM Expo. Patterned after a subway map, the free, downloadable PDF shows how 60 major vendor "stations" sit astride eight different technology "lines."

The map is available at http://www.cmswatch.com/vendormap/ -- in low-res JPG and high-res PDF formats. See

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http://www.cmswatch.com/images/CMS-Watch-Subway-2008.pdf

"Our customers frequently ask us to distill a complex technology landscape into simple terms," explained CMS Watch founder, Tony Byrne. "This map shows the diversity of players across various content technologies, but also how some lines converge and diverge unexpectedly among different vendors."

The "city center" is bounded by Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, EMC, and Open Text. Other vendors radiate out from there. "While the likes of IBM and Microsoft can represent central transfer stations, clearly the broader landscape is marked by a plethora of smaller, focused vendors selling best-of-breed products," remarked CMS Watch analyst, Theresa Regli. "No single line is dominated by the major infrastructure vendors."

The 60 vendors on the 2008 map represent a subset of the more than 100 vendors that CMS Watch evaluates across its different technology reports (http://www.cmswatch.com/Reports/).

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CMS Watch™ is an analyst firm that provides an independent source of buyer's advice on content technologies. Through highly detailed product evaluation reports, CMS Watch sorts out the complex landscape of potential solutions so enterprise project teams can readily identify and assess technologies suited to their particular requirements. To retain its independence as a vendor-neutral analyst firm, CMS Watch works solely for solutions buyers and never for the vendors it covers.