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Now that the acquisition of Captaris by Open Text is no longer an intention but a fact, what does the Enterprise CMS giant plan to do with this Washington-based provider of document management and delivery solutions?

For organizations who have invested in Oracle Universal Content Management and want to expose its content to other systems and applications, EntropySoft has created a connector just for you. And it's bidirectional to boot.

If you use Oracle's Enterprise Search product and would like to see it integrate searches from a wider variety of sources then you are in luck. MuseGlobal is offering a solution called MuseConnect for Oracle Secure Enterprise Search that lets you tap into a much wider range of content sources without leaving the safety of Oracle search itself.

According to a recent study by the 451 Group -- an independent technology industry analyst company -- the pure, non-hybrid open source is, apparently, not a viable business model. Addressing the ever-so-popular question of how to make money from something that’s in its foundation free, the analyst company assessed the development, licensing and revenue-generation strategies used by open source. At the same time, we’ve noticed that software giants like Microsoft started playing friendly in the open source space.

Oracle comes to rescue the Enterprise 2.0 corporate bees with its new solution dubbed Beehive that aims to allow employees to collaborate through electronic workspaces, calendar, IM, e-mail, voice mail and conferencing applications. All of that is done in the name of collaboration and the ability to easily share and simultaneously work on documents, e-mails and multimedia files.

During the Coherence Special Interest Group meeting in London, Oracle announced the start of the Coherence Incubator project - a new online repository of projects that provides reference implementation examples for commonly used design patterns and integration solutions based on Oracle Coherence.

This article discusses the BLOB feature in the database and the author shows on how any file can be stored in the BLOB field of Oracle and can be displayed as an save as attachment dialog box.

MySQL’s Kaj Arno writes a post titled: “On Loyalty, Competition and Underdogs” where he draws parallels from the Oracle / MySQL competition to his son’s list of reasons to stay with Bayern Munich or why to switch to TSV 1860 (two German soccer teams).

In a move the company is billing as its first foray into the hardware business, Oracle Corp. said Wednesday it will begin selling server computers that come with its database software pre-installed.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a provider of Internet data storage and delivery services, is expanding options for developers and enterprises looking to host their databases on the AWS cloud computing platform. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), a scalable web service solution offered by AWS, is now the first authorized cloud computing platform to run supported Oracle databases.

Alero Technology, a provider of Enterprise Information Management (EIM) software products, launched Alero 2008 R1 ECM system with Oracle 10g and 11g support, enhanced compliance, electronic signature management, process simulator and a new .NET library.

Just yesterday, some major enterprise content management industry heavy weights -- Microsoft, IBM, EMC, Alfresco, Open Text, Oracle and SAP, announced the first ever Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification draft enabling interoperability across content repositories. By creating a common API, companies can develop write-once, run-anywhere, content and social applications. As a contributing member of the draft technical specification, Alfresco is able to offer a draft implementation of CMIS for developers who can peruse and explore the draft specification.

It doesn't come as a surprise that three of the major Enterprise Content Management (ECM) providers -- EMC, IBM and Microsoft -- have been secretly developing a technical Enterprise CMS specification. Their super secret project is called the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) spec. A fancy new acronym it is, but beyond this is it really the beginning of a brave new world for content management interoperability?

Savio posted a blog entry a little while ago that I missed until now (yes, I’m way behind on my RSS feeds). Anyway, after reading my blog post here on Microsoft’s annual report statements regarding risk from open source, Savio went and looked up what other software vendors state in their annual reports regarding potential business risk from open source software. The results are indeed interesting. Check out Savio’s analysis here:

CMS Watch has a pretty interesting content management vendor map (see link below), laid out in the format of a subway map, which makes for intriguing viewing. The diagram is overtly enterprise-oriented, and links vendors according to their scope of operations across various content management arenas like Enterprise CMS, email archiving, DAM, XML management, etc. It's interesting to note that there are five main 'Hubs' -- extending the subway metaphor -- of vendors who can provide pretty much everything. Microsoft, IBM, OpenText, EMC and Oracle.