And the mergers and acquisitions continue…. As analysts have been saying for months, infrastructure companies are buying up the content management pure plays and calling ECM infrastructure. IBM recently announced that they are buying FileNet. That leaves Vignette, Stellent and Interwoven, and BroadVision for companies like Sun, HP, RedHat, Novell, etc. to fight over. I don’t know who is going to pair with who but if I had to guess…
- Sun buys Vignette
- Novell buys BroadVision
- Red Hat buys Alfresco
- HP buys Interwoven who buys Stellent
- Google makes them all irrelevant
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Seth,
Interesting speculation on who buys who. I guess I do not completely agree with you thinking on Google. I have not seen Google make any moves into the ECM space yet.
I would think IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle make them your list irrelevant
What I was thinking about when I mentioned Google is that they have a way of changing the game. For example, with Google Desktop, their search appliance, Google Analytics, Blogger, etc. they are shifting the dynamics from centralized enterprise software to targeted hosted applications that are so compelling they get adopted at a grass roots level. Once adoption is secured, there is so much potential to aggregate information into centralized appliances to establish robust repositories.
It’s going to be intresting see what IBM and FileNet brings to CM market. I have been waiting news from Microsoft when do they buy another CMS company since MS CMS has been total disapointment.
Perhaps you are right about Google, they seem to ROCK on everything they do and now is the time to enter enterprice market.