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Byline: Kim Thomas
Stellent buy divides the ECM market
Kim Thomas
The content management market has further consolidated with Oracle's acquisition of Stellent. It comes at the end of a busy year in which OpenText acquired Hummingbird and IBM acquired FileNet.
With the imminent launch of SharePoint 2007, Microsoft will be jostling for a share of the ECM space alongside Oracle and IBM. As giants start to trample over their patch, it wouldn't be surprising if smaller, specialist players such as Vignette and Interwoven started to feel a bit nervous. But are they bothered?
The answer, according to Larry Warnock, chief marketing officer of Vignette, is a firm, "No." Warnock's view is that the market is dividing into two distinct segments. "One of those is more enterprise-class solutions that are highly tuned to vertical industry problems." The other consists of companies offering ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Stellent buy divides the ECM market.