Documentum and EMC: Is it Kismet or Contrivance?

摘要

Like many of you, my initial reaction to the announced acquisition of Documentum, the largest enterprise content management company, by disk drive giant EMC was "What the...?" Naturally, in the immediate aftermath we got the usual pundit blather about how this consolidation was "inevitable." (Those guys probably also called AOL-TimeWarner inevitable.) Inevitable or not, the $1.7 Billion sixe of the deal, along with EMC's efforts to redefine the market space around the concept of "information lifecycle management" (ILM), suggests it's time to step back and take a fresh look at what it means for content management users, and for the industry as a whole.