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Panelists: Content management, meet social networking	28 November 2007
Enterprise content management and social networking form a natural nexus that is already taking tangible form, a software executive said during a panel discussion Wednesday at the Gilbane Group's annual conference in Boston."People have real requirements to secure information, but also have a demand to interact with people," said John Newton, CTO of Alfresco, an open-source content management software maker. "We are starting to blur the lines between what's inside the enterprise and what's outside the enterprise."Panelist David Mendels, senior vice president of Adobe's enterprise and developer business unit, echoed the idea. "The biggest single shift we're seeing is from the infrastructure of content management to humans -- to how humans engage with it," he said. "The real question is, what experiences are you going to build for your end-users, and how are you going to securely connect that back to your back-end systems?"David Boloker, CTO of the company's emerging Internet technology group, touched upon security concerns as well. "When you end up in the Facebook world or the Web world, you have to ask yourself, is that information correct? Do you have to annotate it, do you have to clean that information?""There are people out there who will try to take your information or plant a worm," he added.Mendels predicted that enterprise rights management software for securing content will see wider use. "We've talked about this for a while, but I think we're really on the cusp of it starting to accelerate," he said.Beyond addressing bottom-line concerns, such as security, enterprises will soon be compelled to apply social-networking principles in a wider range of areas, said Andy MacMillan, vice president of product management in Oracle's enterprise content management division. "The Web is going to lead the way, but pretty soon, you're going to be talking about the call center, the checkout kiosk at the airport -- how do I personalize those things?"Panelists took questions following the main discussion. One audience member asked them to render an opinion on content management's adoption rate around the world.Newton said lower-cost options have diversified the roles of content management software: "We see content management being pulled into types of applications it normally wouldn't have been before.... It's changing -- it's much more democratized. It's not so much about compliance."Mendels said hosted content management services, such as Adobe's Share and Buzzword offerings, will see faster growth outside the U.S., particularly among SMBs.Panelists at one point peered into their respective crystal balls. Mendels said Adobe's goal moving forward is "creating applications and experiences that keep people in context."Ideally, he said, the current practice of jumping among e-mail programs, instant messaging services, and the phone would be no more. "We see a world where you should have all those experiences tied to one document," he said.Mendels gave the example of a person sending an e-mail that prompts the recipient to return the query by phone. "Instead of picking up the phone and calling you, the document can call you," he said.Boloker pointed to mashups, saying they represent a new "application paradigm we're all walking into." IBM is working on a drag-and-drop mashup development environment called QEDWiki, which Boloker demonstrated for IDG News Service following the panel discussion.MacMillan said enterprises must now focus on not just cataloging their structured and unstructured data, but also applying analytics against it. "I think the next big step for content management from the infrastructure layer is to turn BI loose on it," he said.But Newton's take centered more on philosophy than a given technology. The Web 2.0-social networking boom has unleashed a "wave of creativity" that stands in contrast to "introverted, left-brain thinking" types, in Newton's view. "What our industry needs to do is get out of our left-brain, introverted mindset," he said.
IBM loses server market share to rivals HP, Dell, Sun	28 November 2007
HP,  Dell, and Sun made significant gains in the worldwide server market at IBM's expense in the third quarter, Gartner said in a report issued Monday.Despite losing market share due to an 8.1 percent drop in revenue and 3.9 percent drop in shipments, IBM issued a press release claiming success, noting that it still holds a slim lead in market share revenue.The popularity of server virtualization hasn't significantly affected overall server sales. Worldwide, shipments grew 8.7 percent over the previous year's third quarter, with 2.2 million units delivered, for revenue growth of 2.6 percent. The server market started growing in the second quarter this year after three years of stagnant sales, a previous report by IDC said."Underlying market dynamics such as growth from emerging markets, coupled with an ongoing demand for increased capacity, are stronger than any inhibitors such as server virtualization," Gartner analyst Errol Rasit said in a press release.HP made the biggest gains, delivering 649,958 server shipments, 20 percent more than the previous year's third quarter. HP was already making the most shipments but solidified its lead over second-place Dell and third-place IBM.IBM earned more server revenue than any of its rivals, despite making 319,674 third-quarter shipments, fewer than half the number delivered by HP.HP did narrow IBM's lead in revenue market share, growing revenue 13.9 percent to $3.7 million. IBM revenue dropped 8.1 percent to $4 million, for a slim lead over HP -- 30.1 percent to 28.1 percent - in revenue market share.Dell and Sun posted double-digit revenue increases but are still a distant third and fourth place in market share, according to Gartner's statistics.The 8.7 percent increase in worldwide server shipments was driven partly by growth in the x86 and blade server markets, both led by HP, which shipped 91 percent more blade servers than the previous year's third quarter.IBM was able to increase revenue for System p and System x, but lost revenue for its System z mainframes  and System i midrange servers.The company nonetheless touted the popularity of its System z mainframe, saying it led the market in revenue for servers priced at $250,000 or more."We believe IBM's eight consecutive years of leadership in the worldwide server market is a testament to our commitment to technology innovation for our clients," Bill Zeitler, senior vice president and group executive for IBM Systems & Technology Group, said in a statement.Network World is an InfoWorld affiliate.
Verizon Plans Wider Options for Cellphone Users	28 November 2007
Verizon Wireless plans to give customers more choice in what phones they can use on its network.
Sarkozy tries to restore order	28 November 2007
French president Nicolas Sarkozy was trying to restore order Wednesday after three consecutive nights of rioting caused widespread damage and injuries.
Young inspires emphatic Villa win	28 November 2007
Ashley Young inspired Aston Villa to their fourth consecutive victory and left them within touching distance of the Barclays Premier League's top four with a sparkling 4-0 win at Blackburn.
Mortgage options shrink for “unconventional” borrowers	28 November 2007
The latest survey from Mintel, the consumer research group, states that 5.5 million (or one-third) of UK mortgage borrowers are facing severe financial difficulties because of increased costs. The Mintel survey found that nearly 1.5 million borrowers have fallen behind with their monthly mortgage repayments and could therefore be categorised as sub-prime by future lenders. Others [...]
The new tsar of Russia: Putin I the Eternal?	28 November 2007
C. CEM OUZ As Russian President Vladimir Putin's term ends in 2008, the world is discussing his next possible move. Will Putin try to hang on to power? Will he indeed seek to change the constitution to lift the ban on a third consecutive term, or modify
'Best of' compilations targeting Christmas shoppers	01 January 0001
One of the unwritten rules of the music industry is to release an excessive number of compilation albums during the last quarter of every year, in order to offer more options to Christmas and New