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June 1, 2006

Symphony Acquires Hummingbird

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Raj

Symphony Technology Group announced recently that it was acquiring Hummingbird for $465M.  This is significant in that another ECM player is being taken off the market though Wall Street thinks that the offer amount was too low.
Hummingbird has steadily been losing market position against the mainstays over the years.  Symphony might be just the right [...]

September 11, 2005

Enterprise tagging, WinFS, and Storage 2.0

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Raj

What is Storage 2.0?
I promise that I’ll get off of the del.icio.us kick that I’ve been on lately. But the functionality employed by del.icio.us partially lends itself in analogical ways into what’s being called Storage 2.0. What is Storage 2.0? It’s the less geeky way to refer to Storage Existentialism. I [...]