Open Text: More SharePoint Love
October 9, 2008
Open Text is the Canadian conglomerate that has moved far beyond Tim Bray’s SGML database. I have met 20 somethings who did not know that Open Text used to offer a Web search system. You can refresh or refill your knowledge base here. The company has a flotilla of search systems. These range from the Information Dimensions’ BASIS system to the Fulcrum engine to various systems gathered when the company acquired such properties as IXOS. Unlike some Microsoft Certified Partners, Open Text is boosting its product offerings for SharePoint. IDG publications such as InfoAge in Australia have reported “Open Text Storage Services for SharePoint, the latest addition to the company’s Open Text Content Services product offerings. This new enterprise-class service lets customers store Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 content in external storage devices, while at the same time reducing wasted space by automatically detecting multiple instances of the same content. The solution helps customers increase the scalability of their SharePoint solutions and reduce storage costs.” You can read the full story here. In my experience with the “new” Microsoft, the company is in flux. Will Microsoft offer substantially similar storage services? I don’t know. That’s a risk Open Text seems comfortable taking. If it works, Open Text could punch through the $1 billion ceiling in FY2009.
Stephen Arnold, October 9, 2008
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