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Well, another year has gone by since I started BetterECM.  Wow, how time flies.  Writing posts for BetterECM continues to be a very valuable experience.

This has been a significant year of change. For myself, a big career change leaving the vendor world (software or solutions provider) to that of a major customer with global needs. I am still getting my arms around this massive challenge. For the industry, the changes in the marketplace continue with the recent announcements this past year: Autonomy acquiring Meridio in October 2007 and HP acquiring Tower Software in March 2008.

I am still struggling to post more often, but my new role at BP has made writing posts consistently difficult. I will strive to improve.

Here are some interesting statistics as of today:

• Total Views: 110,606
• Best Day Ever: 575 Readers — Tuesday, August 14, 2007
• Totals

• Posts: 160
• Comments: 254
• And the most interesting metric: 43,435 spam comments

Looking forward to the next year…

I had the pleasure of speaking at a joint AIIM and ARMA event in Chicago last week. Joyce Osborn organized the event and did a fantastic job gathering over 150 attendees.

Even though the weather was raining last Tuesday, the audience was lively and had great questions.

I have posted the slides I presented at Slideshare.net or you can view here if you click through to my Blog.

Alan Pelz-Sharpe has a good post discussing the acquisition of Tower Software of Australia by HP: HP expands archiving, e-discovery, and compliance portfolio with acquisition of Tower Software.

I have been anticipating Tower Software being acquired by somebody for over three years.  At one point, I thought HP would acquire Open Text. Hmm, I wonder if they went after Open text and the price was too high?

Anyway, I will be interested to see what HP will do with Tower combined with their Integrated Archiving Platform. I will be skeptical of the combined solution due to the limited scalability of Tower Trim. When I speak of scalability, I am referring to supporting a global organization with tens of thousands of users spread across the globe. This scenario is not easy to support.

I saw this post last week when I was trying to catch up from my recent travels: Peter O’Kelly’s Reality Check: Toshiba’s HD-DVD going the way of Betamax | Technology | Reuters.

I have been waiting to see who would win the  war. Anyway I decided to wait and see who might win and I was glad I did.

This weekend I was at one of the warehouse stores and they had both the Sony Blu-ray player and the Toshiba HD DVD player. The Sony was $380 and the Toshiba HD DVD was $75.  The funny things was that the employee that asked if he could help me had no idea that anyone buying the $75 HD DVD player would be buying something that will be useless in a month or so

Well, this has been a long time coming. I am happy to see that Microsoft finally released the DoD 5015.2 Add-on for Moss 2007 a couple weeks back while I was trekking around the UK and Europe.

I am proud of the work our team did in creating the new features for the MOSS Records Center last year.  The extremely collaborative nature of the project and development with the Microsoft  Product Group using the SCRUM agile methodology during the project showed me the possibility of a high performing team with this methodology.

I plan to implement the MOSS Records Center with the Add-on in the next several months.

Here is the Microsoft Post: Announcing the DoD 5015.2 Resource Kit for SharePoint Server 2007.