I noticed that IBM has recently announced plans to acquire Internet Security Systems, Filenet, and Webify among others. I have worked on several projects over the years using Filenet, but have no experience with the SOA Webify. ISS makes security “appliances” and network security software.

Content management is hot, and likely to remain so, Filenet’s acquisition will help IBM balance against EMC’s acquisition of Documentum and Legato last year.

It is also a market area that Microsoft has not made much of a move into. Which only makes me wonder what their strategy will be to enter the content management arena with? I doubt they will stay out of the market, it’s a boom market and should be capable of generating significant revenue streams for some time to come, so I imagine they will have an offering soon.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Robert Porter