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CMS Watch has this interesting post about the new CMIS specification. Roy T. Fielding (one of the *real* inventors of the web and on whose dissertation REST is based) points out on his blog that there are a number of issues with CMIS as it stands today. Among those he lists are:
1) it's not a standard, it's a proposal that hopes to become a standards effort and maybe one day a standard.
2)It's not properly RESTful. After all, REST is not a protocol, it's an architecture. The AtomPub model outlined in the proposal is not *really* a REST binding.
3)It's more a Web Services interface for cross repository document management.
Fielding writes:

CMIS is a classic example of what happens when a control-oriented interface is slapped onto an HTTP-based protocol instead of redesigning the interface to be data-oriented.

In the end, Fielding posits the following:

My bet is that the document repository vendors will continue to focus on making their own native HTTP interfaces more efficient, since that is how customers will evaluate their performance when integrated within heterogeneous architectures.

So I guess he's adopting a wait and see attitude like so many others.

I wonder what BEX and Craig have to say

UPDATE: Sam Ruby has a response here.

You can find more OOW Video Post Cards by going to YouTube and searching or OracleWebVideo. Or simply click HERE.

There is a nice writeup from the gang at CMS Watch about WebCenter, UCM, Portal and strategy launched at OOW. Read it HERE.

X = The HP Oracle ExData Database Machine is available TODAY.

Oracle hardware in the form of the O. Database Machine.
Larry announces the Oracle database machine. Yep, Oracle hardware.
The specs on the performance is HUGE! Aprox 30x performance benefit over similar storage. The X doesn't use traditional storage array. It balances storage service and incredibly fast interconnect.

LISTS for less than 14K per TB out the door. Much less than other vendors. More comparable to disk array prices.

Prediction: this kind of performance is not simply an efficiency enhancement, it opens the gateway to new, more intelligent, more responsive, more process/analytic/query intensive applications.

Where: Moscone West 2nd Floor Book Store
When 2:30pm
What: Reshaping Your Business With Web 2.0
Who: Billy Cripe, Jean Sini, Vince Casarez

Please Join Me, Vince and Jean at the Oracle Open World Bookstore today at 2:30pm for a very special book signing. We are releasing our new book: Reshaping Your Business With Web 2.0 today.

If you can, come to our session about the book and its themes at Marriott Salon 05 at 1pm.

We Hope To See You There!

This morning I had the opportunity to attend the Oracle Publishers Seminar. It was a really great event. Tech and Business publishers like McGraw-Hill (who published my book Reshaping Your Business With Web 2.0 Amazon link, Kindle link) were there along with many others. Also present were fellow authors from many different industries and practices. I sat with fellow authors Kent, Michael, Avrom, and Charles. My colleague and fellow author Frank Buytendijk was there talking about his new book and the principles behind it.

The seminar was an opportunity for Oracle executives to brief the publishers of what is out, what is coming and what the opportunities for new books may be. Ultimately the publishers (and authors) figure out what they want to write. But the briefings were detailed and very informative. We heard presentations and briefings from Andy Mendelson, Steve Miranda, and others.

Overall there seem to be opportunities to write and educate and inform on:
-Using oracle in the cloud
-Compositing with SOA and BPM and Fusion Middleware
-Development tools
-Building Web 2.0 applications
-Enterprise Security
-Fusion Apps (yes, they're out and continuing to come out)
-Oracle Enterprise Manager and the new coolness in there

I have to give a shout out to Frank Buytendijk though. His presentation on Management Excellence was fantastic. The crux of the presentation was that operational excellence is expected these days. While we continue to push operational efficiency and while gains continue to be made on the operational side, there is substantial competitive and economic advantage to bringing intelligence and capability to management. If the pillars of operational excellence are Cost, Quality and Speed, then the pillars of Managerial excellence are Intelligence, Agility and Alignment.

Take a look at his book.

I'm sitting in the nice blogger section of the keynote arena again. This time I'll be blogging the Intel and Thomas Kurian keynote.

Keep refreshing for updates.

Intel President and CEO Paul S. Otellini has a theme of time.

I'm sitting in the bloggers section in the keynote room. Great view. Raimonds Simanovskis is sitting next to me on one side. David Roe is on the other.

Since we're sitting in these sweet seats, I figured I'd better liveblog the event.
So here we go. Keep refreshing for updates.

Safra kicks things off with a yay-rah about how big OOW is. (it's big)
Larry's keynote is Wednesday. Michael Phelps will be here tomorrow morning.
Right now we're starting off with mayor Gavin Newsom. Yay rah San Fran.

Ed Begley Jr talks now. Yay green business. Yay recycling. Yay for public transportation. SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT. Be smart about what you're using. Don't waste. Business and the environment are not competitive endeavors, they are complementary.

Check out the SlideShare on Enterprise 2.0.
LINK

If you want to see Oracle Open World from the YouTube perspective you can go HERE or just search for "OracleWebVideo"

Video Postcards from the FMW lounge are there too...

I'm currently sitting in the Fusion Middleware Lounge in the Marriott basement at Oracle Open World. It's a good place to come relax, recharge (yourself as well as your stuff), and meetup.

Come by and ask for me.

is someone you should read. Link here

He is super smart, and he's a kite surfer. cool.

Sentiment analysis (how we feel based on what we say or write) is a branch (in my mind at least) of entity extraction, business intelligence and semantic web capabilities. Because most sentiment is expressed in unstructured information (speeches, documents, conversations, chats etc) it is very useful to be able to determine the sentiment of the communicator when we are consuming information. As humans we do this almost unconsciously. We can tell when someone is being sarcastic, or is pissed off or is just letting us know about something.

The current political season in the US is ripe with unstructured information full of sentiment. Our Canadian neighbors are taking full advantage of the current season of speeches to test out their algorithms that parse speeches for "spin". Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada is where much of the research is taking place. They put their algorithm to the test against the speeches at the Democratic and Republican conventions and tested for spin. The graphic below lists the results.

You can read more about their methodology and how their mathematical system works in a neat article in New Scientist HERE.

Cognition Technologies has released a (license-able) semantic map for nearly every word and phrase in the English language. It's a brute force approach but a very good foundation. This is commercially available NLP (natural language processing).

However, I'm not sure it knows just yet how to interpret "That was a dope, CRUNK dance yo."

More info on what they're doing HERE

Wayne Boerger and I have a new article out in Computer Technology Review entitled "Enterprise Information Management, Archiving, and Enterprise 2.0".

You can read it HERE.

comments welcome below.

If you missed the quarterly customer update you can go HERE to listen/read what happened.
See you all at OOW!

If you didn't know about them before, you can go HERE and download as-is sample components for Oracle UCM

Well the hand waving around CMIS is in full swing but the actual impact is yet to be determined. CMIS is the Content Management Interoperability Services specification that is being submitted to OASIS for standards ratification (download it here). Oracle is a member of the CMIS community and helped to review/vet/confirm the spec along with others such as EMC, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, OpenText, and Alfresco.

By now you should have read that it is a Web Services/REST/Atom/SOAP specification for getting at your unstructured content regardless of what content management system it lives in. With the CMIS-defined HTTP calls, standard create, read, update, delete operations against a compliant repository are the same regardless of the vendor repository architecture. If this sounds like JCR (in purpose not API) to you then you're on the right track. But while .Net shops were never going to participate in a java spec, CMIS invites them into the fold.

CMIS is the big tent content management specification. Honestly, I like it because, as David Nuescheler point out in the CMS Watch article linked below, "...the arrival of a high-level content protocol that transcends any one programming language..." is a good thing. The reality is that many organizations operate in heterogeneous ECM environments. All of us vendors spend cycles on producing system specific components, web parts, adapters, and agents to talk with, store in, migrate from our competitors' systems. This will make that easier.

What I don't buy (just yet) is that this proposed standard is all that was missing to allow customers to keep their content just where it is and usher in a new and glorious era of enterprise mashups. The standard provides the common baseline of access/retrieval/interaction with unstructured content and its metadata across the participating ECM systems. You can bet the vendors will start here and differentiate on top.

But just the fact that we're all starting here is a very good step in the right direction. Keep in mind that, right now, this is a .5 draft specification so we will see maturation as time goes on and folks sign on.

CMIS Link Roundup:
ZD Net

...there's a heightened need for interoperability between the vast and diverse sources that manage this content. Today's agreement is a major step forward in achieving this goal.

Bex

now I can FINALLY tap-dance on the grave of that awful JSR170 standard...

BMOC

It is not necessarily vendor involvement that drives the adoption of standards. Often it is the success of products that use them that causes standards to take off.

Pie

Customers are important, but it takes a large mass of them to force the vendors to act. I would qualify them as a secondary factor.

CMS Watch

We've heard these sorts of claims made before, of course.

Craig Randall

I’m optimistic about the kind of emergence with the announcement of CMIS.

InfoWorld

...an API that can be used to develop write-once, run-anywhere, next generation content and social applications.

ECM Stuff

I truly hope all the vendors put their money where their standard is

Information Technology News

The main aim of CMIS is to considerably reduce the IT burden around multivendor, multirepository content management environments