A variety of perspectives on the Vignette acquisition by Open Text
And from Twitter World...
- @Chanezon = OpenText
buys Vignette (via @mocy) commoditization song: standardization (jcr),
opensource (jackrabbit), consolidation. Prepping for oracle?
- @Ipomoclast
= Vignette bought by opentext... Finally someone did!
- @blane1 = This
is how it ends, with a whimper.
- @PJZargar = Open
Text to acquire Vignette. OT now has two competing/overlapping WCM products:
RedDot and Vignette. only one will survive!!!
- @yuvalararat
= The vignette Open text Wedding... well there is not much to say but lets wait
and see.
- @rotkapchen
= Oddly, I actually 'did' know that Vignette was still around, but only because
I was handed a card w/logo at recent Tweetup : )
- @skemsley = I
knew that Open Text was, but didn't know that Vignette was still around.
- @sml_qad = What
now?!?!
- @markusgiesen
= Doesn't Vignette compete with RedDot? And I wish I had some Vignette shares.
- @cuneytusal
= So many staff have left Vignette for OpenText / RedDot, it means that they
will have a warm welcome!
- @jochra8 = Open
Text to acquire Vignette - makes things easier.
- @Bluedoors =
E2.0 just got a boost. Open Text buys Vignette.
- @SimonSays =
open text buys vignette for $310M, i guess it was just a matter of time!
- @mrcruce = OpenText
buys Vignette. Social enterprise beats the static enterprise. #E2.0
fence-sitters: the ROI ("risk of ignoring") went up.
- @JohnNewton
= Vignette was the sick man of CMS. So how does that strengthen OpenText unless
they bleed it dry?
- @JimMurphyamr
= Just finished first take on open text vignette: "ECM heavyweight or
island of misfit toys?" but I like the move.
Might be of interest...
John,
Check this piece out if you haven't already.
http://bigmenoncontent.com/2009/05/06/open-text-the-new-ca/
-Pie
Posted by: Laurence Hart | May 07, 2009 at 07:35 AM