Documentum eRoom Enterprise Delivers Collaborative Content Management -

Documentum, 2004-03-08: Documentum, the leading provider of enterprise content management (ECM), today announced the availability of Documentum eRoom Enterprise 7.2, a highly flexible collaborative environment that introduces new capabilities that address the collaborative nature of content creation and management. eRoom Enterprise 7.2 provides the ability to generate event-triggered workspaces based on pre-defined business rules, enabling team members to securely collaborate within the context of a process.

For example, an organization could automate a request for proposal submission process by predefining a workflow that involves employees from Sales, Finance and Engineering. When the proposal reaches the approval stage of the process, eRoom 7.2 can automatically trigger the creation of workspaces, pre-configured with appropriate memberships, content and tools, to enable distributed teams to work together in a collaborative environment.

"Documentum advances the notion of collaborative content management with its latest version of Documentum eRoom Enterprise 7.2, said David Coleman, managing director, Collaborative Strategies. "eRoom Enterprise 7.2 hits the mark for delivering a structured environment without hampering creativity, enabling organizations to capture all of the valuable content not typically associated in an often rigid business process."

Read the full Press Release.

The following useful modules aren't working with Drupal 4.3.2 and PostgreSQL

• Subscriptions - allows users to subscribe to topics or specific articles to be mailed if there are new posts.
• Notify - like subscriptions except that its a simple yes or no to be notified for any content updates site wide.

One or both of these modules would help AWG members keep informed and participate in discussions on the site. The other alternate is of course RSS with a feed reader, but I am not sure if that will include comments.

I have posted bug reports on each of these two items. I will include them below and then will update with any troubleshooting.

Notify Bug Report

Subscriptions Bug Report

Okay I worked with Adrian, the postgres drupal maintainer, and the first problem with the susbcriptions module is that no .pgsql table creation was included. So Adrian gave me a dump to use.

CREATE TABLE subscriptions(
  sid      integer not null,
  uid      integer not null,
  stype    text not null
);

The table was created and I was able to enable the module in the web based module administration tool. But when enabled pgsql errors showed up in the browser. So my guess is that the module itself modules/subscriptions.module has some mysql specific calls that need fixing.

Jabber, Inc. has announced a suite of wireless clients for RIM, PocketPC, Smartphone, Symbian and J2ME devices, as well as gateways for WAP and SMS.

Apparently they are currently available for testing, but will be released April 1st.

See the Press Release.

IMT developer Melissa Kadera has put up a weblog, and has recently discovered the joys of RSS feed readers or news aggregators. She wrote up some good information on resources for getting started in this space.

What is the Semantic Web you ask?

The semantic web is a universal medium for the exchange of data... smoothly interconnecting personal information management, enterprise application integration, and the global sharing of commercial, scientific and cultural data.

The principal technologies of the Semantic Web fit into a set of layered specifications. The current components of that framework are the RDF Core Model, the RDF Schema language and the Web Ontology language. These languages all build on the foundation of URIs, XML, and XML namespaces.

For more information, see the W3C's Semantic Web Activity Statement.

Ran across a new Linux News site today. LXer, (pronounced Elexer).

Why another news site? Well this ones attempts to be unique according to the editor, who isn't new to the scene:

I am Dave Whitinger. I worked for Red Hat in 1997, and in 1998 I co-founded Linux Today with Dwight Johnson. After selling Linux Today to internet.com, I worked with Atipa in their web services department until everyone was laid off. For much of 2002, I worked for the good folks at LWN.net, helping them with business development issues after their unacquisition from TUCOWS.

I patiently waited for this day for a long time. January, 2004 marks an important milestone in my history with Linux news, and this is the month that I have been planning my re-entry into this field.

So what makes it different?

1. Driven by an editor who knows and cares deeply about this community.
2. Has a minimum of advertisements, and the few that it has should be relevant to Linuxers. Related to this is that the site should have a very clean and simple layout without any fancy graphics or formatting.
3. Is frequently updated with useful and interesting stories, announcements, reviews, security alerts and editorials.
4. Has a plethora of useful features to make access to the news easy in a variety of ways.
5. Has easy community participation - discussion forums and moderated story submission.
6. Has an open database - our news (including external links) that we are accumulating is available in XML format and readily accessible to anyone who wants it.

I have added LXer to the News Feeds on this site. Its articles will appear in the "Platforms" subject, as well by source.

Jabber has announced the availability of a new major release of their eXtensible Communcations Platform, XCP 3.0.

New Features

• improved hooks for standard SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) monitoring
• support for SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer)
• internationalization features that make XCP ready for localization out-of-the-box
• a graphical controller for configuring the Jabber XCP server

The story was announced yesterday, but I still don't see the files available on our support page. So I can't read the more detailed release notes. I am curious as to how much of the XMPP Core and XMPP IM IETF Proposed Standards they comply with.

Xeon vs. Opteron Performance Benchmarks - QuickSand writes "Anand got his hands on some of Intel and AMD's enterprise processors including 4MB L3 Xeons, and put them to the test. Results were a little varied as 4-way Opteron systems seemed to fare the best, although dual Xeon configurations almost always beat dual Opterons. The exact benchmarks are here." slashdot.org I haven't followed hardware in a while, but it seems to me from reading AnandTech's article, that AMD Opteron's bus speed and performance, especially considering the clockspeed, smokes Intel's Xeon.

There is a quirk on the site where the tracker module aka "recent posts" or "what's new" is displaying unix epoch instead of actual post dates. The tracker is the easiest way to see a list of newly posted content on the site. I have posted a bug report on drupal.org. My theory is that it has to do with some bug with PostgreSQL which less people are using with drupal than MySQL at this point. Update: Found a dupe of the bug here.

Sungard, parent of Sungard Bi-Tech the company behind our ERP system IFAS, has announced plans to acquire Collegis, Inc.

Collegis is a leading independent provider of information technology services to the higher education sector. Collegis offers a comprehensive set of solutions to meet the administrative and academic technology needs of colleges and universities, including technology management, ERP implementation, network management, strategic planning, instructional technology, online and academic services and resource development.

Well I am going to start a workblog. Why call it a workblog? Well I think its a different nature than a personal blog. Perhaps because its not as personal. After all, how much do you want to expose about what you do at work? Perhaps blogging is an effective tool for a Christian, because it causes you to think about the way you should say something, if said to the world. I wish that were true of what we say in private, or behind someone's back... as if, in those circumstances, we are no longer representing Christ. I am not going to promise I will post something of the "workblog" type in this space every day. But I would say that at least every friday it would be good to write down something meaningful about the week. Most of what you will see here, will be related to a broad range of IT topics. So this week? Well I might be too fried to describe it. The most important thing this week was launching this site, so that the [AWG] can collaborate and communicate its research. We'll see how this medium works for the [Password Reset] Process Improvement, which will take much of my time the next two weeks. The other big time consumer this week was lengthly meetings kicking off the Graduate Web Registration project, a project essential to the rising goal of self-service. Also working with a project team to get APU policies on the Web, where all things must go. The most nostaligic part of the week was laying to rest the old RS6000, apolis, that ran the library system for the last 12 years. One of the first boxes I was responsible for SysAdmin'ing and really my only AIX experience. It also, unless I am mistaken, still holds the record for the box with the longest uptime at 429 days. Of course that means I was a bad SysAdmin because I didn't reboot for patches etc., but thats part of the problem with a half-vendor managed box. But still I have respect for Unix, and IBM hardware, for a system to run that long, getting pounded very heavily every single day.