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April 2009 - Posts

Oracle owns an Office Suite, so now what?

Posted Thursday, April 30, 2009 5:08 PM by loufranco
One of the big advantages that SharePoint has is that it’s tightly integrated with Microsoft’s Office suite. This is something that some vendors (like Alfresco and us with Vizit Scan to SharePoint ) have recognized and have worked to implement the same Read More...
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Document Storage: Database Blobs or the Filesystem

Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:27 PM by loufranco
About a year ago, I wrote about some of the technical issues around image storage in a database – mostly I concentrated on some of the implementation issues. Over at, Never Talk When You Can Nod , Andrew Chapman has been laying out the case for taking Read More...
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Northeast User Group Summit

Posted Monday, April 27, 2009 5:01 PM by loufranco
I’m headed to the Northeast User Group Summit on Saturday in Boston. I’m involved in the Western Mass Developer Group and Western Mass .NET – I think some other members from both are making the trip. If you’re from Western Mass or otherwise want to meet, Read More...
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Jeff Shuey on the Microsoft Partnership Ratio

Posted Thursday, April 23, 2009 11:30 AM by loufranco
Jeff Shuey has put 16 years in the ECM space working for Microsoft and Microsoft partners, so when he talks about the partnering with Microsoft, it’s worth paying attention to.  Two recent posts caught my attention: First, Jeff talks about how partners Read More...
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Windows 7 Starter is Designed So That You Won’t Want It

Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:45 PM by loufranco
Microsoft is releasing a version of Windows 7 that is meant for netbooks in developing countries that need an entry-level version of Windows. To do this, they limited the OS to running three applications at once. Ed Bott at ZDNet has done some testing Read More...
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Please read if you are interviewing at Atalasoft

Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 9:32 AM by loufranco
Almost two years ago, I wrote this about preparing for interviews : So please, before your next interview, follow this simple checklist. Know what the company does, who its customers are, how it positions itself. Find out who will be interviewing you, Read More...
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Open Source ECM following SharePoint’s Cues

Posted Friday, April 17, 2009 9:00 AM by loufranco
This Redmond Developer article on Open Source SharePoint challengers to SharePoint is not so much about how Open Source is competing against SharePoint, but really how Open Source is joining with SharePoint to change the whole ECM landscape. Rather than Read More...
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SharePoint Designer 2007 is Free

Posted Thursday, April 16, 2009 4:43 PM by loufranco
Andy Dale has a great article about getting started with SharePoint Designer now that it’s free . Of course, the best tips are that SharePoint Designer is very dangerous – you need to be careful. I have had access to Designer, but now that’s it’s free, Read More...
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