Rev. Hallman read this a few weeks ago and it really struck me. William Henry Channing was William Ellery Channing's nephew, BTW.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony. -- William Henry Channing

9:42:08 PM    

EMC Buys Documentum. Execs at storage vendor EMC had been hinting for some time that the company was going to become a software player. Well, they accomplished it in one fell swoop by buying Documentu... [CMSWatch Trends and Features]

I was surprised at this acquisition. I'm hoping ECM will sink some cash into Documentum's QA and support areas which are probably universally underserved among software vendors.

9:34:18 PM    

Open Source Moves Beyond Software. Open source is doing for mass innovation what the assembly line did for mass production. The era when collaboration replaces the corporation is coming. By Thomas Goetz from Wired magazine...The Internet is open source's great enabler, the communications tool that makes massive decentralized projects possible. Intellectual property, on the other hand, is open source's nemesis: a legal regime that has become so stifling and restrictive that thousands of free-thinking programmers, scientists, designers, engineers, and scholars are desperate to find new ways to create.[Wired News]

9:26:00 PM    

Content software scramble ahead?. <CMSWire> This is a good article describing some of the impact of the Documentum acquisition by EMC and how the ECM market is going to be shaping and shifting in the coming months. Future acquisitions by other storage and infrastructure... [cms~wire]

I agree. A good overview and some insight on how it might affect the rest of the market.

9:18:10 PM