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Stellent the Toolmaker

17-Dec-2001

What do portal and enterprise CM vendors Open Text, FileNet, Hummingbird, Quark, iPlanet, SAP Portal, and IBM have in common? They all use Stellent's "Outside In" content viewing and conversion tools to convert 225 different desktop file formats to XML and (mostly) HTML. Perhaps one of the reasons why Stellent remains profitable amid a sea of CM red ink is that it does more than just mine gold -- it sells picks and shovels, too...
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    Excerpt from the Universal Content Management Evaluation

    Web Content Management Evaluation Stream looks at... Idoc Script in Oracle Universal Content Management

    "Idoc Script -- developed originally by Stellent as a page language -- is simple, VB-like, and has been extended by Oracle with new methods (so it's not going away any time soon). You can use Idoc for a variety of purposes. However, because Idoc Script is a proprietary language, in a world that's turning more and more in the direction of open standards, developers who have experience with this one-off language are increasingly hard to find. It's certainly not a great career builder for your own engineers, although some of them will need to learn it, regardless..."
    (p. 232)

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Tags: Web Content & Experience Management, Selecting Technology, Vendor Viability & Financials, Universal Content Management