Yesterday I attended a BEA webcast about the future of its AquaLogic User Interaction (ALUI) portal platform.

Even EMC|Documentum has to respect SharePoint. Today, EMC announced plans to integrate more closely with a variety of Microsoft server products.

The tool that so many organizations used before they invested in a CMS or Enterprise Portal is going away.

In a recent article in Intranet Journal called Sharing, Collaboration Highlight Office 2007, Troy Dreier outlines the impact that the major new Office release from Microsoft will have on intranets.

Last week Microsoft acquired privately-held Whale Communications in a move designed to help enterprises tame the security problems caused by proliferating Web applications.

A savvy EMC|Documentum integration partner shared an observation recently that some new Documentum customers were opting for the company's collaboration product, eRoom, for basic document management.

Last week portal vendor BEA announced new products for Microsoft SharePoint integration.

Historically, never the twain have met. But that is changing with Office and SharePoint 2007.

My colleague Steve Arnold recently blogged in these pages about how recent delays in Windows Vista and Office 2007 will impact the search marketplace, while other commentators have examined implications for the IT market at large.

Search engine vendors Coveo, dtSearch, Endeca, Fast Search & Transfer, Google, and Mondosoft, among others just did a little dance for joy.

Microsoft's collaboration and portal product is quite different from the other portal offerings.

At a couple of major clients recently, we puzzled over the lack of higher-end content and document management tools that would fit well into their .NET-based architectures.

In a move to try to win a bigger share in the collaboration market, Microsoft has announced a series of free tools to help customers switch from Lotus Notes/Domino to Exchange and SharePoint.

Microsoft was late to both the Web CMS and Portal marketplaces, and did not get either right at first, but now Redmond seems to be moving ahead rapidly.

From Microsoft blogger Arpan Shah comes more hints about the future of Microsoft CMS 2002 (MCMS).