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EMC News and Poorly Written Headlines

There were three big pieces of news mentioning EMC this week:

1. 1)EMC's sales slumped 9.2 percent from the year-ago quarter to $3.15 billion, $100 million below the Thomson Reuters consensus forecast
3. 2)EMC said it's looking to cut most employees' pay by 5 %
5. 3) Joe Tucci said Oracle (NSDQ:ORCL)'s planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems (NSDQ:JAVA) will be a game-changer

Which of these statements are causal in nature? If you vote 1&2, then I'd reckon to guess you are right. If so, what's up with the headline below?

EMC to cut salaries because of Oracle-Sun deal

Talk about misleading the reader!

Forgive My Rant

Thanks to all who answered our Linkedin poll, "Documentum Managers: Does EMC Certification Matter When You Hire?" The conclusion seems to be "not so much." You can click here to see the real time results.

One of the nice things that has happened while conducting this survey is that we've both spoken to, and received back-channel e-mails from, folks who wanted to give us their two cents on the subject. Almost everyone said that certification is not enough, that Documentum and its application tends to be quite complex, and that a broader skill set is required.

That being said, I did get at least two responses that suggested that certification might be a huge plus when companies in need of Documentum resources didn't have in house expertise to conduct a technical interview.

EMC CenterStage- Keeping Enterprise Information Safe in a Collaborative World? (and what happens to eRoom ?)

Quick note: We are in the process of moving our website, so please excuse any odd typefaces or colors. We'll have a much simpler site very soon. That being said...

A new comment on one of my older posts sparked my interest, for a few of different reasons. First, because it came from an intelligent ECM professional (and former EMC employee), and second because it wasn't self-promotional in the least.

If you don't feel like clicking over to the original post, I'll clue you in; Brian Shin aka "shiningarts" had this to say about 2.0 technologies, eRoom, Documentum and CenterStage (I've edited one political comment out because I don't want it to be a distraction.)