In case you're not aware of it, the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 is in Las Vegas this week; there's a sold-out crowd (7400 are in attendance-up 92% from last year.) What a great thing for Vegas' economy and, of course, for Microsoft.
If there's an interesting unarticulated thread common to technology conferences this year , it's that competing vendors are speaking/exhibiting at each other's conferences and boasting about how nicely their solutions play together. Last week Larry Ellison's frenemy Marc Benioff (Salesforce.com)spoke at Oracle's OpenWorld (post to come). This week it's EMC sponsoring SharePoint Conference 2009 (SPC2009).
How into SharePoint is EMC? EMC put a press release with the headline "New EMC Solutions Extend Customer Value of Microsoft SharePoint Server" on the front page of its website yesterday This may not seem like a big deal to those who don't follow EMC marketing, but it is; consider that EMC didn't even issue a press release concerning its agreement to offer CSC's FirstDoc as its preferred regulatory compliance application for the Life Sciences industry (see CSC's press release.) In case any EMC Documentum DCM customers missed the announcement, it's time to start thinking about saying ta-ta to DCM.
Getting back to EMC's declaration of love for (aka interoperability with) Sharepoint, EMC's Bill Galusha blogged long and hard about the subject yesterday. The short story is that EMC has built a number of Sharepoint connectors including:
