EMC announces support for CMIS, what does this mean to you?

I know many of you have been tracking progress in Enterprise Content Management standards for quite some time.

Today, EMC, IBM and Microsoft announced support for the emerging Content Management Interoperability Standard (CMIS)

We've set up a CMIS community in Labs, where you can read the specification, view technical overview videos, and learn more about CMIS.

What do you think about having a common standard for accessing content stored in disparate content management platforms?
What does this mean for the kinds of projects/products that you work on?
Do you think that this will have the same kind of effect/adoption that ODBC had on database community?

What say you all?

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Comments

AlanZ

Craig Randall just posted a blog entry about the CMIS announcement.

Pie

I've also got a quick post up that is the first in a series. This is a good thing overall and I think it is worth everyone's time to try and learn more.

craigrandall

As I've stated in my post and also in comments I've left in others' CMIS posts, I'd love to hear from the community in terms of what it thinks about CMIS, the challenges it needs to address, topics to cover in more depth, etc. Essentially let us know what you expect from both the standard itself and from EMC as a leader in implementing the standard. Thanks in advance...

phdctm

I'm also awaiting comments on this. Will it be another JAS (where is the buzz ?) based on top JSR 170 or alike ? Some other information from Alfresco: http://www.progilibre.com/Alfresco-participe-a-la-1ere-version-du-standard-de-gestion-de-contenu-baptise-CMIS_a679.html (in french, but you can have a look at the bottom links for additional information). Here is the essential news (translated):

Today, Alfresco offers a sneak preview of the following project:

1. CMIS REST and Web Services linkings allows client applications to connect to the repository content Alfresco, navigate inside it, read and create content

2. Language query CMIS type SQL to query the repository (location, properties and full text)

3. Testing package to check the CMIS compatibility tests / compliance on REST linkings

For EMC what would be the roadmap ?

Pie

Craig, I've got a list of what an ECM-SOA standard needs to accomplish. In the next few days, I'll be doing a comparison and then I'll share with everyone. I don't expect everything in this first iteration, just a start.