FFS SonicWALL being sold. We have a SSL VPN when we got it back in 2006 it was Aventail they were purchased buy SonicWALL, in turn purchased by Dell, and now to be sold again! Dell support and development of it has actually been pretty good so I hope the new owners continue in the same vein
EMC said to be ditching Documentum business
EMC’s Documentum business may be up for sale, as part of a non-core asset-ditching process during the Dell-EMC coming together. Bloomberg cites people familiar with the matter in a report claiming EMC will spin off Documentum while Dell will sell Sonicwall and Quest as a way of helping to lower the costs of the Dell-EMC …
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Thursday 7th April 2016 14:42 GMT robin thakur 1
Errr. what?
"The general document or information management business simply stopped growing. Certainly businesses needed to keep track of documents and doing so as part of an information lifecycle management process seemed a good idea, but it was a structure that never became really popular. People generally preferred to manage a business’s digital information in separate silos, such as mail, Notes databases and the like, rather than employing an over-arching superstructure."
Have you never heard of a gigantically popular platform called...SharePoint??!? Granted Livelink/Content Server and the like might have hit the skids, but they are as a sector still doing well.