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Content Management Heavyweights Discuss the Platform Wars at Gilbane San Francisco: Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, EMC Face Off in Discussion of Dominant CMS Offerings

For Immediate Release:

Cambridge MA, June 12, 2008. Representatives of leading content management companies Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and EMC will convene in San Francisco to discuss, “Platform Pros & Cons.” The session, part of the Gilbane San Francisco Conference on Content Management, will be held on Friday, June 20th, 10:15 - 11:30am, at the Westin San Francisco. Speakers include:

  • Lubor Ptacek, Senior Marketing Manager, EMC
  • Michelle Huff, Director, Product Management, Oracle
  • John Grillos, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, IBM
  • Evan Richman, Senior Product Manager, SharePoint, Microsoft.

Tony Byrne, Founder and Principal of CMS Watch, will moderate the panel, one of the first of its type to feature senior representatives from each of these companies.
 
“This is a rare opportunity to hear from all of these important companies at one time,” said Bill Trippe, Lead Analyst at Gilbane and Track Chair for the Content Technologies and Strategies Track.  “We can now say that the long-predicted platform wars are upon us. We’re thrilled to have each company represented and to have Tony Byrne moderating the session.”
 
For more information about the conference, please visit the conference website at http://gilbanesf.com/
 
About Gilbane Group, Inc.
Gilbane Group Inc. is an analyst and consulting firm that has been writing and consulting about the strategic use of information technologies since 1987. We have helped organizations of all sizes from a wide variety of industries and governments. We work with the entire community of stakeholders including investors, enterprise buyers of IT, technology suppliers, and other consultant and analyst firms. We have organized over 50 educational conferences in North America and Europe. Information about our widely read newsletter, reports, white papers, case studies and analyst blogs is available at http://gilbane.com.

About Lighthouse Seminars
Lighthouse Seminars' events cover information technologies and “content technologies” in particular. These include content management of all types, digital asset management, document management, web content management, enterprise portals, enterprise search, web and multi-channel publishing, electronic forms, authoring, content and information integration, information architecture, and e-catalogs. http://lighthouseseminars.com

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