Pending Releases from EMC

Today I am completely wondering about the Software Release strategy of EMC. They potentially have now two collaborative products but each of them needs urged to be updated.

The situation about eRoom is well known. It has now been 8(!) years that eRoom was bought by Documentum. eRoom V6 was the latest product at this time and eRoom Technology prepared for the release of eRoom 7.
Some of my readers might remember that we had a major Release of eRoom every year and about four minor Release for every major release.

The release of V7 was delayed due to the fact that the documentum connector had to be built into the product. This was the last major enhancement to eRoom and we have not seen any new major release or significant change to the product since then.

The latest official release is 7.4.2 and this release neither supports IE7 or IE8. So the latest supported version of Internet Explorer is V6, this a version that microsoft doesn't want you to use.

I know that there is a patch that brings support for the latest versions of Internet Explorer to eRoom, but this is just a patch and it still seems that eRoom is not very well maintained and a release is immanent.


The situation about CenterStage is different. The product is new to the marked and compared to SharePoint, which is a competitor, EMC has to catch up.
I know that there was recently a service pack, but there it seems that there is almost no marketing from EMC.
There are customers that are asking, sales teams that are trying to sell and partners that are waiting. But there is nothing from EMC, not even a word.
To use CenterStage as an eRoom replacement lots of features are required in CenterStage. To use it as an competition against SharePoint the product needs do evolve.


So it is strange to see that EMC does not provide a new version for at least for one of their collaborative products.