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Some care is needed with the term EDMS - it is a generic term for
Engineering Doc Mgt and also as Zohar says EDMS is being used as
the acronym for the application developed by EA and Digital.
Our Imaging IST, part of the Solent EIC, is working on a number
of opportunities in Europe for EDMS solutions in process and discrete
industries (and others..) and have been offering EA's EDMS/RE:SOLUTION
products and CIMAGE (targetted at discrete) in the relevant spaces.
There is a further consideration i.e. the operating system. EA's
product is for VMS, though it's being ported to UNIX; CIMAGE is
UNIX (don't know whether it is planned to port).
A twist in the tail is that the IVVPCU has just announced that
NOVACAD's (CSO since 11/90) EDMS product set is to be offered in this
same space. The application can run on VMS or UNIX and is
fully CDA/DDIF compliant. I foresee that we are going to have some
difficulty positioning these 3 products - and in such a way that
keeps all the suppliers sweet.
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