Oracle UCM on vista

Pleasant surprise, UCM can run on vista home edition. I did install the Content server and site studio on my laptop. But on a single box things do get cranky some times. Some times Idc Services fails to start up with ERROR:1064, possible reason for this is that your database is not handling content server requests as expected.
After restart it was business asusal.

Is UCM better placed than rest of the Gang?

         I am no high profile analyst, these taughts are purely from the trench. Is Oracle UCM offering better placed than FileNet or Documentum?
         Documnetum guys are still converting there basic doc management code to services, and stoping support for there earlier version and forcing business to migrate to new expensive versions. Thanks to oracles backing now UCM can be integrated with there other fusion middleware products like SOA, BPEL processor, weblogic server.
         For the FileNet folks they were never a major player when it came to WCM, in case you are looking for a intranet site integrated to your document management solution you end wirting the custom application interacting with FileNet.
         One draw back for UCM was the relatively large learning cruve required to integrate with existing J2EE apps, as you had to do things UCM way instead, with RIDC's introduction curve is a bit more smooth.
         Let me know what you think are the features that will clinch deals in favor of UCM

Lets Talk about search!!!

Continuing my product bashing.. (God I like doing this) this time we will look at UCM search. Search box have become as important as navigation bar for websites. Who has time to go through good old site map. Users come in key in the word and hit search button. Now if you have purchased UCM and building your website you should decide on the search strategy for your website upfront to avoid surprises. People should be educated that out of the box will not work like Google or Yahoo. Oracle has not spent enough time on this. There are enough literature available on Enterprise search and its maturity in ECM products, I am going into that.

But simply put this way; you cannot go with 'out of the box' search functionality. For starters they wont return best results. They return last updated content items. You cannot rig search results. You cannot say, when ever some one searches for a dog, this should be the first result etc. Search key word highlighting is another issue. This requires a customisation.. Lot of other short comings.

So what will you do. Luckily Google comes to rescue here. Wait for some time for Google to index your website and then go for Google Custom search. This is at a nominal fee you can integrate to your website for ad-free search results. Integration is pretty straight forward and requires minimal customisation.

Advance Profile editing

While I was still chewing to write on how to create a profile and use in your content server John has put some advance editing instructions for profiles here.