Ironworks' David Roe, a technical lead/architect in the enterprise content management group and author of the popular blog Content on Content Management, was quoted today on InfoWorld.com giving his opinion on Oracle's two new product announcements of the Universal Online Archive application and the Email Archive Service. 

"I think what Oracle is trying to do with [Universal Online Archive] is develop an infrastructure application that will sit behind all of the other systems and allow retention and retention policies to occur and be managed centrally," noted Roe.

"Where I think they are doing it right is by not trying to force companies into replacing their current applications," he added. "I don't think anyone would be interested in another Exchange or another SharePoint just to implement better compliance software."

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