Autonomy terminates the WCM market

When Autonomy announced to acquire Interwoven the discussion started about what will be the impact on Interwoven. What was interesting to see is that the pure-play WCM vendors celebrated this as a great opportunity to highlight the lack of focus on web solutions the combined business may or may not have going forward. Look at CMS Wire for some very interesting quotes.

But will there be a stand alone WCM market going forward? Two of the three largest WCM businesses are now part of greater ECM companies (Autonomy, Open Text) . I would even go one step further and claim that majority of the WCM market share is now with larget ECM vendors. If that holds true we might finally see the long expected market consolidate to happen.

So who is next? Well, I would rather ask the question: who is last? If the stand alone market is reaching an end you don't want to be the last one left ...