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According to IDC's latest study, the Content Management market in the Asia/Pacific excluding Japan region is expected to grow steadily at a five-year compound annual growth rate of 14.8%, reaching US$ 362.0 million by 2012. In comparison, the market value in 2007 was US$ 181.8 million.

A battle is brewing for a piece of some increasingly lucrative tech turf: Enterprise Content Management Systems (ECM). Analyst group IDC posits that the global Content Management market is growing at a steady rate and that software revenues from the segment will reach US$ 5.9 billion by 2010. The trend clearly has not gone unnoticed by the major players and over the course of the last 12 months we have seen significant movement in the market as the players position themselves to grab their share - and perhaps a little of the other guys’, too.

Amazon’s search startup, A9.com, has launched a new service called Open Search and it may shake things up a bit. Read on to see how this new open standards search offering works and how it might impact the industry.

A9 is a late-comer to the search engine wars and has always had its work cut out, trying to find a distinction with a difference. Search results come from Google and supplemented by information form theAmazon.com database, the Internet Movie Database and GuruNet. Considering that the results generated by querying A9 are all drawn from other sources, A9 has always been forced to differentiate itself with its feature set.