 groove really has people running scared oh shit here comes that groove thingy run for your life original message from mr fork fork_list hotmail com to fork spamassassin taint org sent friday october NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER pm subject documentum acquires e room melding content collaboration don t know much about eroom but there is the magic phrase collaborate in real time groove really has people running scared wonder if any users actually benefit from collaborating in real time URL content management vendor documentum said late thursday it plans to acquire privately held e room technologies in a deal worth about NUMBER million documentum will issue approximately NUMBER NUMBER million shares of its common stock and pay about NUMBER NUMBER million in cash for all of the outstanding shares of eroom documentum makes a platform for enterprise wide content management eroom makes tools for enterprise collaboration its customers include airbus bausch lomb ford motor co and sony documentum announced plans this summer to deliver a new collaboration edition of its content management suite eroom was already integrating its tools to the documentum platform making an acquisition an easy target according to documentum president and ceo dave dewalt with the upcoming joint product customers will be able to collaborate in real time via virtual workspaces sharing schedules resources and even jointly creating content content creation and management has always been a collaborative task but workflow has usually been delivered via a web browser interface or even simple e mail and rarely in real time for now documentum will sell the eroom platform and its own content management system through combined sales channels further integration is planned down the line the companies said 