I am glad that CMIS will be there soon, and Alfresco will move to it , and also Microsoft work with EMC will work with CMIS also. read this link http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/cmis/default.mspx . This is a good start, but of course as the "Smart Evil", we must monitor, will Sharepoint implement another spec that make the product is CMIS++.. Content Management Interoperability Services is a good tech, and I wish there will be a plugins for Alfresco in Eclipse or Netbeans or IDEA. so we can use Alfresco as CMIS Services, so developer can use it. As reference, take a look of netbeans and liferay services in Websynergy project, so you can get the liferay as services outside tomcat as your container... ...