As promised in their open letter from OpenText to Hummingbird legal customers, the combined entity must improve a much broader and better portfolio of products and services within a short time scale. If not, there is nothing to stop Legal IT directors looking for alternative solutions as their next DMS upgrade. There are reports Microsoft is working on their next version of DMS and SharePoint systems, and if this would give a easy transition and better portfolio, there will be tough competion between present ECM vendors.