Alan Greendyk, a very talented developer from a large financial services firm, took third place and $10 K in the Documentum 6 Web Services Developer Challenge contest with a Flex and LiveCycle application. The app that Alan built was a Flex application that interacted with LiveCycle and allowed people to easily publish documents into Documentum, and also easily search that same Documentum repository. I was shown the application last week, and was impressed at how easy it was to use (having used Documentum in the past) and the fact that the app was built by one single person.

EMC released a press release of the contest today, and I noticed that the second place finisher was also an RIA application. Five developers used the Google Web Toolkit to build an RIA UI to Documentum. Its great to see two Rich Internet Applications taking two of the top 3 spots in the contest. It does appear that RIAs are gaining attention with large enterprises - Flex had great success at the Salesforce.com event a while back as well.