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Saturday, Jan 31 2004

More on Stellent's acquisition of Optika:

From IT-Director.com

...Stellent paid $10 million in cash and 4.1 million in Stellent shares for Optika, valuing the company at $59 million and creating a combined value for the two companies of approximately $100 million. The acquisition of Optika by Stellent is yet another confirmation of the aim of enterprise content management vendors to provide a full range of capabilities that support the entire document management life cycle from creation of documents to archiving and deletion.

Thursday, Jan 29 2004

According to a recent Jupiter Research report, 80 percent of companies surveyed have already deployed portals or plan to deploy them in the near future. Yet portal rollouts have been harder than the "simple, out-of-the-box dream that portals seemed to sell in the late '90s," says Nate Root, a senior analyst at Forrester Research.

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Tuesday, Jan 27 2004

iWay Software, an Information Builders company that accelerates business integration and the world's leading adapter vendor, today announced that its Adapter Framework has been tested and approved by IBM for use with IBM DB2 Information Integrator software. iWay's adapters add over 100 additional data sources, including packaged applications and legacy databases, to the long list of sources DB2 Information Integrator can federate.

End users can now send one request to DB2 Information Integrator and seamlessly query multiple systems. For example, an end-user request for customer information might require data from relational databases, content repositories, CRM applications, and ERP systems. DB2 Information Integrator determines the optimal access plan, divides up the query, relays relevant individual source queries through the iWay Adapter Framework to various back-end systems, aggregates the responses, and returns a single answer set to the user -as if it all were a single database.

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Tuesday, Jan 27 2004

This is a rant, plain and simple. Ok, so I read lots and lots of news nearly every day. My news is all about WCM, ECM, IDM, DM, LMS etc. etc. I guess I enjoy this stuff.

What I cannot grasp is why companies that make their living selling CMS software and services miserably fail to manage their own content. Here's what I see on a regular basis: a company press release is written internally, the press release is edited, reviewed, and finally approved.

Next, what happens? The press release is sent out to the news wires and depending on how much you're paying, is broadcast in various places on the Internet. Hey this all sounds good so far.

Monday, Jan 26 2004

Or in other words, RedDot is moving down market a bit as the big boys such as IBM, Microsoft, and Vignette begin to exert more pressure in the SMB space.

RedDot has launched what they call the RedDot Extended Content Management Suite (XCMS).

From the vendors mouth: "The first comprehensive content management solution designed for the mid-market, XCMS offers companies a comprehensive solution for managing content, fostering collaboration and automating business processes in a way that, until now, had only been possible for large enterprises."

Friday, Jan 23 2004

Vignette Corp. today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire TOWER Technology Pty Ltd (www.towertech.com), a leading enterprise document and records management vendor. The deal is worth $125 million in cash and stock.

The takeover should help Vignette expand its portfolio of Web site content management and portal services by adding Tower's document and record management products. The company said it will pay $45 million in cash and hand over 29.8 million Vignette shares worth $80 million.

Tower's products include TOWER IDM - an integrated document processing system, Seraph - a records management product geared towards compliance, and Web Capture - a capture and playback system for web sessions and transactions.

Those of you familiar with the Movable Type publishing system will also know the term "permalink". A permalink is a permanent link to a content object as stored in the MT system.

The gravity of this concept alone is worth considering, but is not the point of this entry. I just ran across a great article on future proofing your permalinks. The angle here is that perhaps MT's permalinks aren't all that permanent.

MT geeks will enjoy this step-by-step how to article on future proofing permalinks. Non-MT geeks might find it interesting to sit back and consider implications and power of permanently addressable content objects.

Wednesday, Jan 21 2004

Gerry McGovern, the prolific and widely-respected Irish web content expert and author of several books on the topic has published his top 10 predictions for the WCM business in 2004.

Gerry has been a trustworthly voice in the industry since 1996. In recent history he has been a holder of many seminars and publisher of numerous articles on content, writing for the web, and content management. The predictions he makes here are no less than poignant. Nerds, managers, and publishers alike should all have a read.

Tuesday, Jan 20 2004

JBoss(R) Group LLC, provider of the most popular Java(TM) application server, today announced the availability of Nukes on JBoss, an open source content management system (CMS) entirely based on Java. Led by Julien Viet, a full-time consultant for JBoss Group, the project grew out of the company's efforts to port PHP/PostNukes to Java and plug-ins with the aim of offering users an open, high performance system equipped with advanced functionalities.

Making the most of J2EE's rich platform and JBoss' own assets, the Nukes on JBoss project has enriched the popular PostNukes CMS with advanced functionality that dramatically improves scalability, robustness and performance to handle enterprise-class web sites. The development of a group management platform falls within the strategic framework of JBoss, which aims to provide all Java users with a comprehensive and dependable set of tools that can be integrated into their current information system.

"Among the open source solutions currently available, Java or otherwise, we were unable to find a single product that met our functional and performance needs," stated Sacha Labourey, general manager, JBoss Group Europe. "Nukes on JBoss perfectly illustrates JBoss Group's mission to design and offer new-generation architecture for everyone. With Nukes on JBoss, they are assured of having a comprehensive and proven solution at their disposal."

Advanced Features & Functionality

Saturday, Jan 17 2004

San Antonio-based software developer GlobalSCAPE on Friday announced that it has established a new Web content management service that the company will host on behalf of client companies.

Earlier in 2003, GlobalSCAPE introduced PureCMS on the market. The company designed the product to allow non-technical employees to manage the content of their companies' Web sites without having to go through a Webmaster.

The new component of the content management service will allow companies to run the PureCMS application remotely from GlobalSCAPE's data center in San Antonio.

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Wednesday, Jan 14 2004

Sybari Software, Inc., the authority in secure messaging and collaboration, today announced their leading antivirus and content-filtering, Antigen 7.5 for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies has gone gold. This latest addition for Sybari's Antigen fully supports Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and enables companies to take advantage of new and enhanced features including document filtering capabilities, real-time protection of multiple SharePoint Document Libraries and seamless integration with Microsoft SharePoint Virus Scanning API.

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Tuesday, Jan 13 2004

Obinary updates free Java-based Enterprise-Content Management System (CMS) to include highperformance caching and server-side image resizing templates.

Basel, 13 January 2004
Two months and 10’000 downloads after the first public release of Magnolia, Obinary is proud to announce the immediate availability of Magnolia 1.1, the free Java-based Enterprise-Content Management System (CMS). Main new features are high-performance caching and new example templates including server side image resizing. Magnolia installers and updaters for all major operating systems are available for download at www.magnolia.info.

Obinary has released Magnolia 1.1, the free Java-based Enterprise-Content Management System.

Magnolia 1.1 includes an improved caching mechanism that works seamlessly and automatically to deliver the best possible performance for dynamically created web pages, while maintaining full authentication mechanisms. This makes serving even large and complex web and intranet content extremely fast.