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Tuesday, Sep 28 2004

Announced today, version 3.7 of open source Content Management System (CMS) TYPO3 includes enhancements that simplify administration and authoring of multi-language sites.

Including up to 40 languages, the TYPO3 has added Catalan, Bosnian and Korean to the list of user interface languages. Extended Contextual Help and a variety of core improvements offer new features for developers using the TYPO3 framework to deploy content management solutions.

TYPO3 is an open source Content Management system built upon PHP and MySQL.

Canadian Web Content Management (CMS) vendor webEdition, Ltd. has recently made a generous offer. They are providing webEdition Standard Version at no cost, to educational institutions in North America. All other webEdition products and modules are being discounted 25% for research and teaching purposes.

CommVault Systems, a provider of data management solutions, has announced that CommVault Galaxy backup and recovery software, part of the CommVault QiNetix suite, will provide enhanced data management services for SharePoint Portal and Windows SharePoint Services' sites.

A key part of the solution is the ability for customers to perform individual, point-in-time document recovery.

Monday, Sep 27 2004

INSCI Corp, a leading provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, today announced its Channel Marketing Solution.

The solution, available as installed software or via INSCI hosted services (ASP), enables companies to accelerate their global channel marketing programs; reduce or eliminate marketing distribution costs; increase visibility and market share through each distributor; and improve productivity through the intelligent reuse of content for campaigns worldwide.

Moreover Technologies, a leading provider of aggregated content and news, has announced that Bradbury Software will integrate Moreover RSS (Rich Site Summary) news feeds and news search within its FeedDemon RSS reader application.

There are certain words you need to ban the use of, and "busy" is one of them. In knowledge-driven economies, "busy" is an outdated word that reflects a manual labor approach to work. Instead of "busy" you need to use words such as "effective" and "productive".

I have spent my working life telling people how busy I am. Sometimes I'm just busy, sometimes I'm really busy, and sometimes I'm so busy I don't have time to think. But what do I really mean when I tell someone I'm busy? It's basically that I'm doing a lot of stuff. I could be busy doing it well or badly, but that's not the point; the point is that I'm busy, I'm active.

Intranet and Content Management specialists Step Two Designs have today announced the Intranet Roadmap. The Roadmap is a set of tools and diagrams that guide project teams through strategy, design, content, change management, and technology decisions.

Launch of the Intranet Roadmap demystifies the process of developing (or redeveloping) a corporate intranet.

Friday, Sep 17 2004

Oracle OpenWorld arrives in December and this year they'll be unveiling an Enterprise CMS product. Oracle's foundation is structured data, in this area they have clearly excelled. Their unstructured data management products such as OracleFiles have not done as well, but things are changing and as we predicted in January, Oracle is making its play in the ECM ring.

Wednesday, Sep 15 2004

CrownPeak, a leader in hosted content management solutions (CMS), today rolled out a new program offering state, county and local government entities up to a 33 percent discount on its Advantage CMS™ content management software. They further announced bundled services for government agencies, designed to meet their unique accessibility and design compliance needs.

Stellent, a leading provider of content management solutions, recently announced its Records Management solution has received U.S. DoD 5015.2 - STD Chapter 4 certification for the management of classified records.

The certification verifies that Stellent's product complies with U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) 5015.2 - STD Chapter 4, which is essential for any federal government organization that manages classified records or documents.

Thursday, Sep 9 2004

In what appears to be a bit of a reverse on Nokia's previous statements, they today announced a collaboration with Blogging leader and maker of Movable Type, Six Apart.

Nokia and Six Apart announced that they are collaborating to create a powerful near real-time Blogging experience. Mobile web logging (MoBlogging) is one of the most dynamic areas in content sharing today. MoBlogging enables people to publish content -- text and/or pictures -- to the web, using just a mobile phone.

TypePad's, Six Apart's hosted blogging service, will be providing an enhanced set of media features that have been designed by Six Apart and Nokia to enable blogging from your mobile phone.

Wednesday, Sep 8 2004

Zope Corporation, a leader in open source content management (CMS) space announced today the launch of Zope Japan Corporation. Zope Japan will deliver web content management (CMS) services, solutions and products throughout Japan and to other parts of Asia.

The organization will be headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo and is a group company of Open Source Japan, Ltd.