Content Management Matters ™

Home > Archives > January 2005

Wednesday, Jan 26 2005

Yes, free. Its nice when you find amazing information resources like www.codeproject.com. Its even nicer when participants put together lucid articles *and* provide you with functional, working code that can augment ongoing efforts.

One always has Telerik as a trustworthy source of components, but occasionally a freebie comes in handy too.

McLaren Software, a vendor specializing in engineering content management applications, and FileNet a provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Business Process Management (BPM) solutions have announced the availability of McLaren Enterprise Engineer for the FileNet P8 ECM platform.

Enterprise Engineer is designed to accelerate the business processes associated with engineering content, such as drawings, correspondence, procedures, specifications and other related documents.

Developing market share through aggressive collaboration, Vignette and General Electric company, Access Distribution, have announced a distribution relationship whereby Access Distribution will make Vignette Portal, Content Management, and Collaboration solutions available through its reseller network.

Access will offer service, education and maintenance programs to its newly recruited authorized resellers throughout North America.

Tuesday, Jan 25 2005

As announced on his blog yesterday, Ben Goodger, the lead FireFox engineer has changed his "source of income" from The Mozilla Foundation to Google, Inc. of Mountain View, California.

He states that his role with FireFox and the Mozilla project will remain largely unchanged, continuing with the goals of successful 1.1, 1.5 and 2.0 releases of the FireFox browser. However, its his new role with search engine giant, Google, that has people talking.

CM Professionals, a group of content management professionals from around the world, elected its first formal Board of Directors. The new Board roster includes: Ann Rockley, President; Erik Hartman, Vice President; Seth Gottlieb, Treasurer; Samantha Starmer, Secretary; Frank Gilbane.

Canadian Belus Technology today announced Version 1.5 of XStandard, a standards-compliant WYSIWYG editor for Windows and browser-based content management systems (IE/Mozilla/Firefox/ActiveX).

The new version of XStandard brings significant performance enhancements, including a loading time for the editor that is five times faster than previous versions, and under half a second on the average computer.

In an impressive display of coordinated execution, blog software maker Six Apart yesterday coordinated an emergency point release of the popular Movable Type blogging tool.

Version 3.15 fixes a vulnerability in the mail sending packages for Movable Type versions 1.0 to 3.14. The weakness allowed malicious users to send email through the application to any number of arbitrary users. Hello spammers!

Monday, Jan 24 2005

PaperThin has announced the availability of CommonSpot Content Server version 4.5, the company’s flagship Web content management solution.

This release introduces expanded authoring support for the Mac platform and for Mozilla-based browsers such as FireFox. New collaboration features include email review. A Web Services-based content import facility adds ease of integration and content migration. A taxonomy module will please the IA's in the group. And several new features are targeted at larger-scale organizations.

Friday, Jan 21 2005

Vignette has announced financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2004.

Year-over-year revenue growth was 25%, total revenues for the year were $177.9 million, operating loss for the year totaled $54.3 million (GAAP) or $13.1 million (non-GAAP).

Total revenue for the fourth quarter was $48.8 million, up 15% from the prior quarter, with license revenue representing $19.3 million of total revenue.

Stellent, a global provider of Content Management Solutions, has announced its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2005 ended Dec. 31, 2004.

Year-over-year revenue growth was 44%, total revenues for the nine-month period were $78.3 million, net income for the period was $0.2 million (GAAP).

Third quarter fiscal 2005 revenues were $27.7 million, an increase of 44% from the $19.2 million reported for the same period last year.

Thursday, Jan 20 2005

Autralian publishing solutions firm with a fondness for the accent aigu has today announced the latest release of their XML Content Management System (CMS) and Publishing platform.

Typéfi Publishing System (TPS) v2 targets in ease-of-use for automated publishing solutions with an emphasis on workflow management and content management capabilities.

The TPS product consists of three components, Content Management, Workflow Management, and Automated Publishing. The publishing component can produce up to 15,000 print ready documents per hour.

Wednesday, Jan 19 2005

Sun Microsystems has joined the thundering masses of vendors storming the Compliance and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) gates.

Today Sun announced the Sun Compliance and Content Management (CMS) Solution, a customer-ready system that integrates Sun's storage and compliance products, the expertise of its client solutions organization, and the Solaris Operating System with compliance software from AXS-One to deliver a compliance solution for electronic records.

The collaboration between Sun and AXS-One is focused on global regulatory compliance and business governance requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, SEC 17a-4, Gramm-Leach-Bliley and their equivalents.