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Wednesday, Mar 23 2005

The MCMS.RAPID enhancements bundle for Microsoft Content Management Server (CMS) has hit the 500th download milestone today.

MCMS.RAPID is a free enhancement for MCMS providing a set of commonly requested features for web site development and for the authoring tools.

[MCMS.RAPID Momentum continues..]

Friday, Mar 18 2005

Day Software, a provider of content management and infrastructure software, announces that Obinary will embed Day’s Content Repository Extreme (CRX) across its entire product sets.

CRX - Day’s Java Content Repository - is the industry’s first full implementation of JSR 170, the Java standard Day and other vendors have been pushing for enterprise content repositories.

Search optimization focuses on how people search. Search engine optimization focuses on how search engines work. Search optimization sees quality web content as its foundation stone.

Wednesday, Mar 16 2005

A recent survey conducted by Microsoft corp finds that workers average only three productive days per week and lays the blame on among other things, unproductive staff meetings.

69% of the 38,000 people surveyed considered meetings to be an unproductive use of time. A shocking finding indeed!

Yahoo, a late comer to blogging, announces Yahoo 360. The free service gives existing and new Yahoo! users a place on the web to share everything with everybody, or somebody. Its a digital orgy with blogs, moblogs, photos, lists (e.g., favorite books), blasts, LaunchCast, and reviews.

Plone is a popular Open Source Web CMS based on the Zope application framework. A recent review of Plone by Roger Johansson is definitely worth a close read if you are considering Plone as a Web CMS.

IXIASOFT, an embeddable XML database and search engine vendor, announces an OEM partnership with Business Document, a provider of Business Process Management (BPM) software solutions.

Business Document will integrate TEXTML Server to Bdoc-Suite, a document management and automation solution aimed primarily at the financial, insurance, telecommunications and services markets.

Tuesday, Mar 15 2005

Hot on the heels of winning industry recognition as the LinuxWorld Best Open Source Solution and Best of Show, Mambo has won yet another award, this time from leading Linux publication, Linux Format.

The award, in the most prestigious category of "Best Free Software Project of the Year" was announced this week.

IBM announces a new Enterprise Content Management (ECM) portfolio touting over 160 vertical content applications, features for regulatory compliance, and broad enterprise information repository integration.

Featured heavily in this release are integration features built around IBM's new XML document technologies, derived from the ongoing Project Cinnamon research.

Metadot, the developer of one of a popular open source (free) portal server, announces the availability of the Metadot Portal Server Business Edition.

The Business Edition provides annual installation, support, maintenance and optionally hosting services for Medadot customers.

Monday, Mar 14 2005

Perpetual Motion Interactive Systems, a Microsoft technology solutions provider, has announced the availability of DotNetNuke 3.0, an open source content management system for the Microsoft ASP.NET platform.

This major release offers forward compatibility with the much anticipated Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 (Whidbey) platform, and adds new Localization and Search capabilities.

So what is it with the Danish and Web Content Management? Hello! They're mad for it over there.

Anyhow, Umbraco doesn't really mean ".NET Open Source CMS", but that's what it is and it seems to be doing it well. Niels Hartvig kicked this project off in 2001 and now in its in version 2.0.