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Friday, Jul 29 2005

Ektron’s CMS400.NET was their first native .NET Web Content Management System (CMS). With much of the purchasing world fragmented into .NET or J2EE and the SMB market slanted towards .NET, this was a wise move, and one that has reaped strong returns for the company.

Recently announced, Ektron’s CMS400 now supports ColdFusion, JSP, PHP and ASP as well as ASP.NET for integration, customization, and the presentation layer of websites built upon the product.

Wednesday, Jul 27 2005

Relatively speaking, there seems to be quite a buzz around Microsoft CMS this month. Maybe I’ve just side-stepped into the jet stream, with a blog-tuned attention span, it can occasionally get hard to tell.

At any rate, here’s another MCMS resource for those running or planning production instances: the Microsoft Content Management Server Field Guide. Its a 232 page paperback and is billed as simple crisis-management instructions for intermediate to advanced-level network administrators who work in the trenches.

Tuesday, Jul 26 2005

This Visual Studio 2003 Add-In allows the user to test XPath expressions against a given XML file or against node in the file. It offers some very useful functionality for XSLT writers.

[via Mark Harrison]

Tuesday, Jul 26 2005

Not surprisingly, Microsoft is working on merging the core architectures of the SharePoint Portal and Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) products. The first version of the new architecture is due out with the Office 12 release late next year.

In one of the first public statements on the topic, Chris Capossela, Microsoft’s group vice president of Information Worker Product Group, indicated that the future of the two products was around more common technologies and an integration, if not outright convergence.

The purpose of the SharePoint Utility Suite is to provide a packaged collection of Tools and Utilities showcasing the Object Model that is delivered with the SharePoint Product and Technologies SDK (which includes Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003). This package includes code and tool examples that SharePoint Developers and SharePoint Administrators might find useful.

Too many websites are nearly always a bad idea. Getting your customer to remember one web address is more than enough of a challenge.

Friday, Jul 22 2005

Announced today, the v1.1 release of CMS.RAPID hits the Internets, touting some impressive new features and a much improved SharePoint Portal integration story.

CMS.RAPID enhances the core functionality of the Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) and provides a framework that enables web application and content management extensibility.

Wednesday, Jul 20 2005

Sun Microsystems is beefing-up its partnership with Interwoven, agreeing to resell Interwoven’s Java-based Enterprise Content Management(ECM) products.

Sun will target deals that include their Java Enterprise System software, Sun Fire enterprise servers, and StorEdge data storage offerings.

HardCore Internet has released v5.6 of the HardCore Web Content Management (Web CMS) system. The main focus of the new version was the addition of website metrics capabilities.

In an announcement today, IBM has been named the lead Enterprise Content Management (ECM) vendor, in terms of worldwide license revenue.

The statement applies to calendar 2004 and is based on a report by research firm Gartner, Inc. The report states that IBM is out in front of all ECM vendors. The ECM capabilities considered included integrated document management, web content management, records management, document capture, document-based collaboration and workflow.

Belus Technology has announced version 1.6 of XStandard, a leading standards-compliant WYSIWYG editor for Windows desktop and browser-based content management systems. XStandard supports a broad range of browsers, including IE, Mozilla, Firefox and Netscape.

Day Software, a provider of content management and content infrastructure technologies, adds new weight to their UK operations with the appointment of Allison J Woodward as Managing Director.

Previously Allison headed up the ECM Business Unit for FileNet where she worked as Director of Sales.