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Wednesday, Aug 23 2006

The M&A frenzy continued earlier this week as J.L. Halsey Corporation grabbed Web CMS vendor, Hot Banana, and web analytics vendor, ClickTracks. Importantly, I have to wonder how quickly they’ll re-brand Hot Banana.

Friday, Aug 11 2006

In an interesting set of articles, Information Week reports that "IT employment in the United States is growing even as more businesses outsource tech work overseas" and Line 56 reports that India's labor shortage is driving them to hire Americans and other foreigners.

Thursday, Aug 10 2006

IBM announced today that it will buy California-based Enterprise Content Management (ECM) vendor FileNet in an all-cash deal valued at $1.6 billion. The is IBM's largest acquisition in about four years.

Wednesday, Aug 9 2006

The field of Lucene ports just sprouted another flower. The latest, a CPAN Perl module who's name is, yes, "Lucene". This is not a port strictly speaking, but a Perl wrapper around the C++ port of Lucene and as such should be smoking fast as compared to relatives like Plucene.

Enterprise CMS vendor Open Text pushes towards the corporate blogging and collaboration market with updates to the education-centric FirstClass communications suite of products.

Tuesday, Aug 8 2006

Using this set of simple instructions, you can add a live Google Map to any web page in 30 seconds or less.

San Francisco-based Quantum Art updates their QP7 Web CMS platform and makes better friends with Visual Studio, adding a RAD module for content application development.

Monday, Aug 7 2006

Who’s who? More than anything else, staff want to get in touch with other staff. Most organizations are poor at facilitating such interactions.

ECM vendor Open Text reports an agreement to acquire 100% of Hummingbird Ltd. in an all cash deal. Hummingbird acquired Web CMS vendor RedDot just over a year ago.

Friday, Aug 4 2006

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the eighth public working draft of "XHTML 2.0."

According to a recent IDC report Enterprise CMS vendor EMC (acquirer of Documentum) now holds the largest share of the Content Management market.

In a Gerry McGovern-esque move Xerox has recommended that companies create a new personnel role to streamline content management. The "Director of Documents" would focus on the control of business documents, ensure compliance with regulations and look for cost savings in the content life cycle.