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Thursday, Nov 30 2006

When you’ve got highly consumer-tailored software disseminated all over the world, it’s tough to keep different versions in line with the most up-to-date and bug-free iteration. But Mambo’s trying. Hard. Their recent release of Persian Mambo v4.6.1 rids Persian-speaking users of a slew of minor issues that prevented Mambo from fully realizing its market potential on the Iranian frontier.

Drupal, one of the most popular open source Web CMS’s around, has announced the immediate availability of the latest Drupal 5 beta.

Wednesday, Nov 29 2006

Right in tune with the localization theme at this week’s Gilbane Content Management Conference in Boston, Web CMS and Analytics vendor Hot Banana have unwrapped some sleek additions supporting multilingual content delivery and the localization process management. Automation is the keyword, though as we all know, only part of this featured picture.

Wednesday, Nov 29 2006

CMS vendors continue to update their applications to be compatible with IE7 and Vista. The supposed 85 percent marketshare of IE is definitely causing a real and broad scramble in the field. The latest in the wave of releases is Ektron’s eWebEditPro+XML rich text editor. Along with IE7 support comes a host of new features sure to please the the content managers.

Hoping to level the playing field with Microsoft SharePoint and perhaps make a little open source cheddar, Dutch software outfit O3 is releasing its O3Spaces back office suite for OpenOffice and StarOffice. While it is far from offering all of the features of SharePoint (MOSS) 2007, it is definitely something that that open source and hybrid Microsoft/open source shops should consider for document management.

Tuesday, Nov 28 2006

Some people call it Enterprise 2.0, eTouch call it the next generation of collaboration and today have announced the latest release of their SamePage collaboration platform. The revamped version 3.0 touts Enterprise Wikis and Blogs, functional templates for project management, and enhanced scalability.

Squiz of Sydney and the UK is on the Open Source CMS boat. They are demonstrating their new enterprise-class release at the Online Information conference this week in the UK, where they join VYRE and Jadu in premiering their own new e-class offerings.

Tuesday, Nov 28 2006

Sitecore, a provider of .NET web content management and portal software, has announced the availability of Sitecore CMS Version 5.3. The new version supports the final version of IE 7 and Vista along with Firefox 2.0.

Open source specialist SpikeSource, recently invigorated by their collaboration on Intel’s SuiteTwo Enterprise 2.0 project, has aligned with CorraTech to provide a suite of open source applications. The software offering, aptly dubbed OpenSuite, is delivered either on-premise or as an on-demand service.

Monday, Nov 27 2006

What does ‘Web 2.0’ mean to the world of Public Relations?

Google has taken a few more steps forwards with its burgeoning enterprise offering with two notable additions to its “Apps” suite. In typical Google fashion, the latest enhancements to Google Apps for Your Domain arrived with little fanfare — users simply noticed that they had an “Enterprise Start Page” in their options window and some new Google Page Creator tools at their finger tips.

According to a recent survey, only about 60% of companies using an e-mail surveillance tool are actually better able to assess deviant employee behavior or potential network risks resulting from bad emails. Email governance software vendor MessageGate aims to better these numbers by profiling employee communications and pin-pointing communications and compliance risks.