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Tuesday, Jul 31 2007

Astoria Software, providers of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) content management solution, and XML-based content authoring tool provider In.Vision have teamed-up to address the perennial question plaguing CMS project leaders the world over:

“What do you mean I can’t use Microsoft Word?”

Has it been a year already? Apparently it has, as Packt Publishing releases a first look at the list of nominees for the 2007 Best Open Source CMS Awards.

With help from the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, the infrastructure team and association for open source web CMS project Drupal got some significant changes made to Drupal.org - which, in recent months, has become a bit laggy as its popularity builds.

Tuesday, Jul 31 2007

Anytime a software company announces a complete revision of its flagship product, its a momentous occasion for existing customers. When that company is EMC and the product in question is Documentum, then the entire industry stands up to take notice.

Before everyone gets swept up in the pomp and circumstance, however, let’s keep a few things in mind.

After evaluating 11 web content management vendors and providers across 190 content management and delivery criteria specific to external sites, Forrester ranked Tridion, Fatwire and Interwoven as leaders in the recently released Web Content Management for External Sites report.

Monday, Jul 30 2007

When I think of Facebook, I think of the telephone. Stay with me. Not only do they both provide means for networking and communication, their development was also subject to conspiracy. You see, back in the day, many laid claim to status of its inventor. Much like the Harvard graduates, Divy Narendra and Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who claim that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea. Now they know how Antonio Meucci felt.

After building 30 custom learning management systems, Tata Interactive Systems realized there just might be a market for a product in the e-learning space. On the heels of that realization comes the announcement of Learning Planet, an offering that is being called an enterprise learning content management system or LCMS.

Monday, Jul 30 2007

After months of grueling work and legal battles, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has officially approved the Common Public Attribution License (CPAL) originally submitted by Socialtext nine months ago. With CPAL on the OSI’s approved list of open source licenses, Socialtext can now carry the OSI-certified label and proudly call itself open source.

If you’re thinking of redesigning your website, ask yourself this question: Am I simply papering over the cracks?

Friday, Jul 27 2007

All the twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.

This week’s highlights include:

• The Best Websites are Useful and Ugly. A (necessary?) buzz-kill for the enterprise aesthetes out there.
• Plone 3.0 Candidate is Ready for Testing. Ready to Plone and Plone some more? Now you can, and with versioning too.
• State of the Open Source Union, Thanks Alfresco!. Alfresco’s extensive biannual survey of user preferences. Take a look; it may surprise you.
• Publishers to Merge Print and Online Metrics. Isn’t it about time?
• Homebrew is for Beer, Not Content Management. Need six reasons not to try brewing your own CMS in the tech cave? We’ll give you three right now: versioning, dependency management and usability.

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of (if unique visits are anything to go by, anyway). Reinvention, whether by mergers, innovations or repositioning, was big this week.

• M & A: Hyland Software is Off the Market
• Google Apps Go Mobile, Starting with iPhone
• Iron Mountain Reinvents Itself with Eye on Records Management
• What is an Ontology? And Why We Need Them
• VMware to Rock VMworld with Release of Server 2.0

Thanks for the support y’all. The likes of Adido Solutions, Alpha Card, Asbru, Atlantic Global, Bitrix Soft, BrowserMedia, CMS Watch, Digital Original, Ektron, EMC/Documentum, eTouch SamePage, Hot Banana, NetReach cmScribe, Quantum Art, Toshiba, Wild Apricot and of course dear old uncle Google have kept the Nespresso machines running this week. And we are thankful.

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SpikeSource has announced the latest version of its SpikeIgnited version of the Drupal web CMS solution. With Drupal 5.1 as its muse, this is the first SpikeSource solution that’s been tested and certified for both Microsoft Windows and Linux.