Day Speaks on 2009 Plans, Open Source, CQ5 and More

It's a Swiss treats day for a Swiss vendor. Enterprise CMS provider Day Software has received the Swiss Open Source Award 2008 in the business category.

Recipe for success? Mix two tablespoons of Day with several pounds of a new chief marketing officer, who has arrived from Interwoven via the open source devout Alfresco. And, voila! The open source awards will follow.

Day's recently-onboarded CMO Kevin Cochrane tells us all the glorious details about this award and (much) more — including, why he left Interwoven and Alfresco.

Day Awarded for Open Source Embrace

Day has long been associated with all things open source — standards and interoperability — so the award from the Swiss Open Systems User Group doesn’t come as a surprise. Criteria for the award's business category included “exceptional competence and generous support of open source software projects.”

The judges selected Day due to its work with Apache Jackrabbit, Apache Sling and promotion of standards-based content repositories and efforts on JSR 170.

Day: Open Source and Standards Devotion

At Day Software, most software engineers are open source developers — 75% of the developers have active involvement in at least one open source project.

Currently, Day is contributing to about 25 open source projects, including various types of involvement with the Apache Software Foundation. Some of the open source initiatives start incubating in the labs at the company’s HQ. Then, they’re released into the wild, where the open source community and everyone in it can get involved, contribute and help finalize various open source projects.

To name just some of big achievements on Day’s open source front, let’s look at Apache Sling — a RESTful Web app framework that Day open-sourced in 2007. Sling was developed to support rapid, scalable content application development on top of Day's JCR content repository.

Day is also closely associated with Apache Jackrabbit — a fully-compliant implementation of the Content Repository for JCR. Then, there’s Apache Felix with its standards-compliant bundle at the core of WCM to deploy specialized applications.

Why Day Likes Open Source

Why Day is interested in embracing open source? Cochrane gave us three reasons:

1. A cultural bend is taking place in the CMS industry, where organizations are more and more in-tune with open source communities, and Day wants to give back to this community versus simply monetizing on it.
2. Involvement with open source keeps Day at the technological forefront, with a large group of Subject Matter Experts assisting with various projects.
3. By building and supporting a community of developers around RESTful Web application development, Day builds a potential customer base. So, there is, of course, a bit of a commercial interest involved.

Day’s Update on CMIS

Day is still on a path of actively contributing to the draft CMIS specification, as we previously reported soon after the draft was released and we spoke to Day’s CTO and fearless CMIS leader David Nüscheler.

Day Speaks on 2009 Plans, Open Source, CQ5 and More

\n\nIt's a Swiss treats day for a Swiss vendor. Enterprise CMS provider Day Software has received the Swiss Open Source Award 2008 in the business category. \n\nRecipe for success? Mix two tablespoons of Day with several pounds of a new chief marketing officer, who has arrived from Interwoven via the open source devout Alfresco. And, voila! The open source awards will follow. \n\nDay's recently-onboarded CMO Kevin Cochrane tells us all the glorious details about this award and (much) more -- including, why he left Interwoven and Alfresco.

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