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Telligent, provider of software for social business and communities, has closed its acquisition of Leverage Software. Why buy another social player? Here's what they got in the deal.

We have already noted in enterprise content management that many vendors appear to be heading towards specialization in particular verticals. Whether this can be said of Enterprise 2.0 is not clear, but the recent release by Enterprise Hive of HiveSocial v3.0 and HiveSocial Now might suggest that this is the case.

If SAP (news, site) has given the impression in recent years that it is slow in getting to market or responding to change, the announcements that it will be moving some of its products to the Amazon EC2 cloud and that it is facilitating deeper integration between SAP and Microsoft cloud computing technologies should go some way to improving that image.

Telerik (news, site), the well-known provider of development tools and the Sitefinity content management platform, has announced the release of two new products: JustDecompile, an assembly browsing and decompiling tool, and JustTrace, an application profiler.

While upgrades to Bitrix’s (news, site) PHP-based Web CMS Site Manager are common enough, there have been fewer upgrades to its ASP.NET version, which was introduced in late 2009. This week though, Bitrix has released a new version as v5.5, which comes with new quick-start solutions as well as performance improvements and improvements to its ORM modules.

It's all about time to market these days. Organizations are looking for ways to get their websites up and running fast, and DotNetNuke (news, site) has come up with a few ways for them to do just that.

Scala is not among the most popular programming languages but soon this could change. With a EUR 2.3 million grant from the European Research Council (ERC), the Scala team will double their efforts to produce a parallel programming language for wider use.

Who says the web content management market is saturated? There's still plenty of opportunities for up and coming vendors, especially those aimed at the mid-sized market like Aptinet is.

Sitecore (news, site) has ended their fiscal year on two high notes: record revenue growth and a spot on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management.

 Australian vendor Intranet Dashboard (news, site) has made much about being a real and viable alternative to SharePoint, but this week’s release of ID 4 adds new functionality that covers all the bases by offering a free SharePoint connector enabling users access their SharePoint content from ID.

 Everyone is looking for a way to build Web 2.0 applications quickly, without having to deal with the details of code. Iron Speed offers such as solution in their Iron Speed Designer that can build apps for SharePoint 2010, 

Ektron (news, site) closed 2009 with sales growth of over 38%. Q1 2009 showed 26% growth in year-over-year revenues. It doesn't come as a surprise this Web CMS vendor is reporting about the same financials for 1H 2010.

A community technology preview (CTP) of the upcoming SDL Tridion 2011 (news, site) is in progress right now and leaks of what it has improved upon and added are starting to surface.

Recently, the Real Story Group identified mid-market Microsoft .NET-based content management systems as the biggest Web CMS trend for Q3.

I was inspired to explore this topic a bit more, as industry anecdotes of organizations selecting one CMS vendor over the other based on the "We're a 100% .NET" claim sprang to mind.

While it’s rarely recommended that one build themselves their own content management system from scratch, there are times when it can be a good learning experience. It’s even better when what you build is actually worth building. Such is the case with Pro ASP.NET 4 CMS, a new platform developed by Alan Harris.