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SharePoint suffers, as mid-market Enterprise CMS (ECM) vendors excel, a report from CMS Watch reveals. After an evaluation of 30 leaders in the ECM industry, everyone seems to be happy except the Microsoft people -- which seems to be becoming a trend. Ironically enough, it is Microsoft SharePoint that is propelling the industry forward.

Adobe Systems, a publishing and design software company, has reported that its quarterly profit fell 7%, but this is still better than what Wall Street has expected.

Higher operating costs and lower interest income contributed to Q3's lower net profit. But the company is optimistic, as it plans to unveil new Adobe Creative Suite 4.0 in several days.

Ajax is a popular approach to developing applications and mashups. But with different implementation approaches, it makes it hard to create an application or widget that works consistently across browsers and in mashups. Until now...

The OpenAjax Alliance has announced a new draft specification that will facilitate interoperability across IDEs and make widgets more interoperable in mashups.

Day Software is looking to increase its ECM market share in NEMEA - Northern Europe, Middle East and Asia. That's an interesting combination of markets to manage, one that sounds like other ECM providers use, but we hadn't heard of before. Guess Europe is a little too big for one person to handle.

Day Software, a provider of global content management and content infrastructure software, recently announced the company's financial results for the first half of 2008. Overall, things are going well for the company, but there is still room for improvement.

Alterian, a leader in providing marketing services and system integrations, is possibly making progress with its recent acquisition of Mediasurface. Recently, the company made strides with the integration of Dynamic Messenger with Immediacy and Morello.

PBwiki, the world’s largest provider of business and educational hosted wikis, announced that two new programs have been created that will donate up to US$ 25 million of award-winning wiki-based collaboration software.

Try as some might to stop it, it looks like Microsoft may soon be celebrating the official recognition of its OOXML document standard as an international standard by the ISO.

After months of waiting it has finally arrived on our doorstep. Microsoft was whispering sweet nothings about the next release of SQL Server since late September last year. It has now arrived -- and if you are wondering what's so special about the newest version, well, we've got the skinny for you.

What's the saying, 'another man's trash is another man's treasure'? Well, it might not exactly summarize the situation facing print newspapers and their web counterparts, but you get the point.

What has been a dismal year for print newspapers, has also been a year of promise for newspaper websites. A report released by Nielsen Online for the Newspaper Association of America shows that newspaper web sites attracted nearly 66.4 million unique visitors on average -- 40.2 percent of all Internet users -- in the second quarter of 2008, a 12.2 percent increase over the same period, a year ago.

Recession, what recession? Fatwire Software has announced record-breaking financial results for the first half of 2008, mostly on the back of increased sales for its licensed products.

As we reported last month, Fatwire scored a tremendous coup in securing the Military.com contract, and other strong sales growth saw licensing revenue jump 75% from the first half of 2007, with total revenue up 66%.

About a year ago, CMSWire reported on the number of women resigning from information technology jobs in the UK. A new report now indicates that women in IT in the US are declining as well.

In 2006, women made up only 26.7 percent of computer and mathematical positions according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The downward trend has been found across all IT jobs categories with only 16 percent of all network and computer systems administrator positions being held by women in 2006, dropping from 23.4 percent in 2000.

Boston-based Records Management specialist Iron Mountain has named Bob Brennan as its new CEO. Brennan was unveiled in his new position on June 5th, and succeeds long-standing Chief Richard Reece.

Microsoft may still be riding high from obtaining ISO certification for its OOXML specification in April, because they are now openly offering to support ODF in their Office 2007 productivity software. It's a ploy, some open source camps are whispering. It's about time, says others.

Web users and bloggers went tête à tête in recent survey of Internet users conducted by the legal firm, DLA Piper. The survey focused on the possibility of instituting a voluntary code of conduct for bloggers and online commentators.

There was a noticeable divide: nearly half of all internet users would support such a code whereas only 34% of bloggers did.