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The number of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS cloud services is growing. After software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) represents one of the largest growth areas in the cloud. Now, there is a new entrant in the PHP PaaS market -- something we are likely to hear frequently of over the next few years.

Adobe (news, site) has a major presence in enterprise development, much of which can now be focused on iOS, Android and BlackBerry thanks to updates for Flash Builder and Flex, which both hit version 4.5.

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.

CMS Made Simple (news, site) Web CMS keeps rolling out the updates to its growing audience that recently hit the seven-figure mark.

Open source Web CMS, ImpressPages (news, site), has created a tool to preserve the formatting of your words but get rid of the underlying code that can screw up your pages when cutting and pasting.

On July 12, EllisLab finally released EE2.1, the first non-beta version of ExpressionEngine 2. This is part two of an indepth review of the latest version, including a look at the engine, add-ons and what's gone.

Perhaps the "2" stood for 2 years.

On July 12, EllisLab finally released EE2.1, the first non-beta version of ExpressionEngine 2, a massive change from the EE 1.x line that changes all the underlying code of the software itself, adds an impressive array of new features both large and small, and (EE developers hope) brings to an end a long plateau in the evolution of ExpressionEngine.

Historically, Microsoft (news, site) has shown active hostility to open source, referring to it as a cancer among other things. These days, however, the company has been dipping its toes in open source CMS waters to rather mixed reactions.

Last year, Microsoft released a PHP Toolkit for ADO.Net Data Services enabling PHP applications to to connect and leverage the various services offered in ADO.Net Data Services. Now they offer the ability to add some business intelligence capabilities to those same applications, thanks to SQL Server 2008.

The upgrade to Bitrix’s Virtual Appliance for Amazon EC2 from 1.4 to 1.5 adds a number of improvements that the company says will enhance the user performance of its content management and enterprise content management software.

With a whole pile of pre-configured settings to nip any software compatibility issues in the bud, Bitrix (news, site) says the new release will speed up all the processes and increase the performance of all the components through its built-in mechanisms.

This version allows users to install Bitrix Site Manager and Bitrix Intranet Portal, or any other applications that use the PHP platform, quicker and more efficiently than previous versions. It also includes the most recent version of the Bitrix web environment with optimized memory usage.

It is protected by both Amazon EC2 security settings and by an integrated firewall which is set up automatically. It also now supports all three data center location regions -- US Standard, US N. California, EU -- Ireland -- after recent EC2 development.

However, that is not all you get. It also comes with the beta release of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Device) customized for Bitrix users giving them 1TB of back-up power for web projects and intranet portals.

Bitrix’s Virtual Appliance is free to download once you have logged in to Amazon Web Services.

Martin Aspeli of the Plone (news, site) project recently sat down and evaluated a "whole slew" of web content management systems. From there, he's digested his observations and shared them in the form of a fairly extensive writeup. While it's obviously Plone-centric, there's a lot that applies to anyone who's trying to choose what Web CMS they want to work with.

A free and open-source Web CMS from ImpressPages in Lithuania makes an instant impression with its drag-and-drop approach.

For most of us, a good day is being able to go about our business without any annoyances getting in our way. Unfortunately, when your business involves the Internet, mere annoyances rate much higher on the "good" scale than, say, discovering your Web CMS was hacked at least six months ago and you've been leaking critical user data like a sieve.

If that user data involves sensitive information such as medical data, credit card numbers, bank account information or anything else that is subject to either regulations or sleepless nights over losing your shirt, you should at least investigate security add-ons.

Billed as a content platform for Web developers, here comes BitsyBox offering data stores, easy editing and a content delivery network in one hosted Web CMS.

Hooked on Microsoft or just tied into ASP.NET? Bitrix (news, site) comes to your aid with its new Site Manager CMS in just your flavor.