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As Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) continues to gain momentum in the content management space, a growing crowd of vendors is flocking to wire their products to MOSS or paper over its rough edges with MOSS-trimming programs.

Gartner, everyone’s favourite research firm, has read the ECM tea leaves and expects its global market to grow at a rate of 12 percent per year. If that growth rate holds true, by 2010 the worldwide market for content management will be valued at a whopping US$ 4.2 billion.

As more companies jostle to take advantage of the white-hot Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution space (also known as “on-demand software”), SpringCM hopes to strengthen their leadership position by releasing an updated version of their SaaS Enterprise CMS.

While PHP and Java have been increasingly labeled the tech platforms of choice for Web CMS solutions, .NET remains a favorite for many ISV’s. And even if the pairing of .NET and content management typically inspires thoughts to wander towards MOSS, a plethora of other options certainly exists for those looking.

One such candidate is Telerik’s Sitefinity Web CMS.

Web task management is about managing your website around common tasks. Success is measured on the completion of these tasks.

Let’s say you’re a growing Microsoft Windows shop and your web presence has expanded to a point where maintenance has become a nightmare. You know you need a web content management system but your budget does not cover the cost of an enterprise CMS and you are just not comfortable with bringing an open source solution into your Windows shop.

What do you do?

There have been many conferences to date that focused on website design, search engine optimization strategies, ecommerce, email marketing, and other pieces of the Internet puzzle. None, however, have catered to this assortment under the umbrella of Web content.

TheContentWrangler.com and DUO Consulting will be hosting one of the biggest conferences for people involved in Web content. Web Content 2007 and it will be held in Chicago from June 18-19.

WordPressers, “Getz” over to wordpress.com and prepare to update your favorite blogging engine.

The latest is a big release. On top of many improvements — most notably the inclusion of widgets — version 2.2 counts over 240 bug fixes.

Open Text answers questions about just what would be done with RedDot, which was acquired as part of the Hummingbird acquisition, by using RedDot CMS to enable a personalized web experience for the Yorkshire Tourist Board.

Hoping to ease mounting market pressures on manufacturers, Astoria Software has gone into the advice industry with “Dynamic Product Documentation On-Demand,” their latest brief on how on-demand (SaaS) DITA documentation management solutions can lower costs and reduce time to market.

Joining thirteen other open source stalwarts including MySQL, JBoss, Zimbra and Sugar CRM, Alfresco is now one of the founding members of a new online marketplace for business applications called the Red Hat Exchange (RHX).

It’s one thing to like a blog, but is it possible to be attracted to a blogging platform?

Friction-free Squarespace, a subscription based solution for managing websites and blogs all at once, just released v4.0 of its blogging software into a progressively more crowded arena. And, well, it’s kind of gorgeous.

SF-based Weebly, a fruit from the YCombinator tree, just joined the hosted blogging world, pitting itself against TypePad, WordPress and Movable Type.

Over 7,000 EMC experts, technologists and buyers will be gathering in Orlando for EMC World 2007, a veritable gaggle of EMC experts and enthusiasts.

EMC is a leading figure in the enterprise content management webiverse.

Two new add-ons for Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007 strive to not only make it easier and faster for users to locate their content but also enable them to store content in SharePoint directly from Outlook.