Content Management Matters ™

Piggybacking on news from a few weeks ago, Alfresco has officially launched Alfresco Enterprise 2.2. Featured enhancements seek to support the creation, deployment and update of scalable Web 2.0 sites and are targeted toward the company's "most advanced, interactive sites in the entertainment, online gaming, sports, telecommunications and publishing industries."

Curious to know what's changed and see the new look? Read on.

The Swedish company Episerver, one of the world’s fastest growing providers of Web Content Management (WCM) platforms, has made the strategic investment of acquiring Netstar, enabling Episerver to offer its clients a Web Content Management solution with an integrated community component.

Telerik, a vendor of developer tools and components for .NET, has beefed up its Sitefinity CMS with version 3.2, adding a number of nifty new features to their website, intranet and community portal development platform.

AlwaysOn has announced their OnMedia 100, a list of top private companies that highlight "game-changing players in the marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations industries."

Okay, so Microsoft has finally gone and done it. They have actually implemented their own technology that demonstrate it's capabilities, uh, sort of.

SharePointPedia is a social computing platform built on SharePoint Office Server 2007 (MOSS) developed to serve the greater SharePoint community, pontificating on and proliferating all things SharePoint. There's only one problem: it's not quite there yet.

One of the benefits of a globalized world is an increased ability to draw from the expertise of strangers from far-flung corners of the universe. This also results in a more fertile environment for open source development.

As a result, everybody's got a community these days. Last week document management firm Laserfiche launched the Professional Developer Partnership (PDP) program last week.