Content Management Matters ™

Fact: Open source business models can be profitable and consistent. eZ Systems' open source Web CMS -- eZ Publish -- has raked up an impressive triple-digit growth and double-digit renewal rates for the first half of 2008.

This is the first time eZ Systems achieved a profitable bottom line. It took 8 years and more than $US 10 million of investments.

The eZ Publish system has received many updates from its developers. The latest release -- eZ Publish 4.0.1 -- has had over 300 bug fixes. While the fixes are plentiful, a significant fundamental issue with the URL aliasing system has been addressed as well.

Our friends at eZ Publish are coming at you with their latest offering, eZ Publish Advanced Content Management. It's a book that caters to the needs of content managers and webmasters, offering a comprehensive and advanced guide to managing content with open source eZ Publish Enterprise CMS.

The second day of the 5th annual eZ Conference opened with a keynote address by Jo Christian Oterhals, Head of Development at VG Multimedia, Norway's largest newspaper and media group.

He spoke on his group's experience with developing VG Nett, which consists of the online version of the VG newspaper and a suite of complementary web properties such as communities, blogs, photo sharing and so on.

The 5th annual eZ Conference, the biggest content management conference in Europe, begins with the International Partner Day, which this year brought 130 eZ Partners from as far away as Mozambique and Japan to Skien, Norway.

This eZ Conference report begins with a summary of events from International Partner Day.

This June 6-8, the Ibsenhuset Conference Center of Skien, Norway will play host to the 5th annual eZ Conference. For some, this is the biggest content management event in Europe.