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At the eZ Conference developer day this week, eZ Systems announced plans for the newest upcoming version of their web content management system eZ Publish 4.1. This latest version will have some new back-end support and enhanced user experience features.

In addition, a new version of eZ Components was announced this morning which includes three new components.

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.

It's like Christmas all over again for Apple fans as Norwegian Open Source CMS champion eZ Systems has at long last enabled support for their flagship eZ Publish CMS to run on the Mac OS X Server v10.5 Leopard. Perhaps this pleasant change can be attributed to the recent additions to their board of directors. Or maybe these guys are just on a roll with their recent launch of eZ Publish 4.0 and their newly updated eZ Components Suite.

eZ Systems has updated the eZ Components suite, releasing two brand new tools for its bubbling developer's cauldron: Tree and Wedav.

Just out the door, eZ Systems announces the latest version of their flagship web content management product -- eZ Publish v4.0. Can you hear the cheers from the Open Source community now? Or how about from the online publishers, who eZ Systems' execs assert they are "200% focused on."

Packt Publishing, whose Open Source CMS awards we covered in considerable depth recently (here, here and here), is a book publishing company who specialize in producing books by and for IT professionals.

Their latest title deals with the eZ Publish Web CMS product, and provides a comprehensive guide to deployment and management of eZ Publish based projects, as well as general information and tips on Web CMS project-management.

Norwegian Web Content Management providers eZ Systems have beefed up their Board of Directors by hiring three new members, each bringing a wealth of experience to the table.

London-based Alfresco Software is reaching out to the Spanish speaking CMS aficionados of the world. They've just launched a new website and collaboration forum for the Spanish language market.

The company has had some success in the space already. They count Barceló Viajes, the Government of Catalonia, the City of Mijas, the Government of Andalucia, Punto Inmobiliario, TUI and the University of the Balearic Islands amongst their current customers.

Alfesco's CEO, John Powell, points to strong CMS market expansion, both in Spain and in South America, as the driving force behind their investment in the Spanish language resources.

Other open source CMS vendors -- notably eZ Publish -- have also been doing well in both Spain and Latin America.

eZ Publish is more strictly a Web CMS platform which has been gaining ground in the online publishing space in Europe, Latin America and now in the good old US of A. In Latin America -- where Bogotá-based Aplyca has been leading the charge -- La Pensa, the largest online publisher in Honduras, is running on the platform and Spanish-owned Grupo Santillana, a member of the Groupo Prisa media group both run their Intranet on and are currently implementing an eZ solution for at least one title.

Norwegian Web content management vendor eZ Systems have released an all-singing, all-dancing expansion for their popular open-source eZ Publish resource. The new package includes support for PHP 5, a snazzy new search utility -- eZ Find -- and promises "a smooth upgrade path for existing eZ Publish sites."

Norwegian software shop, eZ Systems, have updated their open source Web Content Management System. The eZ Publish v3.9 release focused on features and fixes requested by eZ Publish clients, partners, and their open source community.

Choices, choices, choices... but no big players yet. That's the message for European CMS technology buyers, according to the European edition of the CMS Report by CMS Watch, released today. "Standard", and "Enterprise" -- for large multi-site projects -- editions are available.

Norwegian group eZ Systems announces the latest release of their Open Source CMS, eZ Publish v3.5.1.

eZ publish is a professional Open Source Content Management System (CMS) and includes enterprise functionality for publishing, e-commerce, intranets and more.