Ez Systems News & Articles

The Red Herring list of the most impressive worldwide 100 private tech companies features some familiar names to the CMS crowd.

Welcome to the February installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS projects in the next month.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.

eZ Systems’ (news, site) 2010 New Year's resolutions are all customer-serving: look-and-feel editing, XML export and collaboration in eZ Publish 4.2 open source web content management system.

Normally in this space we look back over the current month and forward into the next month at what the various open source CMS projects are up to. But rather than blindly putting out an update for January, we thought we'd look farther ahead into what everyone wants to accomplish throughout next year. Call it our open source 2010 predictions with less guesswork and high hopes.

Welcome to the December 2009 installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS projects in the next 30 days.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.
 

eZ Systems (news, site), the self-proclaimed leader in commercial open source content management, has a new head honcho to guide the company through the fierce waters ahead.

Welcome to the November 2009 installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS projects in the next 30 days.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact for your project updates.

The eZ Publishing community (news, site) has just landed themselves a new Community Manger.  

Nicolas Pastorino is no stranger to the company. He steps into the Community Manager role having already acted as eZ's Expert Consultant at eZ Systems Western Europe, an eZ Labs Engineer and a member of the Product Management team. 

"We need a full time Community Manager," says Bertrand Maugain VP Marketing at eZ. "Nicolas's experience from some of the most demanding projects as well as from eZ Labs development team will be very important in that new position." 

The news of Pastorino's new job follows the release of eZ Publish 4.2, which is said to focus on usability, scalability and performance, as well as the announcement of eZ's new Business Partner Program.

"One of the key responsibilities of the Community Management team is to help accelerating such a process via a brand new platform, meant to be a central communication means, strongly connected to the currently existing community tools and websites," said Pastorino. "It will be launched on November 2nd."

Well, we said it was coming and now it's finally here. eZ Publish 4.2, the most updated version of eZ Systems' (news, site) open source CMS, was released earlier this week. 

Complete with a new Edge Side Include (ESI) integrating extension called eZSI, eZ Publish 4.2 focuses on usability for both end-users and editors, as well as scalability and performance. Let's take a look:

Welcome to the October 2009 installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS projects in the next 30 days.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.

Enterprise search seems to be a hot topic today. PolySpot (news, site), a French company that provides such solutions, recently announced that they’re going to be collaborating with the ever-popular eZ Systems (news, site).

Like several other solutions on the enterprise search block, PolySpot's technology filters through numerous types of resources including secured files stored either within the enterprise or externally. By hooking up with eZ Systems, users can access eZ Publish's digital content management resources through the PolySpot interface. Seemingly big fans of the open source CMS, this partnership also nicely highlights PolySpot’s recent eZ Publish connector.

"We are very excited about this collaboration,” said Roland Benedetti, vice president Product Management, eZ Systems. “Simply connecting eZ Publish with PolySpot Enterprise Search represents an exciting opportunity for our common users. They will then be able to benefit from a comprehensive and coherent information access system on which IT departments can rely on.”

For more information on Polyspot, check out their homepage here (you can switch it to English). For the latest goings-on with eZ, stick with us.

If you're into open source content management systems, then this ought to catch your eye.

Today at 5 pm Central European Time, 11 am Eastern Time you can join eZ System's co-founder and CTO, Bård Farstad, for a preview of their coming 4.2 release of eZ Publish (news, site). This version contains some interesting enhancements including:

• significant scalability improvements
• a new eZSI extension, providing full support for the Edge Side Include standard
• eZ Find search engine updates including an Apache Solr foundation, faceted search, external content source support and automatic content relations
• an improved content rating system for public users
• eZ Flow updates including improved admin integration and new content blocs

 If eZ Publish is your CMS cup of tea, head on over and sign-up now. Note that the production release of version 4.2 is targeted for the end of this month. We'll have more on that soon.

Installing everything needed for a CMS can be quite daunting, so it comes as welcome news that eZ (news, site) has developed an all-in-one installer for those just starting out or switching in the open source CMS world.

Welcome to July 2009 installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS projects in the next 30 days.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.

Tony White of the Gilbane Group began his talk on the evolution of the Web CMS market with an observation. White, apparently something of an early-bird, spotted 22 people in his hotel lobby at 6:30 a.m. this morning. Over half of the people there were taking advantage of the free wifi to browse the Web, while only one person was reading a newspaper. He asked the attendees to imagine how different the behavior of his fellow early risers would have been even as little as five years back.

In a fast-paced talk, White went on to share some of his observations as a consultant specialist in Web CMS. He resumed the market briefly as a wide spectrum from low-end point solutions to complex enterprise platforms, with almost no correlation to price, and warned attendees of putting too much trust into analysis that assume a correlation between cost and quality, as it may not be the case.