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Developers seeking to demonstrate their mad skills in Apache Solr/Lucene (news, site) Search now have something new to do other than stay up at night playing first person shooters on XBox 360. Lucid Imagination (news, site) is offering the first Lucene certification -- and it's free for a few Lucene Revolution attendees.

Nuxeo (news, site) is having a busy week with content management goodies. The company has gotten approval for its content repository, dubbed Apricot, and now it's announced a point release of its open source document assessment management (DAM) product over at the corporate blog.

Nuxeo (news, site) has announced that its content repository technology, has been approved and will soon be provisioned by the Eclipse Foundation (news, site). The project even has a new, much tastier nickname than the official Eclipse Enterprise Content Repository Project -- Apricot -- and it's just in time for summer.

It’s been a busy month in the cloud. PHP Fog has announced the general availability of its PHP PaaS joining Red Hat’s OpenShift multi-language PaaS announcement.

There is another new entrant to the Hadoop market. Belgium-based Outerthought has announced its repository for big data and content management, Lily. The company is simultaneously launching its commercial services, but has decided to play nice by supporting Cloudera’s (news, site) Distribution including Hadoop (CDH).

Open source portal provider Liferay (news, site) has announced a partnership with MuleSoft, maker of open source Mule ESB and MuleSoft TCat Server, a value-added distribution of Apache Tomcat. Liferay is now offering a Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition (EE) bundle with Tcat Server pre-installed and the all-important end-to-end support from one company. The move positions Liferay as an attractive lightweight, open source, middleware platform alternative to expensive enterprise solutions.

It's been a busy month for Nuxeo, provider of the open source Nuxeo Document Management platform. The lastest update includes the ability to wire your Enterprise CMS repository into Amazon's S3 cloud storage service. Read on for details.

What, the good ol' TIP, test in production, methodology isn’t good enough anymore? Apparently not. QMetry, provider of test case management solutions, and open source business intelligence platform provider Jaspersoft (news, site) announced integration of JasperReports Server Professional into the testing platform. The combined solution will allow organizations to actually see if developers are really “almost done” with that last round of code changes.

Open source enterprise content management (ECM) vendor Nuxeo announced the Nuxeo GSA Connector that enables Google Search Appliance to index and search content stored in the Nuxeo Document Management platform. Organizations using Nuxeo and Google’s search appliance can now have the ECM content in same search results as other content indexed by search appliance and actually get closer to living up to the “enterprise search” moniker.

The exponential growth of data created by social media, location sensors and other Web 2.0-style interactions has driven the emergence and growth of solutions to manage “big data” efficiently. Uber-fast MapReduce-based tools, such as Apache’s Hadoop, have emerged as some of the most popular. Data enthusiasts will be excited that Cloudera (news, site), commercial provider of Hadoop products, services, support and training, has finally announced the general availability of its own Hadoop distribution: Cloudera’s Distribution including Apache Hadoop version 3 (CDH3) -- makes data processing short, but apparently product names, not so much.

Occasionally, even those operating in the cloud have to concern themselves with real-world trivialities such as signing legal contracts. EchoSign and SugarCRM (news, site) just made that a little easier for their users.

Today is the last day of the fifth annual SugarCRM conference, SugarCon 2011. The momentum continues with more sessions, announcements and networking opportunities.

Today is day two of the fifth annual SugarCRM (news, site) conference, SugarCon 2011, but the first day of content. Many of the platform’s half-million users arrived in San Francisco yesterday to learn about and influence the popular open source CRM’s product direction, which seems to be increasingly focused on the social enterprise.