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The Forrester Wave for Web Content Management For External Sites, Q2 2009 is out and there are 10 web content management vendors on the list that we all know and love well. SDL Tridion (news, site) took the top honors this time with Interwoven and FatWire close behind.

Why are these three vendors at the top and who else is on the list? Let's take a look.

IBM and Microsoft will be forever entwined if Mainsoft (news, site) has anything to do with it. The provider of Java EE-Microsoft SharePoint integration software is constantly coming out with new ways to integrate SharePoint functionality with IBM solutions.

This time, they integrate SharePoint's social networking capabilities with IBM's Rational Team Concert.

If you want your products to be used by big government, then Department of Defense certification is a must. IBM (news, site) understands this well. They have just announced that their solution:  Record Manager has just received its DoD Certification.

Xenos (news, site) has been doing enterprise content management for around a quarter of a century providing cross industry solutions for enterprise content management and enterprise report management . The company celebrates its achievements with IBM's ECM Software ValueNet Strategic Technology Partner of the Year Award for 2008. What are the capabilities that IBM thinks so highly of?

Another new coupling in the Content Management industry has just been announced. This time it's between IBM (news, site) and Quark, a vendor of publishing software. This partnership, they say, will see the adaptation of XML across entire enterprises by integrating Quark XML Author in the IBM FileNet Content Manager.

This new integration is designed to eliminate existing problems surrounding the creation of enterprise-wide DITA-based XML and allow any user working in Microsoft Word to author content that can be used and reused in multiple channels or formats.

A new content filtering and threat protection Web gateway appliance - V10000 - from US data and email security firm Websense will allow companies access Web 2.0 sites safely without worries about data loss, inappropriate content concerns or productivity and liability threats.

The company says the new gateway will not only block malware on individual web pages, but that it will allow users to access and use Web 2.0 sites where sections of the site are infected and at the same time block the malicious content from accessing the user’s company network.

IBM’s (news site) Lotus Web Content Management System is to ship with a second HTML editor following the announcement of a new OEM partnership with Ephox, the web content authoring software developer of EditLive.

According to Ephox (news,site), the new editor is for non-technical business users who do not know how to manipulate HTML and who are likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future.

In today’s high-tech world, companies rarely have it in them to wage full-on war against their competition, but any seasoned Web geek knows that’s simply because they’re too busy trying to outdo each other.

Of course, this isn’t always so. In fact, two of the biggest names in technology duke it out all the time. In their most recent tiff, IBM plays the schoolyard bully while Microsoft attempts to save face with a cool yet scathing blog response. The fire starter? Oh, just what's being called the most destructive force in technology.

Open source offerings and associated services are getting better and starting to seem less risky, while IT budgets are shrinking. Result? What's bad for economy is clearly good for open source.

A recent survey shows that web content management is one of the prime "targets" for disruption by open source.

Open source vendors rejoice, closed source companies nod in agreement and utter the magic word "interoperability."

IBM (news, site) has taken another step into the future with the launch of its North American Enterprise Content Management Systems Community.

Although only in its infancy, blog authors and community creators Ian Story and Ranjun Chauhan describe it as a community that will serve as a collaboration point for all users of the IBM ECM suite of products.

In November we announced that Mainsoft (news, site) had released a beta of their latest solution, Document Collaboration for Rational Jazz, SharePoint Edition. It offered IBM Rational Jazz teams the ability to store their documents within SharePoint and access that SharePoint document library directly in Jazz.

They have now released the final version of that solution and it offers integration with not only SharePoint, but Lotus Quickr as well.

Thunderhead, a company known for their innovations in document automation and multi-channel communications solutions, has got more than a few reasons to celebrate. After a top position in Deloitte Technology's Fast 500 for EMEA and a top 10 ranking for revenue growth in Software Magazine's Software 500, the communications superstars are being acknowledged in a huge way by a huge company.

In recognition of their sales success, solution development and easy integration with various IBM technologies, the company has been declared IBM's 2008 ISV Partner of the Year.

IBM and Google have partnered to improve the capabilities and value of personal health records – a core element of smarter healthcare delivery - starting with Google Health.

In collaboration with Google and the Continua Health Alliance, IBM launched new software that works to enable personal medical devices used for patient monitoring, screening and routine evaluation to automatically stream data results into a patient’s Google Health account or other personal health record (PHR). From there, patients can direct how their “health diaries” will be shared with physicians, family and other members of the extended care network.

In its biannual report released Feb. 2, 2009, IBM's X-Force research group pointed out significant security threat trends as we enter 2009, and paid particular attention to vulnerabilities found in PHP web content management systems such as Joomla!, Drupal, TYPO3 and WordPress.

The report is pretty. It has over a hundred pages. It has lots of nifty charts and graphs. But let's take a closer look at the what the net impact is.

IBM has announced a new suite of collaboration services straight from the cloud. LotusLive is their new portal offering a number of collaboration and social networking services. With integration from some solution providers like Skype, LinkedIn and Salesforce.com, IBM customers will be happy to go cloud-jumping.