Content Management Matters ™

It is universally known that a content management system is only useful when it has content to manage. Unfortunately, the problem of how to migrate content either into a new CMS or from one CMS to another is rarely considered ahead of time and is far from trivial.

A recent Forrester Research study -- involving 119 CIOs -- indicated that over 60% of those surveyed showed a "strong desire" to purchase and implement Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis and other light-weight collaboration tools. Manifesting a classic corporate quandary, those same CIOs also implied that they would prefer to purchase said technologies as a suite from a "large, incumbent software vendor".

Its not music to everyone's ears, but IBM with their new Lotus Quickr product intends to deliver for just such a crowd.

As if enough software companies haven't already hitched their wagons to Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS), echo Technology announces the beta release of its all-in-one MOSS administration solution.

The Web CMS mavens at Percussion Software just announced the release of Axceler, a company spun out of its collaboration division.