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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.

Day Software released three new editions of CRX, Day’s famed JSR-170-compliant Java Content Repository (JCR). These new goodies will make some developers and CIOs salivate -- especially those looking for leaner content infrastructure solutions based on Day’s commercial implementation of Apache Jackrabbit and Apache Sling.

In a nutshell, developers get free access to the CRX; and enterprises can get the CRX cheaply, on the pay-as-you-go model. Is that all? Not really. The impact on the entire Enterprise and Web Content Management industries may be a lot larger.

Our friends at CMS Watch recently announced their take on trends in SaaS Web Content Management for 2009. We've been contemplating about the future of SaaS WCM for quite some time ourselves.

Let's take a look-see at CMS Watch's predictions for the year to come and some more analysis of hosted Web CMS solutions.

PaperThin, the producer of ColdFusion-based Web CMS CommonSpot, announced that its 2008 Q2 and Q3 revenues shattered all company records, having grown an average of more than 50% year over year. Furthermore, the company’s average deal size increased by more than 30%.

Now, it’s time to update the product, perhaps. And PaperThin plans on doing so in 2009. The last major product release from PaperThin was in October, 2007, when CommonSpot 5.0 came out.

Following this week’s Windows Azure announcement by Microsoft, the ball was in the competition’s court. And Yahoo! responded with a cloud-related announcement of its own.

Yahoo! announced that it will offer the Zimbra Collaboration Suite as a hosted solution for educational institutions. According to Zimbra, over 500 schools are already using Zimbra. This hosted solution is currently available exclusively to .edu’s. Who knows — maybe, if all goes well, the solution will expand its wings beyond the .edu market.

In addition to recently wowing the CMS world by giving away a f*ree edition of its records management module, SpringCM just released version 4.5 of its SaaS Enterprise Content Management System.

The new release, while heavily focused on process management, also includes enhancements designed to improve document-centric processing and the SpringCM user experience.