Content Management Matters ™

The battle of the open source CMS continues. Well some might not consider it a battle, but there is a definite push to stay at the top by the leaders of the pack. WordPress is no slouch where that is concerned. In the news again, WordPress announced the release of version 2.6 -- a month ahead of their original schedule no less.

If the Web is really about content, WebEngine is all about allowing content to be found.

Nuxeo, a leading open source ECM vendor, unveiled WebEngine, an open source web framework focused on content. Designed to be lightweight and versatile, WebEngine aims to allow users to quickly build and deliver next generation content-oriented web applications. A generation that is about more than just web publishing.

The 2008 Open Source Content Management System Awards hold a prestige that many strive to reach. To receive one of these awards solidifies an open source WCM as a top contender on the web. With Drupal pushing out Joomla last year, will they keep their spot?…will WordPress be awarded again?

The time has come...

It's always good to see your name in ink -- even in this day of almost everything being virtual. Such is true for open source enterprise content management provider Alfresco, whose Community Edition 2.2 was recently reviewed by Business Computing magazine receiving the Editor's Choice Award for their June Issue.

Mention web content management and open source in a single question today and you commonly get two words back: Drupal and Alfresco. These are the two most well-known open source content management solutions in the market today. It seems that Forrester has not been too busy dishing up Enterprise 2.0 predictions to recognize this.

At the eZ Conference developer day this week, eZ Systems announced plans for the newest upcoming version of their web content management system eZ Publish 4.1. This latest version will have some new back-end support and enhanced user experience features.

In addition, a new version of eZ Components was announced this morning which includes three new components.

Joomla, one of the foremost names in open source web content management is upping the bar for the competition. The early release of Joomla v1.5.3 comes on the tail of one of their major competitors, Drupal, having been named in Webware’s Top 100 last week. Is Joomla responding to being left out?

There were no fireworks, no fanfare or screams of "It's Here!, come and get it!". Last week, Alfresco very quietly released the newest version of their enterprise content management system. We here at CMSWire thought that was strange for such a well-known popular ECM.

So we contacted the folks over there. They told us that in a few weeks, Alfresco will officially, formally launch the release of Alfresco Enterprise Edition 2.2. Then they allowed us to grace the presence of their Chief Marketing Officer, Ian Howells, who taught us a few things about the impetus behind the release.

Remember when WordPress fans held fast to 2.0.x after the release of 2.1.x? Was it just an reluctance to change? Well, hopefully this is not the case with the newest version of the prolific publishing platform. WordPress v2.5 offers better functionality and continues the ease of use tradition -- all in a more aesthetically pleasing packaging that works better for you…at least that’s the idea. Read on for the details.

KnowledgeTree has released for general availability it's newest service KnowledgeTreeLive. KnowledgeTreeLive is a SaaS Document Management solution for small to medium sized businesses and is completely built on open source technologies.

After being in beta for awhile, we imagine they've added a few new features that will make it better than before.

The ImpressCMS Project has announced the release of ImpressCMS 1.0, the first stable release of their PHP/MySQL-based content management system. It aims to deliver an extensible open source platform to create interactive and professional websites.

Ladies and gentlemen, the results are in for the first annual Alfresco Content Excellence Awards, where Alfresco's top partners and contributors are recognized in the categories of Partner of the Year, Content Management and Collaboration Implementation of the Year, and Web Content Management Implementation of the Year in Europe and North America.

So without further ado, here are the results:

It's Crystal Ball time once again, when every two-bit hack on the Web reaches for the ether and prises back the veil of time, peering into the murky future.

Dries Buytaert is no hack - he's the founder of Drupal and the co-founder of Acquia. But he's as entitled as anyone else to play Nostradamus, and he's just outlined his vision of what we can expect in the open source CMS world, and in the Drupal project over the next twelve months.

Global CMS and content infrastructure purveyor Day has added a handful of major contributors, from the annals of open source, to its senior developer team.

Poaching from the resources of the open source movement is an activity of growing popularity. In particular, open source Web CMS offerings are less expensive and increasingly more user friendly than many enterprise counterparts.

You can also count on an enthusiastic, auto-correcting bug-detector: the close-knit open source community itself.

SilverStripe, the mama-friendly open source CMS that was nominated "Most Promising" by Packt, has just released v2.1.0 of its primary offering.

The updates are extensive. In short, this PHP 5.2-modded version provides support for unit testing, themes and widgets, as well as comment moderation and stronger API documentation, and features for running SilverStripe in safe mode and under open_basedir restrictions. It also addresses bugs that were found in v1 and above.

Check out screenshots and such at the SilverStripe site.

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