Open Source News & Articles

Open source CMS vendor ProcessWire has released a new version of its PHP-based platform. Version 2.2 is the third release for the CMS that went to beta in February 2011. Version 2.2 has a long list of enhancements and new features that may make the platform more attractive in the increasingly crowded open source CMS field.

Developing a new tech platform? Looking to invest in one? If only there was a way to kick the tires and evaluate its true value in advance. Now there is. Last week, Spigit and Aragon Research launched the Open Forecast Project, a community designed to leverage the power of crowds to accurately size and value emerging technology markets.

In the 2012 CODiE Awards for the Business Software Industry, SpringCM, Pervasive Software, Citrix Online and Coverity Inc. get recognized.

The open-source Web content management system, dotCMS, is now out with its 2.0 version. New features of the Java-based product include a customizable workflow engine, a scalable ElasticSearch, and the ability to customize fields, properties and relationships of files and document types on a per file basis.

Since 2010, Demandbase users have been able to use its Real-Time Identification service to better identify business web traffic, as it happens. Now, however, the module can be used for Drupal CMS users.

Everyone’s talking about Big Data, even your grandmother has probably heard of it. “I don’t much about it, but I know it’s important,” my 90-year old father-in-law told me when I brought it up in a conversation.

I bet he's not the only one still trying to figure it out. Then comes the big data appliance -- bring on the head swirling effects.

Last year Hippo, an open source web content management company, reported its highest revenue ever, and the growth pattern continues in 2012.

Open source customer engagement software maker Rivet Logic hit the road May 8 when they arrived in San Francisco with Alfresco, one of the largest open source CMS makers, for the inaugural Crafter Rivet Roadshow.

eZ systems is on the move once again with the announcement of its new partnership with IT specialists EPAM, and the move comes just as eZ Systems prepares to release the Etna version of its Enterprise CMS software.

Welcome to the April 2012 installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month. If you feel that your project was left out, we invite you to email us at pr@cmswire.com to have a project representative added to the list of people we contact for updates.

Open source enterprise content management system (enterprise CMS) platform provider Nuxeo has announced impressive new information about its growth in 2011. The company doubled both its revenue and customer base in the North American market, perhaps signaling a shift in market demand for more platform-centric solutions.

Almost anyone that works with technology and data has heard the mantra, “Trash in, trash out.” Invalid data is not a new phenomenon, but the age of big data has made this even more pronounced because the sheer volume of data makes human examination impractical. Open source business analytics provider Pentaho has teamed with data quality company Human Inference to make it a little easier for enterprises to ensure their business data is trustworthy.

There are countless predictions swirling that the world will end in 2012. Yesterday, we might have gotten a sign of the pending apocalypse. Microsoft announced a wholly owned subsidiary, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., dedicated to advancing the company’s investments in openness, interoperability, open standards and open source.  Yes, my friends, the fat lady has sung and the end is near.

There are a number of players in the web experience management (WEM) market, but there's always room for one more. RivetLogic's newest WEM offering, Crafter Rivet, is build on top of the well known Afresco open source content management system, bringing together all the functionality you need to create dynamic web experiences.

Social media may be a standard for modern communication, but the technology standards behind our defacto interaction mechanism leave a lot to be desired. However, the team over at the Apache Software Foundations (ASF) are taking a step in the right direction. ASF has promoted social media mashup platform, Apache Rave, to a top-level project after a year in incubation.