Open Source News & Articles

Plone 4 (news, site) not only ramps up on features but also paves the way for future releases that will offer even more.

Welcome to the September installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.

MediaCore (news, site) adds HTML 5 to offer fully compatible video on iPhone, iPad and other devices.

German web content management vendor Innovation Gate Gmbh decided earlier this year to rebrand version 5 of their Java-based product as open source. Let's take a look at what they're offering and where it fits.

You might recall that in our Open Source Alert at the end of July we mentioned that Squiz (news, site)  said it was working on something top secret.

The secret is out. Squiz is joining the Web Engagement Management (WEM) bandwagon. 

It's great that open source offers flexibility and so much more. However, managing the licensing structure is confusing for many developers who incorporate or interact with open source code. The Linux Foundation (news, site) recently released a program to help chart your way through sometimes choppy waters.

Never one to slow down it seems, DotNetNuke (news, site) has some new capabilities across its range of open source web content management editions, and a new edition altogether.

CMS Made Simple (news, site) Web CMS keeps rolling out the updates to its growing audience that recently hit the seven-figure mark.

Seems security has been high on everyone’s list of priorities this week with FaceTime releasing its Socialite software to secure social networks, and HP buying Fortify to add application security at the blueprint stage. Not surprising though, after recent research from Gartner showing security software is a priority for enterprises.

With the growing use of open source code across corporations, there is considerable unease about use of the code and compliance. The Linux Foundation has decided to tackle this and is offering free tools to trace your sources. Meanwhile, new research from Symantec shows information retention is still a problem.

It's that time again. Packt Publishing (news, site) has launched their fifth annual awards, but they've changed things up a bit this year.

If your working life revolves around the release date of software products, then you just gotta love open source Web CMS provider Tiki (news, site). Not only have they released v5.1 of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, they have also announced a date for the release of v6.0 and given us a good idea of what will be in v7.0.

Looking for a CMS that's just a little bit different, why not give the latest version of open source Weceem, a new upcoming Grails-powered CMS a go.

Magnolia CMS (news, site) released Magnolia Blossom - a new module for integration with the Spring Framework. The goal is to cater to Java developers who prefer to work in Spring vs. the Magnolia CMS interface.

Those who need to build and deploy community sites now have another option. Acquia (news, site) has released version 1.0 of Drupal Commons.