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Open Source Cms News & Articles
By Anthony Myers
| Tuesday Jun 11, 2013

Open source CMS vendor eZ Systems has relaeasd version 5.1 of its eZ Publish plaftorm, a minor update that includes the Symfony2 PHP Web framework, and a complete set of APIs.
By Anthony Myers
| Thursday Jun 6, 2013
Composite C1, the open source, .NET based CMS, has released version 4 of its main product after five public beta releases, and the system is now deployed on over 50 production websites running on a pre release version.
By Anthony Myers
| Friday May 31, 2013
Need a dose of open source CMS news? Our June roundup of news and updates for the open source community is all lined up and ready for your perusal.
By David Roe
| Thursday May 30, 2013
Web content management platform provider Drupal.org has advised its users to reset their passwords after admitting it had been hacked. There were no specifics offered on exactly when the hack had taken place nor how many accounts were compromised, but according to some reports it may impact nearly one million user accounts.
By Anthony Myers
| Wednesday May 22, 2013
Drupal cloud services provider Acquia has reported its revenue more than doubled in 2012, a sign open source implementations are reaching an all time high in popularity.
By Anthony Myers
| Tuesday May 7, 2013
Crafter Rivet is now Crafter CMS as Rivet Logic has spun off a company called Crafter Software to promote its the Web content and Web experience management system.

Personalization with content targeting feature in Crafter CMS.
By Anthony Myers
| Tuesday May 7, 2013
Open source CMS provider dotCMS released version 2.3 this week with a clear eye towards mobile devices. This update includes the very popular responsive themeing, and added tools like a link checker (just like what it sounds like) and a feature called time machine that shows what older site designs or even future site designs look like.

Responsive themes allow for an all in one design across websites or across devices.
By Anthony Myers
| Wednesday May 1, 2013
.NET based CMS Orchard has reached the 4,000,000 download mark for modules and themes (the CMS itself has 480,000 downloads), and is now readying its next release, version 1.7, for a June 2013 launch. It's a major release, and it will debut features like drag and drop multiple image imports, image processing and integrated slideshows.
By Anthony Myers
| Tuesday Apr 30, 2013

Considering WordPress as a Web content management system is something hundreds, and maybe thousands of website owners likely do on a daily basis, and we've got a ready-made short list of alternatives that we think are viable alternatives.
By Barry Levine
| Tuesday Apr 30, 2013
When two ecosystems get together, the result can be a bigger landscape. This week, enterprise portal vendor Liferay announced a new partnership with infrastructure provider TIBCO Software that is intended to simplify Liferay Portal’s integration with SAP, SharePoint, JD Edwards, Peoplesoft, Lotus Notes, Siebel and other systems.
By Anthony Myers
| Tuesday Apr 30, 2013
Every month we like to serve up a little open source CMS roundup, and like most months in this busy segment, May is packed with interesting tidbits.
By Anthony Myers
| Thursday Apr 25, 2013
Open source CMS provider Joomla! has released version 3.1 of its popular system. The minor update includes an integrated tagging system for identifying a variety of components in different ways.
By Katie Ingram
| Friday Apr 19, 2013
Open Source Content Management System provider, Plone, has released the newest version of its CMS: Plone 4.3.
By Anthony Myers
| Friday Apr 12, 2013
One thing enterprises like in a technology vendor is reliability, and open source CMS provider eZ Systems certainly has that in its new CEO. Not only is Aleksander Farstad the new CEO of eZ Systems, he's also a co-founder.
By Anthony Myers
| Wednesday Apr 3, 2013
Like posting content to Drupal sites from an iOS device? Acquia, the commercial provider of Drupal Web CMS services, has released the code base for building native iOS apps that can post content right to a Drupal website -- the first of its kind.