Open Source News & Articles

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.

Ever wonder how secure your open source web application really is? Security company Qualys has a tool called BlindElephant that can tell you, and they have run some tests.

The folks at Spoonlabs released version 4.5 of their Vivvo (news, site) open source content management system. In addition to over 450 resolved issues, there is also a number of new features and other improvements. And, most importantly to some, a new licensing model.

Welcome to the August 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.

Furthering the initial release of Nuxeo DAM, the open source Enterprise CMS company Nuxeo (news, site) is adding new functionalities to its Digital Asset Management product in version 1.1.

Microsoft was at O'Reilly's OSCON conference last week speaking about the need for interoperability with cloud platforms. Here is their take on Open data, Open Cloud.

CubicleSoft released a simplistic platform this month called Barebones CMS. Aptly named, the system is composed of just the essentials, reportedly making it easier to use than popular solutions such as WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. 

If for no other reason other than the fact that the recently upgraded community edition of Logical Objects document management system is open source, and that even the premium enterprise commercial edition is cheaper than most, the recent upgrade to v5.2 of LogicalDOC is worth a look.

 Rackspace (news, site) may have raised more than a few eyebrows this week when it announced that was open sourcing its hosting platform, but will the move bring more customers on board?

Open source company TeamLab adds new features to its SaaS enterprise portal.

This past March we saw a hint of what was coming from the open source Web CMS project called MODx (news, site). Now their latest release, MODx Revolution v2.0, has officially arrived. This is the future of the MODx project. Let's take a peek.

Attention all you Drupal (news, site) heads! The DrupalCon conference in Copenhagen is coming up,  so if you're going to be in Europe at the end of August, swing by for some face time with project founder Dries Buytaert. 

Attention all CMS vendors, IKS (news, site) is inviting you to take part in a survey for evaluating their product's coverage of features, particularly with respect to semantic capabilities. 

If you've got more than one Google account, today's news about a feature in the works may interest you. The team members behind Google Operating System reported that Big G is testing a feature that will allow users to log into multiple Google accounts from the same browser.