Content Management Matters ™

A potentially exciting development, this. The ever-industrious Bangalore developer SpikeSource has given the Alfresco (Enterprise Ed.) open-source CMS platform the SpikeIgnite treatment.

The results are likely to excite those that are interested in acquiring open source CMS functionality, but are worried about implementation and support issues.

SpikeSource has announced the latest version of its SpikeIgnited version of the Drupal web CMS solution. With Drupal 5.1 as its muse, this is the first SpikeSource solution that's been tested and certified for both Microsoft Windows and Linux.

Hoping to level the playing field with Microsoft SharePoint and perhaps make a little open source cheddar, Dutch software outfit O3 is releasing its O3Spaces back office suite for OpenOffice and StarOffice. While it is far from offering all of the features of SharePoint (MOSS) 2007, it is definitely something that that open source and hybrid Microsoft/open source shops should consider for document management.