Typo3 News & Articles

Having content that no one can find, not even your own users, is useless. Every Web CMS project and company has to face this issue at some point. What to do about search?

These days, many come to exactly the same answer.

Welcome to the March installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS 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.

Using SharePoint as your Intranet application and open source Web CMS Typo3 (news, site) for your public facing website? Need to connect them to share content? Now you can.

It's that time again -- Packt (news, site) is announcing the winners of its Open Source CMS Awards. The lucky ones are narrowed down via community voting, and then judges make the final evaluations. Throughout this week we'll find out who won in each of the 4 categories:

1. Best Other Open Source CMS -- Congrats to the Plone (news, site) project for retaining last year's title!
2. Best Open Source PHP CMS -- Congrats to Drupal who's win was announced this morning.
3. Most Promising Open Source CMS -- Coming November 11, 2009.
4. Best Overall Open Source CMS -- Coming November 13, 2009.

Runners up for 2009's Best Other Open Source CMS are dotCMS (news, site) and mojoPortal (news, site). The winning projects receive prize money as well, $2000 to Plone and $500 each for dotCMS and mojoPortal. Previous winners for this category include Plone's 2008 win and mojoPortal in 2007.

Those who made Packt's 2009 Open Source CMS Most Valued People list were also announced. the list includes:

• Robert Campbell for CMS Made Simple (news, site) 
• Dries Buytaert for Drupal (news, site) 
• Louis Landry for Joomla! (news, site) 
• Ryan thrash for MODx (news, site) 
• Joe Audette for mojoPortal (news, site) 
• Kasper Skaarhoj for TYPO3 (news, site) 
• Leo Feyer for TYPOlight (news, site) 
• Taiwen Jiang for XOOPS (news, site) 

List members were nominated by the developers and community of each project.

[Editor's Note: Check out our 2009 Open Source CMS Market Share report for details on the 20 most popular open source content management systems.]

Following on the heels of the 2008 Open Source CMS Market Share Report, this year we collaborated with water&stone to produce an improved 2009 version. The report is an interesting study of 20 dominant systems in the market. It's really not about which CMS is best, nor about relative comparisons beyond brand strength, sentiment and adoption patterns. We're aware of this.

Traditional and Social Media Analysis

What the study did was sniff around the nooks and crannies of our increasingly electronic and publicly broadcast lives and endeavor to quantify the relative brand strengths, brand sentiments and adoption patterns for the top 20 most popular content management products. In addition, we ran a survey on CMSWire.com a little ways back. With this tool we were able to directly pose questions to our readership -- and more than 1200 of you took to the task (thank you!).

This year's analysis looked at Alfresco, CMS Made Simple, DotNetNuke, Drupal, e107, eZ Publish, Jahia, Joomla, Liferay, MODx, OpenCms, phpWebSite, Plone, SilverStripe, Textpattern, TikiWiki, Typo3, Umbraco and WordPress.

Key Conclusions: 3 Dominate, Many Are Vibrant

What jumped quickly out is that The Big Three -- Joomla, WordPress and Drupal -- led the survey set across a wide range of measures. However, the top slots are not static, Joomla has gained market share over Drupal, and WordPress with its hosted version has what looks like a smoother path to adoption.

The report identifies less obvious stars. Alfresco, a vendor focused on both document management and web content management, performed well across a number of categories, and led the Java-based open source CMS race over its nearest rival, Liferay. DotNetNuke led the .NET-based open source CMS category, though Umbraco is up and coming.

The report goes on to identify reasons why DotNetNuke's position may soon be changing. In addition to naming the market leaders, the study identifies projects whose market share and brand metrics indicate they are at risk or facing a closing window of opportunity. A metric we found of particular interest was the product evaluation rates versus the adoption rates.

The 90+ page report is available for free and includes profiles of each of the systems covered.

CMS Watch (news, site) has just released the 17th edition of their independent research report on Web Content Management: Web CMS Report 2009.

In this latest release, CMS Watch notes that there is another wave of web content management vendors from Europe entering the North America market. These vendors are offering a greater variety of options especially in the areas of .NET and open source. And these are not new vendors, many have been around awhile, just focused on the European market.

According to Tony Byrne, CMS Watch founder, European and UK-based Web CMS vendors have been trying to break into the US market for over a decade. There are been two previous waves: successful in wave 1: RedDot and Day Software, successful in wave 2: Sitecore and Tridion.

This "third wave" includes some well-known vendors:

• Telerik and EpiServer: Offering solutions to the SMB market and challenging existing vendors like Ektron and Sitecore
• eZ Publish, TYPO3 and Drupal: All three are developing strong partner relationships in North America

And while they think this is a good thing, CMS Watch is advising caution and due diligence. “Crossing the Atlantic in either direction is very hard for a Web CMS vendor,” adds Byrne.  “Building effective support structures is a process that takes years, so North American customers should carefully weigh any newcomer’s current abilities as well as long-term staying power.”

You can get the full report here.

TYPO3, the open source content management solution, is bringing their TYPO3 Conference to North America in 2009. The conference is the company's first in North America and is packed with loads of goodies including presentations, tutorial sessions and a free social Friday.

TYPO3 Extension Development by Dmitry Dulepov, a TYPO3 core developer, is a recent book from Packt Publishing. It is aimed towards those looking to get their hands dirty with — unsurprisingly — TYPO3 extension development.

The book takes its readers from the beginning process of planning a TYPO3 extension to writing the documentation that will allow others to better understand the developer’s hard work. The book won’t make anyone an award-winning TYPO3 extension developer overnight, but it can help provide a solid foundation to build upon.

It all started with the SweeTS - TypoScript Development. This first “real” development environment for TYPO3 and TypoScript was good, but not really an “enterprise” development tool. So three guys and a gal — Sebastian Böttger, David Brühlmeier, Eckhard M. Jäger (the creator of SweeTS) and Nina Meyer – got together and decided to build a truly enterprise SweeTS development environment based on Eclipse.

Hot off the gossip wire: IBM is falling for Drupal. Hmmmm. ECM leader IBM has developed a series of nine tutorials for Open Source CMS Drupal. And as it turns out, Drupal runs rather well on IBM Linux servers while plugged-into IBM’s DB2 Express-C database. The final tutorial covers just exactly how to do that.