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Added By Apoorv Durga on 7-Feb-2012
Last week open source document management vendor Alfresco released Version 4 of its (commercially-supported) enterprise edition package. As we've come to expect from Alfresco, it's long on buzzwords and interesting new directions, but a bit short on functional niceties and architectural continuity ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 30-Jan-2012
This week, the Joomla! community released version 2.5 of its open source CMS package. There are many new features but the key highlights of the new release are ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 6-Dec-2011
It's that time of year for our team of Real Story Group analysts to reveal our 2012 predictions, where we try to predict what the future holds in the technology world ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Nov-2011
We've just released a minor update to our Web CMS Report, which evaluates 42 major products from around the globe. Version 20.3 includes updated reviews of ... Continue Reading
Added By Sanjeev Gupta on 18-Aug-2011
I was recently updating the Nuxeo evaluation in our Document & Records Management Research, and the biggest news here is that the open source ECM vendor has replaced its repository layer ... Continue Reading
Added By Sanjeev Gupta on 19-Jul-2011
The Joomla! open source WCM community today released version 1.7, just 6 months after the release of 1.6. Perhaps because the development team has been busy stabilizing a 1.6 trunk that was packed with many new features, version 1.7 does not offer much of significance for end users ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 19-Apr-2011
I am asked this question a lot in relation to different vendors. I know the answer. But I am always perplexed by the origin of the question. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 11-Apr-2011
As I've noted on this blog many times before, a lot of Google Search Appliance's "features" are actually outside-of-the-box, rather than out-of-the-box. That can present an unpleasant surprise to many Google customers. But ironically, it's also a great advantage to anyone who wants to use ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Apr-2011
In the early days of Web Content Management, many customers tried to employ the same technology -- and often the same physical infrastructure -- for publishing both their intranet and public websites. During most of the past decade, the trend has been to separate these efforts ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 3-Mar-2011
More than eight years after its inception in pure VB.NET, open source project DotNetNuke decided to make a leap and move its entire CMS core to the more modern and widely supported C# ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 2-Mar-2011
This seems to be a season of "proposals" by open source vendors to attach pieces of their code to a larger foundation. It sounds promising, but the benefits for you the customer could remain far off ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Feb-2011
This month's update to our Web CMS Report evaluations offers the latest critiques of nine web content management vendors: ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 9-Feb-2011
Unlike most acquisitions in the Content Technology Marketplaces that we cover, this one actually seems like one in which there is not much overlap between two vendors' offerings. Antenna Software, a provider of mobile applications mainly for enterprises, acquired Volantis Systems, a company focused on delivering content to mobile browsers, concentrated more on the consumer Internet ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 8-Feb-2011
Google demonstrated Android 3.0 -- a.k.a., Honeycomb -- last week. Honeycomb is a version of their mobile operating system optimized for tablets. It works within a bigger form factor, and also packs in much more power to be able to run videos, games, and other applications better. But that's not the point of this post ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 17-Jan-2011
An omnibus platform like SharePoint presents two challenges to Microsoft in the web publishing arena:
Neither challenge is prohibitive, but both are potentially problematic ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 13-Jan-2011
I recently had the chance to sit down with the famous John Gilroy of Federal Tech Talk on Federal News Radio in Washington, DC. The 30-minute show aired earlier this week, but you can listen to or download the archive ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 5-Jan-2011
After a long wait, extended several times, Drupal 7 was released today. So what is it like, and should you rush over to download and install it right away? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Dec-2010
One question I get on a regular basis is, "so, what's the best CMS?" And I invariably reply, "it depends." There really is no best CMS; there is only the best fit for you, in your scenarios ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 8-Dec-2010
We always follow the communities around specific products quite closely. Whether an open source or commercial closed source system, product communities can give us great input on the real story. But one thing to remember is that the most active and enthusiastic communities are also a really biased source of information ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-Nov-2010
ECM3 is without a doubt the most successful maturity model for ECM, with downloads of the model passing the 5,000 mark recently ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 14-Oct-2010
Alfresco recently released a new community version 3.4 of its Content Management System. The enterprise version of this will be released later this year. The latest version has some new features as well as enhancements such as a sample application called Web Quick Start, DocLib portlets, Distributed Repository Replication, Enhancements to Alfresco Web Editor (AWE) and Share. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 24-Sep-2010
Competitors and Partners, eXo and JBoss have both announced their new Portal offerings based on their collaborative project GateIn. While JBoss had released Enterprise Portal Platform (EPP 5) a while back, eXo released eXo Platform 3.0 this week ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 21-Sep-2010
Rather quietly, IBM has replaced the search index within their OmniFind Enterprise Edition. The latest release of this search engine, version 9.1 supports new search collections that are based on Lucene ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Aug-2010
Many observers expected big things when DotNetNuke Corporation raised serious venture capital in November, 2008. (DotNetNuke Corporation is the commercial entity behind the sprawling, open source CMS community by the same name) ... Continue Reading
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