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Blog posts about Open Source

Irina Guseva

Looking for a CMS-focused conference? Consider CMS Expo

Added By Irina Guseva on 25-Apr-2013

RSG subscribers and consulting clients often ask me for a recommendation on a content management conference. I have to admit: there aren’t that many CMS/WCM-focused shows left these days. But one of them is a three-day CMS Expo, set to commence on May 14 in Evanston, Illinois. ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Is Hybrid Cloud File-sharing Right for You?

Added By Apoorv Durga on 18-Mar-2013

Some common arguments against cloud-based services in general -- and cloud-based file sharing services in particular -- revolve around the security implications of your files getting stored outside your firewall.

A typical argument goes like this ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Portals Research Updates to WebSphere, WebCenter, Red Hat, SAP, Backbase, eXo, Liferay, Plone, and OpenText

Added By Apoorv Durga on 18-Feb-2013

Last week, we released Version 10 of our Enteprise Portals and Content Integration evaluation research ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Is Plone Really More Secure Than Drupal and Joomla?

Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Feb-2013

Security is a touchy subject in the Web CMS world in general and very touchy in particular among open source WCXM projects, since open source platforms are frequently accused (often unfairly) of being inherently insecure by dint of their more open development models.

So it's been interesting to watch some Plone adherents contrast their platform's security profile to that of some major competitors ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

What TinyMCE, FCK, and IE9 Problems Can Teach Us

Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Jan-2013

When Microsoft began releasing betas of Internet Explorer 9 in 2010, Redmond's huge global user community quickly started uncovering various strengths and weaknesses of the new version. One demerit quickly emerged that still hasn't completely gone away: IE9 doesn't play well with certain versions of the popular rich text editor ("RTE") TinyMCE as well as its main competitor, FCK/CK ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

Updated Evaluations for Solr-Lucene and Oracle-Endeca Search

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 10-Jan-2013

Today we updated our Enterprise Search evaluation stream, specifically with updates to two key platforms ... Continue Reading

Matt Mullen

What watching Top Gear can teach the technology buyer

Added By Matt Mullen on 13-Dec-2012

If you've not seen the UK show (or the local variants that exist in the US, Australia, and Germany), one of the regular features is to set a timed lap in a vehicle as part of a review. Same track, same(ish) driver, and therefore a reasonable comparison on performance.

There are some lessons here for technology buyers. ... Continue Reading

Matt Mullen

Why search - and Lucene - sometimes give me the split-brains

Added By Matt Mullen on 29-Nov-2012

The search market has similar, if distinct challenges to address right now ... Continue Reading

What a Failed Umbraco Release Can Teach Us About Upgrades

Added By on 28-Nov-2012

Experienced web professionals know that with content management systems there is no such thing as an easy upgrade. Upgrades have the potential to affect your existing customizations, plug-ins, and integration code. They can turn a perfectly healthy implementation into a dysfunctional and embarrassing work-in-progress ... Continue Reading

Matt Mullen

Should You Evaluate Open Source Projects Any Differently?

Added By Matt Mullen on 8-Aug-2012

When we recently updated our "Vendor Subway Map" to include our latest research streams -- Digital Marketing and Broadcast/Media Asset Management - there was some comment as to how we place open source projects amongst commercial vendors ... Continue Reading

Irina Guseva

Version 21.1 of Web CMS research adds MODX and Salesforce vendor evaluations

Added By Irina Guseva on 30-Jul-2012

We just released version 21.1 of our Web Content and Experience Management (WCXM) Evaluation Stream today, in which we’ve updated several evaluations and added two new WCXM vendors to the list ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Mind the Drupal Talent Shortage

Added By Tony Byrne on 16-May-2012

I had lunch the other day with a couple of acquaintances who work at a systems integrator (SI) that does a lot of work for the federal government (a.k.a., "beltway bandit").

They pointed out that, like SharePoint of yore, Drupal was all the rage among US federal web managers under this current administration. So naturally this SI went looking for experienced Drupal talent. And could not find any ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Google, Dropbox, Box, SharePoint, and others battle in the cloud

Added By Apoorv Durga on 27-Apr-2012

Google finally released its much rumored Google Drive, a new competitor in the increasingly crowded cloud-based file sharing and sync marketplace. As with all things Google, the Drive announcement generated a huge amount of hype across the blogosphere and twitterverse.

Many commentators compare Drive with Dropbox and to some extent Microsoft's SkyDrive and Apple's iCloud. However, there are many, many more choices ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Multiple Portals or One Single Portal?

Added By Apoorv Durga on 13-Apr-2012

In the good old days, when your firm's Enterprise Portal was a "gateway to the world," the thinking was that you needed to standardize on one single Portal platform, and perhaps even on single enterprise portal instance.

However, as we all know, that's not really very practical (both for technical and organizational reasons), and multiple portal platforms have always proliferated within organizations ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Portals Research version 9.1 has updates to IBM WebSphere and Liferay Evaluations

Added By Apoorv Durga on 6-Apr-2012

We've just updated our Enterprise Portals research with updates to our reviews of IBM WebSphere and Liferay.

Within the Portals marketplace, IBM and Liferay seem to be the ones that most frequently appear on customer short lists ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Rave Becomes a New Apache Portal Project

Added By Apoorv Durga on 5-Apr-2012

About a year back, when Apache Rave was announced, I had mentioned in my blog that It will be a while before Rave reaches a stage where customers can actually benefit from it. Now Rave has graduated to become an Apache top-level project. That itself is an achievement and congratulations are in order to the team supporting Rave. But is Rave anywhere closer to realizing its promise, and is it good enough today for you to consider it seriously for your Portal? ... Continue Reading

Irina Guseva

Razuna: Open source DAM for simple brand management

Added By Irina Guseva on 2-Apr-2012

In the recently released version 4.2 of our Digital & Media Asset Management Report, you will see several new products that we’ve added to our research. One of them is Razuna -- not only a new entrant to our report, but a novice to the DAM market in general ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

eXo Platform quietly goes for Cloud and Mobile

Added By Apoorv Durga on 8-Feb-2012

The open source eXo portal platform released their latest version 3.5 last week. eXo platform is a "portal-like" offering that we cover in our Portals and Content Integration report. It's based on the GateIn open source portal container that eXo co-developed with Red Hat JBoss. ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Alfresco Version 4 is Buzzword Compliant

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

Apoorv Durga

Joomla continues enterprise journey -- sort of

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

Jarrod Gingras

2012 Technology Predictions

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

Tony Byrne

Latest update to our Web CMS vendor evaluations

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

Sanjeev Gupta

A big repository change for Nuxeo

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

Sanjeev Gupta

Implications of Joomla! 1.7 and the Joomla! Platform

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

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