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Janus Boye

FatWire buys Australian reseller

Added By Janus Boye on 30-Dec-2007

In news from "down under" Web CMS vendor FatWire has quietly bought a company called Future Tense Solutions ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

Content cleanup in the former East Germany

Added By Theresa Regli on 26-Dec-2007

There's no time like the holidays for catching up on back issues of The Economist (don't worry, we're baking cookies, too), and this morning I found myself engrossed by a tale of pattern matching ... Continue Reading

Janus Boye

2008: Are you ready for new browsers?

Added By Janus Boye on 21-Dec-2007

While the world is still waiting for vendors to fully support Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7), a new IE 8 appears to be coming just around the corner. ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

BEA, the Patent Office, and the Future of JCR

Added By Kas Thomas on 21-Dec-2007

Ironically, one of the main roadblocks to widespread adoption of JSR-170 (the Java Content Repository standard, now more accurately referred to as JSR-283) may be Java itself ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Analyzing the analysts

Added By Tony Byrne on 21-Dec-2007

CMS Watch evaluates vendors for a living. But what if we turned our gaze on our own predictions? ... Continue Reading

Janus Boye

Apache Shindig: where does the portal end and the social application start?

Added By Janus Boye on 20-Dec-2007

Last month, Apache member Brian McAllister proposed a new incubation project called Shindig, which would create an open source implementation of OpenSocial ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Enterprise Portals Report 2008

Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Dec-2007

Today we released the Enterprise Portals Report 2008, evaluating 16 Enterprise Portal products. Our first take: there is some good news ... Continue Reading

Janus Boye

Should you care about Vignette's three new patents?

Added By Janus Boye on 19-Dec-2007

In a press release from last week, Vignette announced three new US patents for what the company calls "Web Experience Innovation." ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

What we didn't predict for next year

Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Dec-2007

CMS Watch principal, Theresa Regli, makes an interesting point about what we didn't predict for 2008 ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Making Search Work

Added By Tony Byrne on 14-Dec-2007

That's the title of a badly-needed new book by Martin White. At CMS Watch, we tend to focus on search technology, with an eye toward helping ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Microsoft Sued Over (Lack of) Standards Compliance

Added By Kas Thomas on 14-Dec-2007

Is lack of standards compliance an anti-trust issue? The Opera folks think so ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

High-Touch Content Management

Added By Kas Thomas on 13-Dec-2007

Every once in a while, a game-changing technology overtakes an industry while it's napping. That seems to be happening right now with the iPhone ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

The Joy of Buy-Side Conferences

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Dec-2007

I have just returned from a Copenhagen seminar event (organized by our good friend and colleague Janus Boye), and just prior to that the Oracle UK User Group conference in Birmingham. Both events were organized exclusively for end users ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

Seeking a DAM good expert...

Added By Theresa Regli on 12-Dec-2007

We're currently conducting research into the Digital Asset Management marketplace, and we're seeking a couple of good independent experts to help us out ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

A holiday wishlist

Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Dec-2007

Dear Santa: It's early to be sending desiderata, but I imagine after this very eventful year your develop -- I mean elves -- must be very busy. Anyway, I'd be grateful if you could leave any of the following ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

Google Search Appliance still comes up short

Added By Theresa Regli on 10-Dec-2007

Last week, after giving a keynote on the current and future of Enterprise Search at the Online Information conference in London, the first question asked of me was, "Why shouldn't I just get Google? It's what my boss thinks is best." ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Google Sites: Unlikely to bite other Web CMS vendors

Added By Kas Thomas on 6-Dec-2007

Who would have thought that an after-hours Chamber of Commerce speech in Ann Arbor, Michigan by a former JotSpot exec could set the blogosphere abuzz with rumors of the impending death of Web Content Management as we know it? ... Continue Reading

Phil Kemelor

Omniture and Visual Sciences Get Nod from the FTC

Added By Phil Kemelor on 6-Dec-2007

Omniture's plans to acquire Visual Sciences cleared a major hurdle yesterday with the US Federal Trade Commission yesterday ... Continue Reading

Janus Boye

At last: Details out on MOSS 2007 SP1

Added By Janus Boye on 5-Dec-2007

Almost exactly a year after MOSS 2007 was released, Joel Olesen, Sr. Technical Product Manager at Microsoft, finally shed some light on future product plans ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

FatWire: No spoking, please....

Added By Kas Thomas on 5-Dec-2007

At the Gilbane conference in Boston last week, I chatted for a few minutes with new FatWire CEO Yogesh Gupta, who made what I thought was an interesting observation ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

ECM Suites Report 2008 Released

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 4-Dec-2007

Today we released the ECM Suites Report 2008, evaluating 32 Enterprise Content Management vendors. ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

VC funding for Drupal?

Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Nov-2007

I've heard from several different sources about a "hot deal" for venture capital funding of a Drupal-oriented start-up called Acquia ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

All universities are equal...

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-Nov-2007

...though some (especially the larger, more disparate institutions) may be more equal than others ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Backup is not Archiving

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 29-Nov-2007

Question: What's the difference between a backup and an archive? ... Continue Reading

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