Major forces are buffeting the Web Content & Experience Management (WCM) marketplace, and key vendors and open source players are tacking in different directions in response. Some are expanding the scope of functionality, others are narrowing their focus, while others simply sail on like it's still the good old days.

As much any of the other five continents where we have research customers, we see that Europe is particularly regionally inclined: small vendors flourish in their local markets, often keeping out larger global competitors. But perhaps moreso than the rest of western Europe (UK excluded), out of DACH has come come of the largest technology powerhouses in content management, from the likes of SAP and CoreMedia to Day (since acquired by Adobe) and e-Spirit, to open source projects such as Magnolia, OpenCMS, and Typo3

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

We've just updated our evaluations of five Web CMS offerings, and added a new one (Atex Polopoly) to our report

I sometimes warn that a vendor's content management system is well suited to "simple" scenarios, but not necessarily a good fit for "more complex" cases. That's a bit problematic:

I get that question a lot, especially since one of our main services is called "CMS Watch"

IBM has released its IBM Security Solutions X-Force 2009 Trend and Risk Report, and the news for users of popular WCM platforms Drupal, Joomla!, TYPO3, and WordPress is decidedly mixed

As you can imagine, in the course of covering more than 200 software products, my colleagues and I get to see and touch a lot of different user interfaces, and one thing we've all noticed lately is the trend toward larger and larger interfaces

At CMS Watch we evaluate an awful lot of products, and making sense of all this research can be a challenge.

Typo3 is a longstanding and very popular open source Web CMS. Although written in PHP, Typo3 employs own declarative configuration language called "TypoScript" for templating. TypoScipt's language and syntax are sufficiently complicated to merit an entire book on it.

After an extended beta period, last week the Typo3 Association announced the official launch Version 4.

If you speak German, you can enjoy a new printed magazine about the open-source CMS, Typo3.

One of the social benefits of open source packages is that anyone can download them and start learning -- not just about that platform -- but about content management systems in general.