In calling for greater "online transparency" (i.e., more, better, faster web content) along with more "citizen participation" (i.e., user-generated content), the Obama administration is going to encounter a technology marketplace ill-disposed to supplying both of those services in a single platform. Our latest research suggests that the two marketplaces of web content management and online community technology remain quite distinct.

From today's release:

Web CMS vendors and Social Software suppliers can talk a good game about offering a unified solution to this challenge, but their architectures have not caught up with their marketing here.

Today also inaugurates a kind of "dot-release" for our Web CMS Report 2009, as we move to a rolling update schedule with vendor evaluations revised more frequently as developments warrant. We've updated several major vendor chapters, including Oracle, Alfresco, FatWire, and more. If you subscribe to our Web CMS research service, or you purchased the report singly during the past ten weeks, you'll receive this update automatically.