Demand for content management solutions appears to be rising globally, and Europe is no exception, but potential buyers and users everywhere still seek strategic and tactical advice about how to do ECM well.
As more web publishers migrate to XHTML+CSS -- either as a way station on the path to complete XML or as the web output from a structured repository -- people are beginning to reconsider the humble
Hosted CMS vendor CrownPeak was always a little different inasmuch as it offered a development sandbox of sorts for customer developers to modify applications and settings at a code level.
Well, this is sort of short notice, but if you can manage a trip to lovely Bordeaux in early July, it might be worth checking out what organizers are calling the first French conference on the topic of open-source content management.
Several ludicrous content management patents have been granted by the US PTO in recent years (c.f. Interwoven's) but Oracle's Self service system for web site publishing may trump all.
You probably know about the schism of sorts within the headline-syndication community between RSS (which has endured a variety of irredentist movements itself) and Atom.