With a new lite version of its CMS product, Microsoft is targeting the lower end of the marketplace -- where many observers thought the company belonged in the first place (see our earlier take).

OSCOM (Open Source CMS association) is organizing another hackathon to encourage development and -- dare we hope! -- inter-project cooperation on open-source client tools.

There are many good reasons to invest in strong Records Management systems, but it increasingly appears the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance may not be a good one.

Information Architect Lou Rosenfeld pointed out in these pages that technology vendors dominate idea-making in the CMS marketplace.

CMSWatch has just released the Autumn, 2003 version of The CMS Report, with updated analysis and product surveys.

The ECM industry's major trade association (and all-around cheerleader), AIIM, recently polled 333 end-user attendees at its CMS seminar series.

Niche Web content management products continue to hit the marketplace.

The German government has launched the first site managed by a new Web content management system, Government Site Builder, which was built by a local integrator, Materna, on top of a product from German CMS vendor CoreMedia.

It's tempting for CMS vendors to develop or resell portals, too, since many of their customers lack a robust content delivery environment.

So this is turning out to be a pretty good year for exposing fraud.

The desire to publish your website in multiple languages -- or more appropriately, to localize it for different international audiences -- is well-taken and seems increasingly important.

It's an old problem: how do you allow users to format text, but still keep the data standards compliant -- in particular XHTML compliant?

The University of California-Berkeley has updated its landmark report on digital content and found that the volume of information online has tripled during the past three years (though voice and e-mail still dwarf the Web in terms of overall throughput).

Wikis -- collaboration environments where visitors can edit pages -- are becoming more popular and could provide some interesting models for content management projects at a time when many organizations are looking for more ad-hoc collaboration on content than a linear workflow engine can typically provide.

CMSWatch is pleased to present a day-long workshop, Selecting web content management technology at the prestigious Online Information 2003 conference in London.