Taking a cue from Documentum and Interwoven, Stellent has purchased a DAM vendor, Ancept.

We have frequently pointed out that MS Content Management Server provides mid-market functionality at an upper-tier price ($125k out of the gate).

People frequently ask us what distinguishes an Upper Tier from an Enterprise Web CMS. There are several distinctions.

Vendors will tell you that most of the CMS action is now in the mid-market -- that is, point web content management (WCM) solutions where product licensing starts at $40-80,000 USD.

It may scare the daylights out of your Creative Director, but we think browser-based image editing is a concept that will stick.

By Version 5.x, Interwoven's TeamSite family of CMS products faced 2 main challenges: a plethora of confusing user interfaces, and a developer-unfriendly customization environment.

Old CMS's never really die. From WorldWeb to Starbase to Borland -- and now owner number four: Industrial Medium -- the technically tantalizing but seemingly ill-fated Expressroom CMS product lives on.

Little CMS vendor Ektron continues to innovate in some interesting ways.

Leading CMS industry analyst Frank Gilbane is again organizing a mini-conference on content management at this Autumn's Seybold show.

We've been watching how firms like Interwoven and Docucomp have flexed their patent muscles recently.

One conference that continues to exude a lot of commercial and intellectual energy is the annual AIIM gathering.

Interwoven is scheduling Launch Events around the world this July for the release of version 6 of their CMS.

ECM vendor Optika and WCM vendor Percussion are dating.

Like Francisco Franco, the Cold Fusion-based CMS package, Spectra, just doesn't seem to want to die.

Whenever a new technical approach becomes widespread, doubters raise performance and security concerns.