US federal IT budgets continue to expand, but not evenly across departments and programs, and spending for non-security IT projects falls under unprecedented scrutiny today.

It's tax day today in the USA. And this year, US citizens will contribute about two-tenths of a cent each to purchase a comprehensive set of Vignette tools and services to support a novel experiment.

The open-source MySQL database is extremely popular.

If you're going to deliver your hard-earned, approved content via the web, wouldn't you also want to distribute it via e-mail as well?

After officially finalizing its acquisition of Epicentric, Vignette is now pushing an entry-level CMS-Portal combo for 125,000 dollars US.

In an excellent critique of many ECM fallacies (check out OpinionWatch, above), Jim Howard makes a strong case for basing web content management projects around departments or even workgroups.

Should major CMS software vendors also provide their solution as a hosted service? None of them do right now (though some of their partners have set up ASPs).

Our e-mail inboxes suggest that a lot of people out there crave more information about open source content management systems.

Let's say your short-list of CMS vendors includes both public and private companies.

If you're a prospective software buyer, we can already guess what you think: they suck... Aussie consultant James Robertson has posted a very quick survey allowing you to review, rant, and generally rate CMS product sites.

When CMS vendors detect weakness in a competitor, they often propose discounted migrations.

RSS continues to flow into the mainstream.

Many KM projects get funded on a business case built upon saving staff time.

As faithful CMS Report readers know, many web content management products follow a loosely-coupled or completely decoupled management/delivery architecture, while others bundle content management and delivery tightly within one package.

If you develop software, and your company lives long enough, you can sometimes win patents for your innovations.