IBM has released its IBM Security Solutions X-Force 2009 Trend and Risk Report, and the news for users of popular WCM platforms Drupal, Joomla!, TYPO3, and WordPress is decidedly mixed
We're often asked why there are so few ECM open source options, when at the same time the Web CMS marketplace supports so many open source alternatives?
Some people prefer the open source, PHP-based Joomla! Web CMS because it is relatively
simple to install and run. But just as complexity can bring unexpected problems,
so too can simplicity
A nicely-researched
article on Linux.com investigates a growing dust-up in the Joomla!
community regarding licensing and business models. Joomla! is an open source
CMS package that forked
from Mambo a couple of years ago. After encouraging 3rd-party development
of commercial add-on modules, Joomla's leadership is reconsidering its approach
in light of the core package's somewhat purer GPL license,
Leaders of the open source ECM project Nuxeo caused a stir recently when they decided that their heretofore Zope/Python codebase would migrate completely to Java.
As a follow up to recent split by the original Mambo development team, and subsequent forking, Australian vendor Miro recently issued a press release announcing that they have transferred all rights to Mambo Open Source CMS to the Mambo Foundation for 1 dollar.
Only 17 days after the Mambo development team split from an effort led by a private company (Miro International) to create a new Mambo Foundation, the former has launched a new product called Joomla!