It just so happens that Interwoven and Vignette are both looking. Vignette's Thomas Hogan is moving on to HP Software (one of the companies occasionally rumored to acquire a content management vendor), while Interwoven's Martin Brauns is retiring, for the 2nd time.

Longtime readers know that an upgrade from Vignette's V6 to V7 CMS is really a complete product swap that has tempted many licensees to consider alternate packages.

Bob Doyle of CMS Review did a superb job filming the CMS Idol competition at last month's Gilbane Conference in Boston.

CMS vendor Percussion is beating the drums again about its free Request for Information template.

It should come as no surprise that CMS vendors are offshoring more development work.

CMS vendor Ektron started out as a WYSIWYG widget maker and pretty much made that market through OEM deals with several major CMS vendors.

In a recent blog entry about upgrades I riffed on hidden costs.

This article from Australian IT magazine comes with an alluring headline: Vignette chases small end.

The enterprise content integration (ECI) vendors never got very big, but the concepts they espoused had a major impact, and now just about all the independent ones are gone, as Oracle has reportedly acquired Context Media in an asset sale.

Running short of cash and struggling under a debt load, BroadVision has agreed to be purchased by a private equity firm.

The deal, which was announced by Interwoven, enables the Sun enterprise sales force to resell Interwoven tools along with Sun's portal, identity management, appserver, and hardware products.

The acquisition was perhaps predictable, since the two companies have had a partnership for 3 years now.

RedDot is proud that Forrester now recognizes them. We could well attribute this to better analyst relations.

Interwoven has announced plans for tighter integration between it's Worksite DM and collaboration tool and the Microsoft stack, including MS Office and SharePoint.

We pointed out 16 months ago that Vignette's own website delivers pages via V6 of the company's CMS product, with V7 running in the background for content management.