In a candid blog posting, project co-founder Alexander Limi lists 18 things he "wishes were true" about the open source Portal / CMS platform, Plone

Earlier this month at the annual Plone Conference 2007, the consulting firm "Plone Solutions" announced it would change its name to

After a few delays, the new version of Plone is due out quite soon. With significant user interface modifications, Plone is trying to address existing weaknesses while also adding new features.

Earlier this week CMS vendor Hannon Hill announced the launch of CMS Tube, a site providing video and podcasts about their product, Cascade Server.

The popular open source CMS and portal Plone has seen one of it forceful leaders take a new job at Google.

The Plone Foundation has recently announced the new Plone 2.5.

A savvy EMC|Documentum integration partner shared an observation recently that some new Documentum customers were opting for the company's collaboration product, eRoom, for basic document management.

I've seen various applications built off the noted open-source Eclipse IDE, and occasionally someone muses that perhaps that this developer environment could make a nice common contribution platform for real content authors as well.

A roadmap was released last week for no less than three upcoming versions of Plone.

When Alfresco made a noisy launch earlier this year, the new project put some noses out of joint elsewhere in the open-source CM community by claiming the mantle of first open-source ECM platform.

The New Zealand national government has embarked on developing a national content strategy (via Hilary Marsh).