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.
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.
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.