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Open Text's plans are an extension of the company' strategy to maintain its leadership in comprehensive ECM solutions.
Offered as part of the Open Text ECM Suite, the solutions will help organizations establish deeper connections to customers and use the Web as a channel for new revenues.
“We remain dedicated to all our customers and the Web content management solutions they rely upon. Our plan is not to eliminate products, but to offer solutions that help our customers effectively fulfill their unique, organizational needs from strategic online initiatives to day-to-day site management tasks,” said John Shackleton, President and Chief Executive Officer of Open Text.
Quickly evolving social networking, digital media and mobile applications are moving the Web beyond brand promotion to become a core component of business strategy. Bringing these technologies together for a more powerful online experience is critical to engaging customers in new ways, improving the effectiveness of marketing programs and guiding changes in business strategy that can increase revenue and improve operations.
“Chief Marketing Officers, and now Chief Executive Officers, recognize the need for a comprehensive Web business strategy,” said Scott Bowen, Senior Vice President at Open Text. “We are seeing this trend from more of our large customers, across more industries, and the demand is for more sophisticated solutions that meet the fast-changing expectations in online experiences. Vignette adds the right technologies to our portfolio at the right time.”
As part of this strategy, Open Text will leverage technologies from both Vignette and its existing solutions to deliver new next-generation Web offerings. Vignette Content Management will form the foundation of Open Text's Web business solutions, providing personalized and multi-channel capabilities integrated with the Open Text ECM Suite.
Now the world's largest provider of Web content management (WCM) solutions, Open Text has said it will continue to develop both Vignette Content Management and Open Text Web Solutions as complementary offerings to meet the full range of WCM needs, from easy-to-deploy, departmental applications to more complex global deployments. Open Text will release Vignette Content Management version 8.0 and Vignette Portal version 8.0 in the second half of 2009. The recently released Web Solutions 10.0 will be followed by the release of Web Solutions 10.1 in the first half of 2010. Within 24 months, Open Text will launch an offering that combines key strengths of Web Solutions with the Vignette Content Management platform, making it the undisputed market and technology leader for Web content management solutions.
Vignette Social Media Solutions (Community Applications and Community Services) will be the basis of a new Social Marketplace offering, which will be added to Open Text s Social Media solutions, targeting Internet-style social media interactions and enabling existing Web sites with social content.
Current Open Text WCM customers will be able to take advantage of this new Social Marketplace package. In addition, Vignette Collaboration will continue to be enhanced as part of the underlying Vignette Social Media technology stack.
The company will announce more product plans in the weeks ahead, including related WCM modules and Vignette's Transactional Content Management product line. Open Text will also introduce a new product roadmap, which will include more details about its future Web business solutions, at its annual Content World 2009 Conference in October <a href="http://www.opentext.com/contentworld/2009/">http://www.opentext.com/contentworld/2009/</a>

Open Text announces its plans for Vignette since the Acquisition

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There seems to be quite a bit of confusion with regards to the value of the open source CMS market. For this reason, we're asking why you use open source cms products?
What makes you choose them over commercial options?
I've noticed more and more that there are quite a few comments being said that are not factual with regards to the value of open source products. Some commercial vendors, for instance, tend to weigh in with the argument that open source products are not well supported and are less secure than theirs.
What is your take on this? How do you defend the open source CMS market? Or do you agree with these arguments?
We want to know. Comment on this article and share your stories for those who are unsure which way to go. Perhaps you can help them make the right choice, whichever that may be.

Why do you use open source CMS products?

AxCMS.net is known as a powerful enterprise web content management system – with separated systems for managing the content and a second (or more in load balanced scenarios) for the productive environment.
With the version 9 they focused on the user interaction between the Editor and the content with the main goal being to improve the content handling and to shorten the time to market to a minimum.
Here is a video <a href="http://www.axcms.net/upload/en_introducing_AxCMS_9_low_11696.wmv" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">explaining the Silverlight Ribbon concept of AxCMS.net</a>
More info can be found on <a href="http://www.axcms.net">AxCMS.net </a>

AxCMS.net 9 has been released

The Elgg team have released a new update to the popular open source social networking cms.
Version 1.6.1 brings about the following changes:
<ul>
<li>Errors on registration with Default Widgets enabled</li>
<li>Broken tag search</li>
<li>Broken “Tools Administration” page when simplecache is disabled</li>
<li>Bookmark links missing</li>
<li>“View friends resources” links not working</li>
</ul>
Full details and download available on the <a href="http://www.elgg.org">Elgg site</a>.

Elgg CMS version 1.6.1 has been released

It's a busy day for releases today with a new release from the Typolight team as well. This new version is 2.7.3
The <a href="http://www.typolight.org/changelog.html">changelog</a> shows the full list of changes but here is a quick summary:
Build 3 (2009-09-06)
<ul>
<li>Added dynamic spellchecker languages to TinyMCE</li>
<li>Added pseudo entities [‎{‎] and [‎}‎] to output insert tags</li>
<li>Fixed issue with breadcrumb menu not handling redirect pages</li>
<li>Fixed issue with incorrect row count in forms with hidden fields</li>
<li>Fixed issue with empty rows in memberlists without username (#929)</li>
<li>Fixed issue with event feeds containing foreign entries (#866)</li>
<li>Fixed issue with certain multi-day events not being calculated correctly (#855)</li>
<li>Fixed issue with empty keywords being added to the meta keywords tag (#540)</li>
<li>Fixed issue with navigation icons not being disabled in the template editor (#761)</li>
<li>Fixed issue with insert tag “user” not formatting its output (#957)</li>
<li>Fixed issue with backlinks not being exempt from the search index (#896)</li>
<li>Fixed issue with special characters in file names not being decoded properly (#877)</li>
<li>Fixed issue with default user and group not being applied (#888)</li>
<li>Fixed issue with missing “readonly” attribute of text field widgets (#901)</li>
<li>Fixed issue with group login page overriding option “last page visited” (#916)</li>
<li>Fixed issue with nails of large images exceeding the memory limit (#922)</li>
<li>Fixed issue with subscriptions being activated upon registration (#881)</li>
<li>Fixed a few issues with the style sheet importer (#838)</li>
<li>Fixed various spelling issues (#942)</li>
<li>Fixed a few minor issues</li>
</ul>
More info and downloads of course on the <a href="http://www.typolight.org">Typolight website</a>.

Open Source CMS Typolight releases 2.7.3

<a href="http://e107.org">e107</a> has finally released a new version with 0.7.16. This popular open source cms appeared to have gone on hiatus for quite some time but it appears they were in fact working on a new release.
e107 is a great system and definitely easy to use. It's good to see some new action coming from their team. Here is a link to the changes for this release: <a href="http://e107.org/e107_plugins/bugtrack/changelog.php?0716">http://e107.org/e107_plugins/bugtrack/changelog.php?0716</a>
And of course, you can learn more and download the CMS from their website at <a href="http://e107.org">e107.org</a>

It has been way too long since we've seen a release from e107 but the wait is over with 0.7.16

<a href="http://www.pligg.com">Pligg</a> CMS began a template design competition today that offers cash prizes to the top Pligg templates.
The purpose of the competition is to foster new Pligg templates and to give Pligg designers an opportunity to earn both prominence and money for their efforts.
Pligg's recent Design Gallery addition to Pligg.com has been a great resource for Pligg designers. It showcases the best Pligg templates and lets users comment and vote on Pligg sites.
This contest will bring some fresh styles to Pligg CMS for others to work from and hopefully make it easier for designers to find a template closer to their specifications without having to alter much.
All templates entered into the contest must select an open source license so that others will be able to re-use the template on their own projects.
Every qualified entrant will receive a $20 Pligg Pro gift certificate to spend on Pligg modules or templates.
Winners will be announced shortly after the October 11 deadline. See the contest announcement page for more details and official contest rules. <a href="http://www.pligg.com/blog/610/design-a-template-win-cash-prizes/">http://www.pligg.com/blog/610/design-a-template-win-cash-prizes/</a>

Pligg CMS offers up a template contest to entice designers. Win cash and prizes!

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Impress CMS is a popular open source CMS that spawned not too long ago from the Xoops project. It has since gained increasing recognition and proven itself to be here to stay.
Today, they have released a new beta of what will be their upcoming 1.2 release. A list of the improvements and changes one can expect to find in this release are as follows:
User Improvements
* JQuery Redirect * Profile module with extended field + social network capabilities * TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor updates and additon of FCKeditor * Advanced search capabilities * Content manager now a full module
Administrator Improvements
* Updated Installer * Themeable Admininstration area * Blocks, Block Positions, User Ranks use new administration pages * Image manager with online-editing * Auto-Task (create Cron-Jobs with PHP in ImpressCMS) * Enhanced groups management capabilities and start page configurable for each group
Developer Improvements
* Removed dependency on Prototype * Extension of the IcmsPersistableOject Framework for creating and managing objects for the core and modules * Updates of all 3rd party libraries
Security Improvements
* Enhanced security provided with integrated Protector module * Admin configurable HTML Purifier * PHP OpenID updates * Smarty updates
For a full list of changes, you can refer to the changelog in the download, or <a href="http://wiki.impresscms.org/index.php?title=Change_Log">view it in the wiki</a>
You can learn more about the project or download it for yourself on the <a href="http://www.impresscms.org">ImpressCMS</a> website.

Impress CMS announces new beta of upcoming 1.2 release

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The Edentity team has been hard at work this summer preparing for an onslaught of new features and bug fixes for their flagship product, <a href="https://agilitycms.com">Agility CMS</a>.
With the August update, they are providing a whopping 31 new features and 189 bug fixes. Some of the primary improvements are:
Per page template editing which means you can quickly alter each individual page's display with a few clicks.
Improved workflow has also been added to this release which makes it much quicker and more efficient to approve/deny and publish content.
And most importantly, they have made a number of tweaks to improve Agility's already speedy interface.
More detail can be found on the <a href="https://www.agilitycms.com/landing/septemberrelease.aspx">blog post</a> on Agility's website.

Agility CMS update for August has been released

<a href="http://www.acquia.com">Acquia</a> has announced the immediate availability of their Acquia Hosting platform which provides optimized cloud-based hosting that is specifically tailored to Drupal.
From the Acquia website:
Single vendor for complete Drupal infrastructure support Acquia is your one-stop shop for maintenance and support for your entire Drupal infrastructure. We’ll keep your Drupal and LAMP stack secure, up-to-date and performing to meet your business requirements. Best of all, there’s only one number to call when you need support.
Highly available, high performance architecture Eliminate unexpected site downtime with our clustered, multi-tier cloud-based architecture. Our servers with load balancing and built-in redundancy ensure your Drupal site will meet your scalability and performance requirements.
Integrated with your development workflow Integrate your development and deployment processes to Acquia Hosting with hosted SVN repositories for code management, on-demand staging environments for testing and automated deployment to production instances.
You can learn more about this product at <a href="http://acquia.com/products-services/acquia-hosting">Acquia's product page</a>.

Acquia introduces new hosting capabilities with Acquia Hosting

There is a new Injader CMS release available on the <a href="http://www.injader.com/release-news/injader-24-released/">Injader website</a>. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Injader, Injader is a content management system written by <a href="http://www.bbarden.com/">Ben Barden</a>.
It was created in May 2005 and up until 2008, it was called Majestic.
This new version contains a number of new improvements such as the ability for theme authors to include individual settings for their themes, moderated content and improved caching.
A full list of changes and improvements can be found on the <a href="http://www.injader.com/release-news/injader-24-released/">announcement page.</a>

Injader CMS 2.4 released

In this interview, we'll speak with Scott Barnett, co-founder of the enterprise content management portal solution, <a href="http://www.bluenog.com">Bluenog</a>. We'll discuss how Bluenog came to be and where they plan to go in the future.
CC: Can you tell us a bit about your background?
SB: I've been in the Enterprise Software industry for 20 years – I started in the late 80's right out of school as a programmer for AT&amp;T Bell Labs.  I had the privilege of working with some really talented people who built some software that is actually still in use today.  Somehow, I caught the entrepreneurial bug while at AT&amp;T and I wound up leaving after 7 years to go to a startup. I haven't looked back since!  I gradually made the move from Product Management to Sales &amp; Marketing, as I found that I really enjoyed spending time with customers and prospects helping them solve their business and technical problems.  After the dot-com crash I felt the need for some stability and went back to a “big” company – BEA Systems.  BEA had a very unique corporate culture. It remained dynamic even when it grew fairly large, and extremely talented people worked there.  It was at BEA that I met my future Bluenog partners, Suresh Kuppusamy and Sastry Taruvai and I decided to get entrepreneurial once again with Bluenog.
CC: How did Bluenog come about?
SB: While we were at BEA, a lot of our customers were looking to augment their BEA software with open source technologies to keep costs under control.  We recognized an opportunity to start a company that helped customers blend both open source and commercial technologies.  We’ve continued to shape IT over the last four years and one of the key themes that remains is the fact that integration plays a major part of enterprise software acquisition and use, so focusing on making integration easier and support/maintenance more cost effective continues to be a driving force.
CC: Where did the name come from?
SB: We actually have an explanation of this on our website, because so many people ask!  Suresh, Sastry and I were working on names over our favorite beer (which happened to be Blue Moon at the time) and Suresh mentioned that a “nog” is a wooden peg that holds infrastructure together.  It also happens to be an alcoholic beverage – and both seemed to fit.  Then we started to think about what “type” of nog we would be, and after throwing around a bunch of ideas we settled on Bluenog.  It didn't hurt that the domain was available and a Google search brought up only 2 results!
CC: What is your vision for the CMS market?
SB: Our vision is much broader than just CMS.  We believe that content is key in any enterprise application – and these days, most enterprise applications are web-based.  So, CMS alone is not enough.  Access to different kinds of content is key. A good system must include legacy content, reporting content as well as structured and unstructured content.  This means having a dynamic presentation framework to work with, a robust reporting engine that can easily generate, store and categorize reports, collaboration tools (which by the way are also all about content) and a robust and scalable infrastructure framework providing security, persistence, load balancing and most importantly – integration to serve as the underpinnings of the entire system.
CC: What has been your biggest achievement to date?
SB: In the past 2 years we have raised $4M in Venture Funding, brought 2 new versions of ICE to the market and received market and industry validation from numerous press and analysts.  To this end, we have several publicly referenceable customers, we were listed in the InformationWeek Startup 50 and Red Herring 100 for 2009. We also have over 100 customers with a great track record of success.
CC: Your biggest regret?
SB: It's hard to call them regrets – more appropriate perhaps would be lessons learned.  We are learning how to build and grow a company from its infancy – and there are many steps along a company’s growth path. We've gone through several successfully so far, but there will be more challenges to navigate.  I would invite you to ask this question again once we've gotten through some of the next few stages!
CC: What sets Bluenog apart?
SB: Two main things – from a product perspective, it's all about integration – the pre-integration of individual components such as CMS, Portal, BI and Collaboration into a single product, and the ease-of-integration we provide with third party legacy systems – this saves companies significant time and money On the implementation of enterprise applications.  The second item is our delivery capabilities – Bluenog Solutions Group has significant experience putting together enterprise applications in a timely and efficient manner – we all know the software is important, but implementation is critical.  Having both under one roof (or, one throat to choke) allows us to leverage a predominantly open source software stack and provide seamless support for our customers' infrastructure. This is tremendously valuable to our customers.
CC: Who uses Bluenog?
SB: We have customers in many different industries, including Banking, Healthcare and Higher Education.  We recently announced a specific Higher Ed initiative to integrate more tightly with popular products and systems unique to Higher Ed, such as Sakai, Moodle, Banner and others.  We tend to be used by middle market companies (between $200M – $2B revenue) that have an IT staff, but no time to tinker and integrate open source by themselves, and no budget for the larger vendors.  These companies tend to want the enterprise functionality and framework capabilities that the larger vendors provide at a fraction of the price.  That Is Bluenog's sweet spot.
CC: Where do you see the company in 5 yrs time?
SB: That is really hard to say with the economy in such turbulence.  There does seem to be a movement towards consolidation in the open source space, so I would expect there will be fewer vendors five years from now, and we are working hard to make sure Bluenog is one of them.
CC: What can we expect for new and upcoming changes?
SB: You will see the continued evolution of our product – social computing in the enterprise has gained a lot of traction and we think we can provide some interesting capabilities in that space.  We are also working on enhancements around Workflow and Process.  At the end of the day, we are extremely customer-driven, so our current customers set a lot of the agenda in terms of next steps in product development.
CC: How has the current global financial condition impacted you?
SB: The same as I would assume it has impacted everybody – there is less IT budget to go around, companies are very selective with what they spend money on, and reuse of existing infrastructure is a mandate.  We are hopeful that our business model will be effective – we allow customers to use our product at no charge to evaluate functionality and build the customizations they need, and they don’t have to pay until they put it into production.  We see this more and more as companies are evaluating open source alternatives.  There are still companies that buy software the “old fashioned” way – by purchasing the software and consulting up front based on a capital budget allocation.  But in this market, we aree starting to see this less often.
CC: Thanks for taking the time to speak with us today, Scott. We wish you all the best.
SB: Thanks for letting me tell Bluenog’s story!  We are confident that the CMS market will continue to converge and we will see Search, Reporting, Portal and Collaboration become essential components in every customers’ content strategy.  Of course, we will get to claim that we were one of the first to get there with a truly integrated product that combines these elements and provides the foundation for building truly scalable and enterprise-quality web based systems.
CC: You can learn more about Bluenog from their website, <a href="http://www.bluenog.com">http://www.bluenog.com</a>

Interview with Bluenog co-founder Scott Barnett

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