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The Drupal Release Model and Why it Needs to be Revamped

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Drupal today released a total of four versions of the popular open source CMS. Yes, I said four. Drupal 6.23, 6.24, 7.11 and 7.12 releases were put on the servers today. On the release announcement, they are stating that they want to release version that include only security updates and versions that include security + bug [...]

Interview with Vern Imrich, CTO of Percussion

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For this month’s newsletter, we spoke with Vern Imrich, CTO of Percussion to get his thoughts on the growth of the CMS market and more. Read on for some valuable insights. CC:  Please tell us a bit about yourself and your background leading up to working with Percussion. VI:  My formal training and degrees are [...]

Liferay Introduces Liferay Sync with Powerful Document-Sharing Abilities

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 Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class open source portal, announced today the availability of Liferay Sync, a powerful document-sharing add-on to the Community Edition (CE) of Liferay Portal 6.1. Liferay Sync transforms the Liferay platform into a central, easy-to-use document sharing service. With Liferay Sync, users now have the ability to access documents [...]

SDL acquires Alterian

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SDL plc (LSE: SDL; “SDL”), a leading provider of Global Information Management (GIM) solutions, today announces that it has completed the acquisition of Alterian plc (“Alterian”). SDL has acquired Alterian, a leader in marketing analytics, social media monitoring and campaign management, for a net cash consideration of £69.7 million. The SDL Board believes the addition [...]

Concrete5 Gets a Facelift With Twitter Bootstrap

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concrete5 today announced that it has redesigned the company’s admin dashboard to leverage Twitter Bootstrap. An early pioneer of in-context editing, concrete5 gained popularity due to its ease of use for managing the content of websites. With this in mind, the company has leveraged the Twitter Bootstrap toolkit to offer a completely redesigned, centralized dashboard [...]

ExpressionEngine 2.4.0 Released

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ExpressionEngine 2.4.0 is now available for download.  This release provides a broad array of changes, including stability and security improvements, a faster control panel, the addition of popular feature requests and new libraries and hooks for third party developers. This release offers improved stability and performance with over 80 bug fixes, including an obscure but theoretically [...]

Review – Ademero Content Central Document Management Software

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I review a lot of Web Content Management Systems but I’ve never done a review of a Document Management System (something that I’ve been meaning to do for some time) until today. Ademero is one such vendor and produces a browser based document management platform called Content Central. Today, I’m going to take you on [...]

New Joomla! 2.5 Released; Open Source Content Management System Now More Scalable Than Ever

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Joomla, one of the world’s most popular open source content management systems (CMS) used for everything from websites to blogs to Intranets, today announced the immediate availability of Joomla 2.5. Along with new features such as advanced search and automatic notification of Joomla core and extension updates, the Joomla CMS for the first time includes [...]

Smartlogic release Semaphore 3.3, a new version of their pioneering content intelligence platform

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Smartlogic has released the latest version of its pioneering Content Intelligence Platform, Semaphore, offering more features to enhance enterprise search, drive business workflow and organize enterprise metadata, as well as providing capability for much closer integration with SharePoint 2010, the widely used corporate information management system from Microsoft. The new features available with Semaphore 3.3 [...]

In Depth Analysis of Open Source CMS Security

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Recently, I was contacted by the author of an incredibly detailed analysis of the security of a number of popular Open Source content management systems. As part of this breakdown, the analysis goes into detail about which systems have had the most vulnerabilities and the severity of them, coming up with a number of rather [...]

EndPlay Expands Internationally via Strategic Partnership With The Banyan Solutions Consulting Group

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 EndPlay, Inc., a leading SaaS provider of Web Content Management (WCM) solutions, announced today a partnership with The Banyan Solutions Consulting Group (TBSCG), marking EndPlay’s international expansion into the European, Middle Eastern and African (EMEA) market. TBSCG builds and maintains online-centric solutions for some of the largest brands in the UK, France, Belgium, Poland and [...]

Kentico CMS Announces the 2012 Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Awards

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Kentico Software (http://www.kentico.com), the Web content management system vendor, announced the 2012 Kentico Most Valuable Professional Awards. The Kentico MVP Award is a one year industry recognition given to individuals based on their community participation and evangelistic activities in the CMS and .NET communities. The Kentico MVP awards for 2012 were presented to: • Brian [...]