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Open source: What does it mean in 2010?
January 10th, 2010 by Janus Boye
7 Comments| bcsositpf, open, open source, ukgovOSS
Open source has been hailed as the obvious solution for saving money, being flexible, more transparent and avoiding project failures. After attending a recent open source event in London, I came away confused and it made me think about what open source actually means here in 2010. Source code access hardly seems either relevant or …
Open source doesn’t always represent best value
January 4th, 2010 by Janus Boye
13 Comments| bcsositpf, microsoft, open source, plone, umbraco
Despite much hype we did not see a breakthrough for open source CMS last year. When I launched the discussion last year, we received some great comments, e.g. on intellectual property and warranty, suggesting that in some cases open source is not the right decision.
In the past decade, several governments have issued statements with strong …
A breakthrough for open source CMS?
August 27th, 2009 by Janus Boye
6 Comments| cms, lbi, open source, sapient, umbraco
Open source content management systems have made major progress in recent years. The systems have matured usual weaknesses such as usability, integration, lacking features and weak documentation has been addressed. In addition many large and complex organisations have adopted open source CMS and are now running busy sites on the platforms.
Illustration credit: Siteworx
For buyers, a …
eXo Portal and JBoss Portal join forces
June 10th, 2009 by Janus Boye
3 Comments| consolidation, exo, jboss, open source, portal
Today European open source portal vendor eXo announced that their main product, eXo Portal will be merged into the JBoss community. A new release of JBoss Portal, based on the joint code base will be available towards the end of 2009.
Benjamin Mestrallet, CEO of eXo Platform (the French company behind eXo Portal) makes an interesting …
Typo3: A solid German car?
June 9th, 2009 by Janus Boye
19 Comments| open source, typo3
The open source community is currently driving in the passing lane on the Autobahn, but the popular open source content management system Typo3 has slowed down. The recent major release, version 4, dates back to April 2006, the Danish project founder Kasper SkÃ¥rhøj has virtually left the project and the most recent news on typo3.com …
HyperContent: A dead open source CMS?
June 1st, 2009 by Janus Boye
2 Comments| cms, dynamicweb, jasig, mambo, microsoft cms, open source, wcm
Do you know if your CMS is dead or alive? Whether it has a bright or a bleak future? When higher education software consortium Jasig announced that they would discontinue their support for HyperContent in December 2008, it was a timely reminder that systems do die. Who knows whether other and more popular systems are …
eZ Systems won Web Idol at Philadelphia 2009
May 12th, 2009 by Janus Boye
No Comments| eZ, open source, web idol
Congrats to Norwegian open-source vendor eZ Systems, on beating the competition and winning the Web Idol competition at the J. Boye Conference in Philadelphia last week. Presented by co-founder and CTO BÃ¥rd Farstad, the demo looked fairly similar to eZ’s previous wins in 2006 and 2007 at our European conference, but as always it was not the judges or yours …
Is Drupal the best CMS for publishers?
May 3rd, 2009 by Peter Sejersen
1 Comment| content here, drupal, open source, seth gottlieb
The American open source expert, Seth Gottlieb from Content Here, has just published a new vendor neutral evaluation report titled Drupal for Publishers. If you are considering Drupal, the popular open source CMS, in your organisation, this 25-page report is indeed worth your time – even if you do not consider yourself a publisher. While …
Will Umbraco rule the CMS world?
March 3rd, 2009 by Peter Sejersen
9 Comments| .net, cms, dynamicweb, microsoft, open source, umbraco
Over the last couple of years the .NET-based open source CMS, Umbraco, has grown significantly. I recently attended a seminar, where founder Niels Hartvig announced that the system has been used in more than 61,000 active installations. In comparison, the Danish CMS-vendor Dynamicweb has around 4,500 installations (according to co-founder Nicolai Pedersen). Since we first …
Plone co-founder leaves Google
February 5th, 2009 by Janus Boye
No Comments| google, open source, plone
The co-founder of the popular open source CMS Plone, Alexander Limi, yesterday announced on his blog that he has left Google. To quote:
I’ll be surprised if they manage to hold on to their top talent in the User Experience division for more than a year or two. That part of the organization is slowly rotting …
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