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With summer reaching its peak (or winter, for those in the southern hemisphere), open source CMS vendors are keeping their cool by continuing to tweak their products and engage with their communities.
In July, we heard news from Enonic, Liferay, Jahia and Magnolia about new websites, Slack channels and even
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The arrival of July marks the halfway mark of 2017, which makes now a good time to briefly recap the year so far for open source CMS.
So far this year we have seen open source CMS conferences come and go, greeted major releases from WordPress, Joomla and Drupal, and
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Another month, another batch of open source CMS vendors tweaking their products.
In May, we found ourselves well and truly in the thick of conference season, as we discussed no less than five separate open source focused events which have either come to pass, or are on the horizon.
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As we greet the month of May, it’s time to take another look at what the free and open source CMS space has in the pipeline.
In our April forecast, we welcomed the arrival of TYPO3 CMS 8, and anticipated the release of both Drupal 8.3 and Joomla 3.
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With April ahead of us, the ever-evolving open source CMS scene is preparing itself for yet more action.
Last month, Joomla and SilverStripe took steps towards releasing new versions, DNN Software unveiled some new Test Drive pages, while WordPress patched an array of security issues.
As for the
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Nuxeo, the open source content management provider known also for its digital asset management platform, announced today that it closed a $10 million funding round led by Kennet Partners.
In a statement, New York City-based Nuxeo said it will use the money to extend its sales capacity in North America,
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When Hadoop purveyor Hortonworks (HDP) filed a registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a $100 million secondary stock offering last month, jaws dropped.
Though the move wasn’t altogether unexpected, the timing and the urgency surrounding it seemed suspicious. It spooked Wall Street and prompted a sell-off
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A consortium of open source CMS vendors are making progress in their efforts to create more ethical web experience management.
Earlier this year, Jahia, together with other vendors, launched initiatives to address the rapid growth of digital experience and the data it generates.
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Stories are legion of the shortage of data scientists, so you can’t blame me for being more than a little surprised when I found out that these wise men and women sometimes get put on hold when they want to run sophisticated queries.
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The Drupal open source web content management community is whooping it up this week like they haven’t in almost five years.
Drupal released the long-awaited Drupal 8.0 platform yesterday, setting off a series of bashes and social celebrations — 200 parties around the world according to Drupal creator Dries Buytaert.
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Open-source software no longer plays the role of the black sheep in the enterprise. A recent survey conducted by BlackDuck found that 78 percent of the 1300 respondents said their companies run part or all of their operations on open-source software, and 66 percent said their companies create software for
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Two years ago we asked what turned out to be an interesting question: Which is better, open source or proprietary software?
It sparked a heated debate. At that point, Open Source Software (OSS) wasn’t as widely received in the enterprise as it is today and many thought that its
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Good things come from connecting the dots.
That’s what Elastic’s products help companies do. Based on open source projects Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK), Elastic’s commercial products are leveraged by an impressive list of organizations to do some equally impressive things.
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Last month security CrowdStrike published the kind of blog post that no IT security manager wants to read.
It found a critical virtual machine escape vulnerability that the company named VENOM, which affected a number of open-source hypervisors, such as QEMU, Xen, KVM, VirtualBox and many derivatives of these products.
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