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CMS Report's Top Ten Stories of 2009

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By Bryan - Posted on 28 December 2009

The level of interest in content management systems astounds me. Each year, I continue to see at CMS Report an increase of visitors looking for information on content management. Our stories tend to focus on open source CMS more than proprietary applications and evidently that's the subject matter that our readers want to read.

Below are the top ten stories of 2009 that were posted here at CMSReport.com. As you can see, stories involving Drupal, WordPress, Joomla!, Alfresco, and Nuxeo took center stage. These stories might not have been the ten I would have personally picked for this list, but I'll respect the numbers behind their ranking.

  1. Mollom: A solution for comment spam
  2. 2009 Best Open Source PHP CMS: Drupal wins, Wordpress and Joomla! not far behind
  3. Serving a home for my Drupal site
  4. WordPress leads the Packt as 2009 Overall Best Open Source CMS
  5. Allen Ellis: Why the Packt CMS Competition is Broken, and How to Fix It
  6. Google PageRank
  7. Alfresco Module Obtains U.S. DoD 5015.02 Records Management Certification
  8. Using Wordpress city saves $19,000
  9. Cheryl McKinnon, Nuxeo, and Open Source
  10. Drupal Gardens preview video by Acquia

The interest in Nuxeo took me by surprise and I'll be adding the CMS to my top 30 CMS Focus page as time allows. As always, our thanks to all those who continue to return to this site to read the stories, join in on the conversation, and even submit articles. As I've said before, I'm not sure we would be doing this if it wasn't for the interest shown by others visiting the site.

eZ Publish 4.2 noted for Usability, Scalability and Enterprise Search

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By Bryan - Posted on 02 October 2009

This week, eZ Systems announce the immediate release of eZ Publish 4.2, the new version of its Open Source Content Management System. The new release brings important improvements to the heart of eZ solutions, the eZ Publish engine, as well as major advances and new features for eZ Flow and eZ Find. A new extension, eZSI, makes its debut in the 4.2 package providing full support for the Edge Side Include standard to eZ Publish.

Bård Farstad, CTO and Founder of eZ Publish, described the motivation underlying the new release: "Our team focused on Usability for both end-users and editors, as well as Scalability and Performance for customers using eZ Publish in extremely high-traffic installations ". Farstad emphasized that "in those two focus areas, eZ Find (the enterprise-grade search plugin for eZ Publish) has become a key element for achieving the best results".

The 4.2 release was developed by eZ Systems with contributions from eZ Publish partners and trusted community members, and is immediately available as certified software, which benefits from eZ System's Premium support and maintenance services, including the unlimited bugfix guarantee.

eZ Systems scales up product development investments

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By thomas - Posted on 27 March 2009

eZ follows the release of eZ Publish 4.1 with an aggressive hiring plan for eZ Labs, the firm's core development team, with the aim of accelerating eZ Publish development.

"We are looking for talented software engineers, testers and documentation editors in Leuven (Belgium), Skien (Norway) or possibly in other eZ offices" says Paul Borgermans, head of eZ Labs.

Naming Roland Benedetti, the former Managing Director for eZ Western Europe, as VP Product Management is an important step for the eZ Ecosystem, helping to clearly delineate Project Management from Engineering.

"This new organization is the result of a long internal project", says eZ CTO, Bård Farstad, adding, "We were very much focused on making eZ a profitable company in 2008 but wished we'd been able to invest more in development. eZ Find 2.0 and eZ Publish 4.1 were great accomplishments, but 2009 will be even better. Splitting Product Management and Engineering will improve our communication with our community, our customers, and our markets to deliver a professional road map, as well as optimize the use of our core resources".