Nashua, New Hampshire, August 31, 2011 – Kentico Software (http://www.kentico.com), the Web content management system vendor and E-Commerce solution vendor, announced a strategic partnership with Avalara (www.avalara.com), a leading provider of fully automated, up-to-date sales and use tax compliance solutions.
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Capgemini enters into an alliance with six Open Source vendors
Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, today announced that one of its Dutch subsidiaries, Capgemini Nederland B.V. (“Capgemini”), has entered into an open alliance with six Open Source vendors in the Netherlands. The unique alliance, comprising six best-of-breed vendors, is aimed at providing a single point of contact for Capgemini’s customers who are using Open Source.
SilverStripe and Mollom partner in the war against spam
Lots of news this week regarding the open source SilverStripe CMS. It is extremely unusual for CMS Report to post something on SilverStripe as well as something on comment spam twice in one week. Yet, my two favorite companies, Silverstripe Ltd and Mollom, are going to have me do just that because of today's announcement that they've partnered together to help SilverStripe site owners block comment spam on their sites.
SilverStripe and Mollom worked together on improving the code in the official vendor-supported Mollom module which is compatible with SilverStripe 2.3.1 and greater. Dries Buytaert, a Mollom co-founder, wrote about this new partnership to improve the module's code.
We [Mollom] have been working with Sigurd Magnusson and others at SilverStripe Limited to meet technical and commercial requirements of being a partner, and have been pleased at how easy this has been. SilverStripe's CMS also looks to have a bright future: while young, it now has over 150,000 downloads to date, a great user interface and underlying architecture, and last year won Packtpub's most promising open source CMS award. Therefore, our partnership with SilverStripe certainly meets our goals, and we're happy to have them on board to help the Mollom ecosystem grow.
The folks over at SilverStripe appear pleased with how well Mollom blocks spam. Sigurd Magnusson writes about SilverStripe's own experience with Mollom.
Mollom has proven to be very effective on SilverStripe.com and SilverStripe.org. Together, those two sites have had more than 400,000 spam attempts in the past 6 weeks. Only about one in 10,000 spam appear to be getting through; we'd be overwhelmed with spam otherwise! The effectiveness of Mollom is largely due to Benjamin Schrauwen, a co-founder of Mollom who is responsible for its machine-learning capability. This capability means that as more people use (and abuse!) Mollom, the more it learns good from bad, and its ability to block inappropriate material improves.
Below the fold, you'll also find a video demonstrating how Mollom can be used to protect SilverStripe blogs, forums, and forms against spam.
The Why and How of CMS Vendor Partnerships
Gadgetopia: "So, this vendor contacted me for a demo to see if we would sign-on as a partner. We went though a demo and the system was undeniably impressive. However, we we started taking about the partner program…there really wasn’t much there. While their system would have been fun to develop with, there didn’t seem to be much advantage to becoming a partner.
In the end, as a businessman (not a CMS fanboy, which I undeniably am), there is really just one reason for choosing to partner with a particular CMS: will it make us more money?"
