To compete in a tough market, Dolly Dimple’s wanted to broaden its sales reach through a web-based e-commerce portal. Dolly Dimple’s has a call center in Oslo with approximately 60 employees and the goal was to decrease the number of staff in the call center by automating the order and payment process through the web portal.

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eZ Systems, the world’s leading Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) company, today announced the immediate availability of eZ Publish 4.0, the latest version of its award-winning, enterprise-grade flagship ECM product. eZ Publish 4.0 features complete PHP 5-compatability, thereby empowering users with PHP 5’s entire range of functionality while maintaining a smooth upgrade path for existing eZ Publish Web sites.

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Is there anyone else disappointed that Linux.com and NewsForge.com now mirror each other in content?  In the past I've called this the CMS déjà vu phenomenon.  I'm not sure what to think about it.  No wait, I do know what I think about the two sites basically merging into one...I don't like it.  I really do miss the diversity in stories the two separate sites once offered.


Am I am the only not liking the change?  Yea, yea, I know...Linux.com and NewsForge.com have every right to do what they do.  That's not my point...this time it's about me...

John Newton, Alfresco co-founder, is a man I have never met.  Regardless of this important fact, I feel like I have gotten to know a small part of him through his blog.  While Newton's blog may focus on Alfresco, his posts offers a wide range of insights on subjects such as commercial open source, content management,  enterprise software,  business processes, and information technology.  So if you have any idea of who I am through my own writings  it should be no surprise to you that I enjoy reading and talking about some of his articles on my own site.

During the past few months, Newton has been doing what many good bloggers are doing these days...writing guest blogs for professional online publications such as his blog on ZDNet.  While I'm glad to see his thoughts reach a broader audience, something regarding his ZDNet posts have been missing for me.  Don't get me wrong, the articles on ZDNet are still worth reading but those articles don't seem to have the same "thinking out loud" content I'm accustomed to through his personal blog.  Newton finally offered an explanation of why his blogging is different on ZDNet.

This is a fantastic article found on ZDNet UK not only about open source content management systems but the issues that traditional publishers are now facing in either competing or adopting with today's Web CMS.  The article is written by Mike Barrett and is titled, "CMS evolution, publishing revolution?".  The author writes:

Mainstream content management systems are only now starting to provide similar flexibility for publishers. Open source products such as Drupal and Joomla now offer a viable way for smaller businesses to get on line effectively. Like the blogging platforms [Wordpress and Blogger] they introduce the opportunity to create multiple sites, cost effectively, by re-using functionality, content and platforms. But how many publishers are actually taking advantage of this? Often, even where publishers have multiple sites, many are still designed and built in isolation from their stablemates as businesses fail to understand the benefits of one platform.

Why don't the traditional media just migrate over to open source CMS?  Don't forget that when many of the publishers first put their CMS online several years ago...propriety was still king.

"iJoomla Magazine is an excellent extension that has vastly improved the CMS experience for publishers using Joomla. The component has undergone a great deal of development since its first releases, and has been given a big thumbs-up by critics as well us developers and publishers. PHP Magazine Network contacted Merav Knafo, iJoomla's founder, for an  interview about the iJoomla experience."

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Kshipra Singh of Packt Publishing sent me an e-mail the other day.  Packt Publishing focuses on the publication of computer and information technology books intended to be read by developers, administrators, and newbies.  Mr. Singh wanted to let me know that they just recently published a new book for the Alfresco CMS.  The book is titled, Alfresco Enterprise Content Management Implementation, and is written by Munwar Sharrif.

Packt Publishing has offered me "a sample chapter from this book, to be published" here at CMS Report .  To make things easy we decided just to offer the link onsite to the sample chapter stored directly on Packt Publishing's servers.  You can download the the sample chapter in PDF format by clicking here.  The sample chapter being provided is Chapter 5, "Implementing Document Management".