I have to admit that when someone submits a story and I trust them...I sometimes don't read the whole article before I publish it.  So until I read Dean Barker's Gadgetopia, I didn't realize his company, Blend Interactive, was featured in eZ's SHARE! magazine.  The irony is that if I had read an article posted at my own site by one of eZ System's own people...Dean's post wouldn't have been new news to me.  Sigh, I have been just too busy...

You may not have heard of Blend Interactive, but they do sport a decent portfolio of sites they have developed and designed.  Probably the most likely well known work from the company is the home site for the instant messaging client, Pidgin.  The SHARE! magazine features Blend Interactive, in part, because it is one of the most enthusiastic users of the eZ Publish CMS in the United States.  eZ Publish's roots is in Norway and the software is more popular in Europe.  But, as the eZ article implies, there is a push to generate more users in the United States.

The April issue of the eZ Ecosystem Newsletter is out. OneZero has been so kind designing this issue and give input in how to utilize eZ Publish and design. You can also read more about...

• eZ Publish and the focus in USA
• Sun + MySQL
• Community talk with Alain Sahli
• Site of the month
• 2008 Open Nordic Conference

Download the magazine HERE

Art of Defence GmbH and xrow GmbH have performed a security analysis of eZ Publish an eZ Components during CeBIT.

In a first analysis with the source code verification suite hypersource both products did not show any security vulnerability at source code level. Art of Defense mentioned that eZ Publish has lesser security entry points as the majority of other software.

Read the whole story and download the analysis

SHARE! Magazine is a monthly newsletter about the eZ Ecosystem. It features interviews, pictures, articles, reviews and content related to Open Source software, business and development.

In this issue, you can read more about:

eZ Systems goes to Chicago
We have interviewed Graham Tillotson who is the new Managing Director of eZ Systems North America

eZ Business?
In the world of Open Source software, leading companies have evolved new business strategies in an attempt to do something that, until recently, seemed impossible - make money while giving away their products

Site of the month
CarandDriver.com is the winner

2008 Open Nordic Conference
eZ Conference is new and improved. Sign up NOW and get a 25% discount

Contributing
Bruce Morrison on the star rating extension

Download the magazine via the article below:

http://ez.no/company/news/share_magazine_for_february_is_out

The creator of eZ Publish invites you to the 6th annual eZ Conference and it will be run together with the Open Nordic Conference and the Open Nordic Mobile event. The date is set to June 19 – 20 and this is without doubt the biggest event ever held in Europe that has a primary focus on Open Source Software. All three conferences are running at the same place at the same time, but with three different areas of focus.

US Deputy Assis­tant Secretary of the Navy for Acquisition Management DASN needed a technical web solution to accommodate consolidation of three legacy web sites that comprised over 10 years of critical policy information. eZ Publish from eZ Systems became the solution.

Read the whole story HERE

eZ Systems, the creator of eZ Publish, is proud to release SHARE! Magazine, a monthly community newsletter based on stories and interviews with community members, partners and contributors to the eZ Ecosystem. The magazine comes in PDF format and is available via eZ Systems` webpages free of charge.

Feel free to download the magazine here: http://ez.no/company/news

After a process of careful evaluation, eZ Publish from eZ Systems was selected to help the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Controller’s Office meet its primary objectives - to provide easy-to–find, relevant information for the MIT user community, and to offer a secure, efficient, user-friendly tool for content maintainers to control the website’s contents and design.

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PerformanceCars has solidly established itself as a trusted, premium automotive dealer group in Ontario’s Niagara Region. Powered by eZ Publish, the PerformanceCars website is a core component of its marketing strategy, with easily updated interactive media content and automatically updated car inventory pages. As a result, it has become an informative and exciting destination for existing and prospective car owners.

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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.

Read the full story HERE