eZ Systems and eZ Partner Mitsue-Links Co., Ltd. will join forces to found eZ Systems Japan this November in Shinjyuku-ku, Tokyo. The primary purpose of this new office is to promote eZ Systems’ Open Source Content Management System (CMS) eZ Publish in Japan.

"eZ is not new to the Japanese market, as we have been building a partner network and working with significant customers in Japan for the last two years. We are now experiencing accelerated growth in the market and, naturally, the next step is to get direct representation in the market to support further growth. We are thus very excited about this new office," explains eZ CEO Aleksander Farstad.

eZ Systems Japan will focus on the following:

• Being the base for eZ Publish marketing activities in Japan
• Providing development and support specialized for the Japanese market
• Providing expert consulting services
• Delivering training to eZ Partners in Japan

The grand opening of eZ Systems Japan will take place on November 5, 2008.

Bitrix Site Manager may seem unassuming, but underneath this CMS lays a fantastic algorithm that drives this CMS' performance over almost all other existing CMS applications out there. It's most definitely the most cost effective Content Management system today.

Introduction:

Having worked extensively with open source CMS applications like Joomla, Mambo and Drupal, we've come to realize one universal fact. Microsoft does not like them. Ergo - Internet Explorer does not like them. Which eventually means that a majority of browser users find it difficult to work with user controlled content over the web, if the CMS installed happens to be a Joomla or a Drupal.

So for any online business, what is the true value of dollars spent on a CMS? Is a Free CMS really FREE? Should you ‘just go for whatever is available free or ‘Buy what makes sense'?

As owners of online businesses turn to using CMS applications for their needs, Bitrix's Revolutionary Site Manager revokes the age old theory that only content based businesses need to invest in a CMS. Now anyone can enhance the efficiency and usability of your website. And it's as simple as a 1, 2 and 3.

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The 2008 Winter CMS Expo is on Thursday, December 4th and Friday, December 5th. Pre-Conference Sessions are on Wednesday, December 3rd. Whether you're just starting out or you're at the leading edge, CMS Expo has a stellar line-up of Joomla experts coming to the Mile-High City just for you: Samantha Bovat, Steve Burge, Tom Canavan, Mike Carson, Victor Drover, Tom Elliott, Jen McKibben, Andrew Neale, Barrie North, Steve Pignataro, Azrul Rahim, Chris Rault and Bill Tomczak. You just won't find a better place for a meeting of the minds than at CMS Expo.

You're invited to Denver's historic Brown Palace Hotel on December 4th and 5th for the Winter CMS Expo. In the spotlight at the CMS Expo will be Joomla, one of the fastest-growing Open Source CMS solutions around. With millions of installations completed in less than three years since its launch onto the OS scene, Joomla continues to dominate in most arenas, including small- to mid-sized business, non-profits, education and even major municipal and government sectors.

Visit http://www.cmsassociation.com/1.html for more information.

The 2008 Open Source CMS Award launched today, inviting people to visit www.PacktPub.com and submit nominations for their favorite Open Source Content Management Systems. Now in its third year, the Award has helped to support a variety of Content Management Systems gain recognition in a crowded and high quality marketplace.

In 2007, Drupal ousted Joomla! as the overall winner of the Award, in what was another very close contest. With the introduction of four new categories in 2007, the Award succeeded in expanding the opportunities for a wider range of Open Source Content Management Systems to benefit. MODx won the inaugural Most Promising Open Source CMS Award, confirming its position as one of the most respected new CMS’s available. "Winning the award was a tremendous honor for MODx" said Ryan Thrash, co-founder of MODx. "For the team, it validates the past two years of hard work" he concluded.

A new category for 2008 is the Open Source CMS MVP Award, which will recognize the contributions to projects made by individuals that often go unnoticed. According to Damian Carvill, marketing manager at Packt, the company that runs the Award, this will prove to be a significant award. "For the large majority of Open Source projects, it is the tireless work from enthusiastic individuals that enable its growth and adoption, and these are the people that Packt feels is necessary to identify" Carvill said.

Packt has opened up nominations for people to submit their favorite Content Management System at www.PacktPub.com/Award. The top five in each category will go through to final, which begins at the start of September. For more information, please visit Packt’s website www.PacktPub.com/Award.

Drupal 6.3 was released on 9 July 2008.  Among other things, this release fixes the core issue that was affecting the Views 2.0 module.

Read more about this release at Drupal 6.3 and 5.8 released, fixing security issues

The new version of Kentico CMS enables rapid development of on-line stores. It comes with new E-commerce starter site and step-by-step guide for ASP.NET developers.

The revamped E-commerce module now supports:

• Product and inventory management
• Shopping cart
• Customizable checkout process
• PayPal, Authorize.NET and custom payment gateways
• Product options and configuration (e.g. t-shirt sizes and colors)
• Wish list
• Configurable taxes, shipping and discounts
• Multiple currencies
• Easy integration into web site through built-in web parts
• Sales reports

 ... and other great features.

Download a free trial at http://www.kentico.com/ecommerce.aspx 

Learning Drupal 6 Module Development is a new book from Packt, which acts
as a practical tutorial for creating Drupal 6 modules with PHP. Written by Matt
Butcher, this book will help users to walk through the development of complete
Drupal 6 Modules.

Drupal is a free and open-source modular web
application framework and content management system (CMS) written in PHP. It
can run in many environments, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD.
It's a modular system, with an elegant hook-based architecture, and great code.
These are a few of the perks that make Drupal a choice platform for developers
who want the power of an established CMS, but the freedom to make it work for
them. From social networking to AJAX to e-commerce, the hundreds of existing
modules attest to Drupal's flexibility.