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  • Wikileaks: The Canary In The Coal Mine For DLP

    December 02, 2010 07:49 PM | By Kurt Marko

    The supposedly confidential State Department memos ('cables' in the quaint, antiquated parlance of diplomats) oozing out in dribs and drabs this week prompts many questions, but for the IT professional none is more acute than "how could something like this even happen?" This marks the third time in the last six months that the Web's premier whistleblower outlet has release dsensitive government reports. Admittedly, most of these aren't highly classified (and none are "top secret), nor even all that surprising, but the fact that a Private First Class can surf an isolated DoD network designed for the secure transmission of classified information (The SIPRNet or Secret IP Router Network) trolling for juicy tidbits, much less walk off with gigabytes of data is shocking given the security technology available to the government, or any decent-sized enterprise for that matter.

  • The Trouble With Movable Type 5

    November 18, 2009 11:46 AM | By Serdar Yegulalp

    I've been using Movable Type as my blogging system of choice for several years now -- not just because it's open source but because it's a good program with great features. And yet the newest revision, version 5, feels like it falls far short of what could -- and needs -- to be done.

  • Melody: Movable Type, Reloaded

    June 23, 2009 11:57 AM | By Serdar Yegulalp

    It's always compelling news when an open source project of some renown is forked. It's twice as compelling when it's a fork of a project you use and rely on personally. I speak of Melody, a spinoff of the open-source branch of the blogging and publishing system Movable Type.

  • OpenText Acquisition Puzzles Analysts

    May 07, 2009 04:44 PM | By Andrew Conry Murray

    Analysts didn't have many good things to say about the recent announcement that ECM vendor OpenText will acquire Vignette, a maker of Web content management software, for $310 million.

  • Oracle's Grand Collaboration Ambitions

    May 07, 2009 11:23 AM | By Andrew Conry Murray

    Oracle hopes its Beehive collaboration platform will lead to sales of other Oracle products. And if it happens to shove Microsoft Exchange out the door, that's a bonus.

  • Ambitious Startup Wants To Manage All Your Unstructured Data

    March 02, 2009 03:40 PM | By Andrew Conry Murray

    Digital Reef swings for the data management fences by indexing and classifying all unstructured data in the enterprise. Top applications include e-discovery and storage management.

  • Content Management Conference Season Is Upon Us

    February 27, 2009 09:04 PM | By Peter Hagopian

    Late winter and spring seem like prime time for content management conferences. If you were so inclined, you could practically make back-to-back reservations so that you're out of the office from March through June. Here's a quick look at a few of the conferences and events coming up for the first half of 2009. Ladies and gentlemen, start your frequent flyer miles!

  • Asbru's Latest Web CMS Delivers Impressive Features, Value

    February 24, 2009 09:02 PM | By Peter Hagopian

    Asbru may not snare as many headlines as some other content management systems, but over the last decade it has built up an impressive client base, and has continuously made impressive enhancements to its CMS. The release earlier this month of Asbru Web Content Management v7.0 is no exception and I don't think it's hyperbole to say that it's their strongest release to date.

  • SilverStripe CMS 2.3.0 Builds On A Solid Foundation

    February 23, 2009 11:06 PM | By Peter Hagopian

    This week the SilverStripe team released version 2.3.0 of its open source content management system, which packs in literally hundreds of bug fixes and dozens of enhancements. While I wouldn't consider anything in the latest release to be particularly groundbreaking, the development team is doing a commendable job of adding onto an already solid foundation.

  • A Content Management Head To Head (To Head)

    February 19, 2009 09:23 PM | By Peter Hagopian

    There's no shortage of people willing to rhapsodize about why their favorite open source content management system is better than everyone else's. So it's sure to be interesting to watch three skilled, dedicated teams trying to prove the superiority of Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress, respectively, in a three-way showdown next month at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival.

  • Kentico's Latest CMS Focuses On Social Networking

    February 17, 2009 10:10 PM | By Peter Hagopian

    I've been keeping an eye on Kentico CMS for a while now, and I've been consistently impressed with its products. With each release, it has been adding substantial new features to an already solid foundation and Kentico CMS 4.0, released earlier this month, is no exception. This release focuses on a number of social networking tools, including support for blogs, wikis, and community-building and management features.
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