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Zopening Up

17-Jan-2006 [Permalink]

As CMS Report readers know, the open-souce Zope content management platform has traditionally been highly customizable but curiously self-contained. With the new Zope 3 effort, the platform is beginning to open up a bit. Most importantly, Zope has announced that it is switching out its own ZServer webserver with a more broadly-supported webserver, Twisted.Web, built on the "Twisted" python framework from Twisted Matrix Laboratories. Some might still prefer Apache, but Twisted is known for its scalability and security, so it's a definite improvement over ZServer. Twisted, by the way, is a young community worth watching. Meanwhile, Seth Gottlieb details how he managed to get a large, Zope-based CMS installation to run off an Oracle database, in lieu of the embedded Zope Object DB.

Submitted by Tony Byrne, Analyst

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Where we are speaking this year

17-Jan-2006 [Permalink]

See CMS Watch analysts in person at these upcoming events.

Submitted by Tony Byrne, Analyst

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SharePoint development team blog

16-Jan-2006 [Permalink]

Microsoft was late to both the Web CMS and Portal marketplaces, and did not get either right at first, but now Redmond seems to be moving ahead rapidly. Big changes are planned this year, as previously reported (here, here, and here), and now the SharePoint engineering team has created its own public blog. Compared to other competing vendors, large and small, that are planning big changes for 2006 (e.g. major upgrades at IBM, Open Text, Synkron), Microsoft has embraced what some call "naked conversations." Some final advice: If you're a customer and unclear about the future of the products (WSS, SPS, and CMS), contact your Microsoft account team about release dates and beta availability. Find out more in the upcoming Enterprise Portals Report.

Submitted by Janus Boye, Contributing Analyst

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Not a panacea for e-discovery

14-Jan-2006 [Permalink]

When you have to conduct a formal discovery (for legal or regulatory reasons, e.g. a FOIA request in government) and you don't have a document and records management system, you're forced into an expensive, hunt-and-peck process that may not drum up all the relevant files. Yet, twice in the past month I've heard from a records manager, to paraphrase: "Now that we've put all our documents in a proper electronic repository, we have the opposite problem -- full-text search results yield too many hits and we still need lawyers to review the resultsets." Clearly, better metadata would help here. But in any case, content management technology is surely just the first step -- and not the last -- to better discovery. Consult our Records Management Report for more details.

Submitted by Tony Byrne, Analyst

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