Sunday, February 5th, 2012 2:48 pm

Oracle buys FatWire

Redwood Shores (ip-192.com): Oracle Corporation has entered into an agreement to acquire FatWire, a privately held company selling web content management system (CMS) software. Established in 1996 by Mark Fasciano, Ari Kahn and John Murcott, FatWire launched Content Server 6.0 WCM in 2004 after acquiring Open Market's Enterprise web content management assets one year earlier. [...]

Joomla 1.6: Better user management

Washington, DC (ip-192.com): Content management system Joomla has released version 1.6. Significant new features include the ability to use template styles and overrides to modify the appearance of pages, nested categories, and a color-coded CSS and HTML editor. A new abstraction layer enables the open source CSS to run on different backend databases. Permissions can [...]

Drupal: Version 7 of CMS released

Atlanta (ip-192.com): After three years of development, Drupal 7 has been released. The open source content management system (CMS) features a new easier-to-use and more intuitive administrative interface that allows user to update modules and themes directly from within the console. A new database abstraction layer offers substantially enhanced performance and scalability options. The blogging [...]

SilverStripe: Microsoft certifies open source CMS

New Zealand (ip-192.com): The first open source application to obtain official Microsoft certification is called SilverStripe. The New Zealand based web development company has achieved "Certification for Windows Server 2008 R2" for SilverStripe 2.4.0. The company says that the achievement was an important milestone since the majority of their customers manage predominantly Windows Server IT [...]