Web CMS is Booming with Double Digit Growth

While the majority of the country’s companies are struggling to keep their doors cracked open or regretfully shutting them all together, a handful of Web Content Management vendors are riding a wave of significant growth.

Among the lucky few is Ingeniux, a WCM vendor that recently reported its biggest first quarter in the company’s history, representing a 65 percent growth in revenues compared to Q1, 2008.

The question, of course, is why? What is WCM doing right? Jim Edmunds, CEO of Ingeniux puts it like this: “Companies and organizations are investing in the Web to gain efficiencies and cost savings."

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DrupalCon DC By the Numbers: Community, Profit, and Sustainability

The number crunching from DrupalCon DC is done, and we wanted to share the results.

• 1,422 people came to DrupalCon DC.
• 130 people presented 109 sessions.
• That doesn’t include the people who led the 100 birds of a feather sessions that we know about (and we know we don’t know about all of the ones that took place).
• 9 people helped record the 109 sessions, and they’re all online now.
• 75+ people volunteered their early mornings, weekends, and conference time to register people at DrupalCon, stuff those green bags we all got, monitor IRC and twitter to make sure questions were answered and issues were dealt with, point people to where they wanted to go, and generally make sure DrupalCon DC rocked. Thank you : )
• 55 shops, companies, and organizations sponsored DrupalCon.
• 91 individuals sponsored DrupalCon as well.

• 100s of blog posts were written and 10,000s (and maybe more) of messages were tweeted that helped us all learn from each other and let people follow along from home.

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Joomla 1.5 Coming of Age and Looking Forward

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the release of Joomla 1.5, the first major release of the popular content management system.

In January 2008, the first stable release was downloaded almost 200,000 times. Since then, the total number has exploded to over 8 million downloads. Joomla is seeing the highest rate of adoption ever.

That same month, the Joomla Extensions Directory contained 2,600 extensions written for Joomla 1.0.x, a small percentage of which worked with Joomla 1.5. Today, that number is approaching 5,000 and most are Joomla 1.5 native. The JED is a a powerful barometer of the commitment of the community to the Joomla Project and platform.

And that community continues to grow exponentially. The Joomla Discussion Forums contain over 1.5 million posts from almost 250,000 users. The spirit of open source, collaboration, and users helping users has never been stronger.

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DrupalCon in DC

DrupalCon is the official Drupal unconference that attracts the most talented open source developers and innovative web shops in the world and brings them together to share knowledge, make decisions on the future of Drupal, and get to know each other in person.

It's also the premiere opportunity for Drupal users to learn what they can do with Drupal, find partners for future projects, and meet the people behind the code.

In this agenda you can see what the conference will focus on, and as you can see it's designed for both developers and Drupal users. The first three days of the conference will be about learning, while the last day will be about doing - that's when we'll all work together to push code and documentation forward.

DrupalCon is a volunteer run, nonprofit conference. Thanks to everyone who's helped and to our fantastic sponsors, who are letting us keep ticket prices low by paying for more than half of this event!

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Drupal Revealed as 2008 Open Source CMS Award Winner

Released as an Open Source project by founder Dries Buytaert in 2001, Drupal has grown substantially and has been downloaded almost 1.5 million times in the last 12 months. It is currently being applied by companies such as Warner Brothers Music, MTV UK, and the New York Observer amongst others.

"These awards are a testament to the valuable contributions from dedicated Drupal community members around the globe" said Buytaert in response to the news. "Working together, the Drupal community is building the future of the dynamic web so that anyone can quickly build great social publishing websites" he concluded.

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CMS Made Simple: Because the best ideas are simple

If you are an experienced web developer, and know how to do the things you need to do, to get a site up with CMS Made Simple is just that, simple. For those with more advanced ambitions there are plenty of addons to download. And there is an excellent community always at your service.

It's very easy to add content and addons wherever you want them to appear on the site. Design your website in whatever way or style you want and just load it into CMSMS to get it in the air. Easy as that!

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About DrupalCon in DC

DrupalCon is the official Drupal unconference that attracts the most talented open source developers and innovative web shops in the world and brings them together to share knowledge, make decisions on the future of Drupal, and get to know each other in person.

It's also the premiere opportunity for Drupal users to learn what they can do with Drupal, find partners for future projects, and meet the people behind the code.

In this agenda you can see what the conference will focus on, and as you can see it's designed for both developers and Drupal users. The first three days of the conference will be about learning, while the last day will be about doing - that's when we'll all work together to push code and documentation forward.

DrupalCon is a volunteer run, nonprofit conference. Thanks to everyone who's helped and to our fantastic sponsors, who are letting us keep ticket prices low by paying for more than half of this event!

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Microsoft ships Drupal

The Web Application Installer Beta is designed to help get you up and running with the most widely used Web Applications freely available for your Windows Server. Web AI provides support for popular ASP.Net and PHP Web applications including Graffiti, DotNetNuke, WordPress, Drupal, OSCommerce and more. With just a few simple clicks, Web AI will check your machine for the necessary pre-requisites, download these applications from their source location in the community, walk you through basic configuration items and then install them on your computer.

To read, go to Microsoft website here.

Drupal + Oracle: Inside the OraDrup Project

Why Bring Oracle and Drupal Together?

So where does Oracle fit in? To date, Drupal has principally been a MySQL-oriented system. A very popular deployment choice for Drupal installations is the LAMP stack (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP). Of course, Drupal is equally at home running under any platform capable of hosting MySQL and PHP.

This is all well and good for the average implementation but sometimes the "M" in LAMP is not an option. Some organizations may not have the luxury of being able to incorporate another database server into their operations. In other cases, MySQL simply might not be the right solution for the task. In such circumstances, the adoption of Drupal is unlikely.

Furthermore, with Drupal having such an active developer community, it is difficult to see why it should not expand its horizons to include Oracle technology. In doing so, Drupal will become a viable option for Oracle-based developers and vice-versa. Were that to happen, it would be very exciting to see it taking advantage of or benefitting from such Oracle features as:

• Data partitioning and parallelism
• Replication and queuing technology
• Real Application Clusters
• Transparent Application Failover and other high availability features
• Fine Grained Access Control at the database level
• Automatic segment space management

Furthermore, with Oracle Database having such a huge presence, it would offer the opportunity for Drupal to gain greater exposure where, previously, it would have been overlooked.

Much has been said about Drupal's potential to support an arbitrary number of database platforms. Indeed, support for PostgreSQL is packaged alongside that for MySQL. Why, then, has there been no reported sighting of Drupal running under Oracle? Despite their good intentions, projects embarking on the path of building Oracle compatibility seem to end up in a "Bermuda Triangle." For that reason, an Oracle-based Drupal implementation has attained almost mythical status—nobody has ever seen one.

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Plain Black Corporation is pleased to announce the release of WebGUI TV

Plain Black Corporation®, maker of the open source content management system WebGUI®, is pleased to announce the release of WebGUI TV. WebGUI TV (WGTV) is a free video library containing archival footage of past WebGUI Users Conference presentations, as well as videos from other training resources. Close to 150 videos on all topics related to WebGUI are currently available, and the collection will continue to grow! WebGUI TV is available to everyone at www.webgui.tv.

Each WGTV video is placed in a “series” so users can easily search for a particular year from the WebGUI Users Conference, for WebGUI Live footage, or by topic related keyword. Most videos in the library contain free supplemental downloads ranging from PDFs of a video's corresponding presentation to full WebGUI Packages ready to deploy on a live WebGUI site.

Throughout the year, Plain Black will slowly release videos from the 2008 WebGUI Users Conference. In addition to videos posted by Plain Black, members of WebGUI's open source community can contribute their own footage by simply uploading their videos to their favorite video websites, then pasting the player code into a WGTV submission form. To learn more about WebGUI TV, read JT Smith's announcement in The Black Blog.

In 2001, Plain Black Corporation® released the first public version of WebGUI®. Today, WebGUI is one of the most popular open source content management systems available. It is downloaded thousands of times per month and is in use as an application framework in Global 1000 companies, government agencies, universities, school districts, and non-profit organizations around the world. Plain Black offers support, training, and customization of WebGUI and the technologies related to it. For more information on Plain Black and WebGUI visit www.plainblack.com and www.webgui.org.

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