Portal Vendors Rallying Around Standards. Vignette becomes the latest portal software developer to announce new products built on the Web Services for Remote Portlets standard 1.0. [eWEEK Technology News]
Plumtree Ships Products to Support WSRP & Proposed JSR 168 Portlet Standards. Plumtree released new software to support Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) from OASIS and the proposed final draft of the Java Specification Request 168 (JSR 168) portlet standard…The Plumtree Container was designed to run on many application servers and Web servers including Apache Tomcat, BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere. www.plumtree.com [Gilbane Report News]
What to Make of ECM Mergers and Acquisitions. Major CMS vendors are on a path to becoming “ECM” vendors. CMSWatch founder Tony Byrne points out that this won’t upend the marketplace as a whole, but software buyers should remain wary of newly-assembled product “suites”…… [CMSWatch Trends and Features]
Good advice regarding what to do if your CMS vendor acquires or is acquired by another company.
Amazon publishes RSS feeds.
From Amazon’s Web Services Newsletter #3…
Amazon now provides RSS feeds for many browse nodes. These feeds were
built using AWS and XSLT. You can find convenient “builders” for the
feed URLs at several locations including
http://www.onfocus.com/bookwatch/AmazonRSS.asp and
http://www.neopoleon.com/blog/chooseFeedGroup.aspx .
For more information about Amazon’s feeds visit
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/xs/syndicate.html . For more
information about RSS, visit
http://www.code101.com/Code101/DisplayArticle.aspx?cid=41 .
Open Text to Buy Gauss. The cash acquisition is valued at $11 million and is expected to close during the fourth calendar quarter. [eWEEK Technology News]
From the Amazon Web Services newsletter #2…
Jeff Barr recently spoke at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference and
the Applied XML Conference. If you were unable to attend, you can find
some great online summaries here:
http://www.camworld.com/archives/001226.html
http://www.sellsbrothers.com/spout/#The_Killer_App_for_Web_Services
http://www.neopoleon.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx/40c488e8-c87a-4faa-9ecd-53046e9f74f5
http://www.neopoleon.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx/0de9bf3e-837a-4f5a-bd2b-b3dce222d646
Vignette Enhances Portal Functionality. Vignette Corp. announced enhancements to its flagship portal product, Vignette Application Portal, including enhanced team collaboration functionality that enables customers to participate in information-sharing and persistent collaboration environments within their organizations. [Gilbane Report News]
Stellent Buys Ancept. Conent management vendors extends video management offerings with purchase. [eWEEK Technology News]
MIT’s Open-Course Project. From Ho Chi Minh City to Nashville, Tennessee, students are flocking to MIT’s new program to post about 2,000 classes on the Web, for free. Meet the global geeks getting an MIT education, open-source style. By David Diamond of Wired magazine. [Wired News]