Category Archives: Open Source

Joomla! 2.5 launched – a smarter and database agnostic CMS

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Sanjeev Gupta

Joomla, one of the leading Open Source CMS, today launched Joomla! 2.5. Keep in mind that this is a new release of the Joomla! CMS layer and is based on Joomla! Platform 11.4. Just to refresh your memory, with Joomla! … Continue reading →

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Magento eCommerce Review

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Sanjeev Gupta

The fastest growing eCommerce platform in the recent past, Magento is a PHP based Open Source eCommerce platform. Magento is also the youngest member of the eCommerce platform family; that said the brains behind the product have been around in … Continue reading →

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Commercial Open Source – gate crashing the party

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Sanjeev Gupta

Open Source project are primarily ‘community driven’ project that are often lead (but not governed) and supported by the community. While some customers ( primarily individuals and small organizations) have been prompt in adopting these open source projects; a significant … Continue reading →

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A big repository change for Nuxeo

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Sanjeev Gupta

I was recently updating the Nuxeo evaluation in our Document & Records Management Research, and the biggest news here is that the open source ECM vendor has replaced its repository layer. The company has replaced its Apache Jackrabbit JCR repository … Continue reading →

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Implications of Joomla! 1.7 and the Joomla! Platform

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Sanjeev Gupta

The Joomla! open source WCM community today released version 1.7, just 6 months after the release of 1.6. Perhaps because the development team has been busy stabilizing a 1.6 trunk that was packed with many new features, version 1.7 does … Continue reading →

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Liferay Portal Review Update

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Sanjeev Gupta

Hi All !! I’m working to update my Liferay Portal 5.2 review to a recent release – version 6. If you’ve had experience with the product, I’d love to hear your view & experiences.

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Portals & Mashup Product Evaluation

Posted on July 11, 2010 by Sanjeev Gupta

The Real Story Group recently released its “Portals and Content Integration” report version 1.0. Authored by Apoorv Durga, this report give you a pretty comprehensive insight into some of  the leading products on the Portals and Mashup (aka Content Integration) … Continue reading →

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Open Source CMS Award 2009

Posted on November 14, 2009 by Sanjeev Gupta

The Annual Open Source CMS awards organized by Pact Publishing have just been announced and it’s good to see WordPress join the winning club. This year WordPress has been announced as the Overall winner of the Open Source CMS award, … Continue reading →

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