And so it has started. The end of the year is upon us and everyone is thinking about what’s ahead. Independent analyst firm CMS Watch has offered up their 2009 predictions. If the results of how they faired with last year’s round are any indication, we may all do well to pay attention.

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We all love our micro-blogging applications. We Tweet, we Tumble, we Pownce (or at least we did Pownce),  we feed our friends. Now thanks to Movable Type we are in Motion. They have released a beta for their new social application, Motion, for licensed users of Movable Type Pro.

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O’Reilly Media wants to help make working with the Drupal web content management system just a bit easier. Many people realize that when working with a CMS of any kind, even an open source option, things can get pretty hairy for those not overly savvy with code and module configuration. Using Drupal’s goal is to eliminate as much frustration and as many wrong turns as possible.

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Enterprise level applications are not cheap. In particular, enterprise content management systems can send an organization’s budget plans through the roof. Unless, of course, you are implementing an open source enterprise cms. So the story goes.

According to open source enterprise cms provider Alfresco, they are the alternative with a scalable, easy to use platform at a fraction of the price.

We read their Total Cost of Ownership for Enterprise Content Management whitepaper. The whitepaper walks you through the licensing and hardware costs associated with several propertiery ECMs and shows how clearly open source is the more inexpensive option.

But the story of project costs is not just a tale of license price. There’s a lot more money to spend implementing an Enterprise CMS.

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Jadu, the Web Content Management vendor, has released a product that will help bridge the gap between PHP and .NET software development languages. The company’s Phalanger PHP compiler will allow PHP applications to be compiled into the .NET framework.

This new product from Jadu will help bridge the gap between .NET, a common application framework found in corporate environments, and PHP, the most popular web programming language found on open source web services on the Internet. As a result, companies should be able to shave off application development costs.

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Alfresco may not have been in the original group of three Enterprise CMS vendors who developed the CMIS Specification, but they certainly are the most active when it comes to putting it to use. Today they announce a partnership with Joomlatools that demonstrates the first official integration module based on CMIS: Alfresco:Joomla!™ Integration Module.

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Drupal is at it again with another round of updated releases. While not major releases, these new versions from Drupal do address a number of security fixes and bugs that were brought to their attention via Drupal’s bug tracking system.

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CMSWire hasn’t talked a great deal about open source ECM provider Nuxeo lately, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t been hard at work enhancing their CMS solution and building new products — they have. In fact, we had an opportunity to see just what Nuxeo has been up to lately – new Digital Asset Management Product to name one thing – and where they are headed next year – dare we say the cloud?

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Security seems to be the topic of the day. With browsers rushing to release security hot fixes and CMS’s trying to keep their systems as secure as possible, the news from Web CMS PHP Fusion comes at a bad time. Yesterday, PHP Fusion announced that someone had hacked their site and changed the download link for PHP Fusion 7 to spendspace and it came as a .rar file.

While not a good scenario, the PHP 5-based (PHP 4-compatible) Web CMS developed by Nick Jones (also known as Digitanium) was quick to announce that anyone who had downloaded version 7 may have gotten a version that contained malicious files. Remember the issues Joomla! had in regards to the Harvard site being hacked? But again, transparency and quick notification can usually eliminate too much backlash from something like this.

So PHP Fusion made the announcement and let the community know. Everything seemed okay…until today. PHP Fusion’s site has now been suspended by their hosting provider. Suspicions are that it has been discontinued due to the security breach, which came as a result of a weak account that a hacker gained the password for and was allowed in as a super administrator.

What does this mean for PHP Fusion? No one is sure yet, but  it makes us wonder about other possible security holes in various versions of the PHP Fusion — as in the case with any CMS provider who has its own site hacked to the point of getting it suspended.

There has been no news as to when (or if) the site will be available again. It’s possible that SourceForge (a supporter of PHP Fusion) will have an update in the event if PHP Fusion’s main site is still down. You can still download PHP Fusion version 7 at SourceForge. But you may want to wait until the dust settles, and it’s safe to click that download link.

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