Mambo awarded best OSS CMS

A panel of industry professionals at the LinuxWorld Australia conference in Sydney named the Mambo content management system (CMS) the best open source software (OSS) solution.

This is according to the Mambo Web site, which adds "the award marks the third time the Mambo software has won the coveted award".

Vendors of secure CMS solutions will move from point products offering single types of protection to broader-based, integrated security solutions, according to a study by International Data Corporation (IDC).

"This will happen at least in part because of the growing complexity that organisations are finding in security management," writes eChannelLine, in reference to the IDC report.

At the messaging layer, companies are looking for single solutions that handle a number of features, including anti-virus, anti-spam and content filtering. At the gateway, more and more unified threat management appliances are including secure CMS features, such as network firewalls, anti-virus and intrusion prevention and detecting, adds the article.

Shares in UK market data technology vendor CMS WebView dropped 18% in early trading on Monday after it said talks with a potential bidder for the company had fallen through.

"The stock fell 18.10% to 2.25 pence after the vendor said discussions with a potential partner have now terminated," reports Finextra.com.

On 7 April CMS WebView revealed it had received an early stage approach - an announcement that followed a share price jump from 1.12 pence to 2.87 pence on rumours that it was being bought out.