Voting open for CMS award

The voting for the 2008 Open Source Content Management Software (CMS) Award opened on 14 July, says Information Week.

The awards, now in their third year, are sponsored by Packt Publishing, and are designed to 'encourage, support, recognise and reward' popularity and quality in the many open source content management systems available.

Last year's award contest was won by Drupal, edging out Joomla! in a tight race. Joomla!, however, beat Drupal in the Best Open Source PHP category. The other winners were MODx for Most Promising CMS, mojoPortal for Best Non-PHP Open Source CMS and WordPress for Best Social Networking CMS. This year, in addition to carrying over the same categories from last year, a new category has been added - the 2008 Open Source CMS MVP Award, which is intended to recognise the often overlooked individual contributions to projects.

Open Text, a Canada-based provider of enterprise content management software, has acquired eMotion LLC from Corbis Corporation, reports Fox Business.

The acquisition gives Open Text's Artesia Digital Media Group a broader portfolio of offerings for marketing departments and advertising agencies, adding capabilities that complement its enterprise marketing asset management solution, Artesia DAM.

The move will extend Open Text's digital media capabilities as part of its Enterprise 2.0 strategy.

Interwoven, a US content management solution provider, has received a 'strong positive' rating in independent analyst Gartner's recent report "MarketScope for Web Content Management", writes Earth Times.

Interwoven was one of only two vendors that received the highest possible rating out of 17 companies evaluated in the report.

The MarketScope report evaluated Web content management vendors based on their product/service offering, customer experience, sales execution and pricing, overall viability, innovation, marketing execution, and geographic strategy.