Xythos delivers on-demand CMS

Xythos Software has unveiled an on-demand content management system (CMS) for small and midsized businesses looking to avoid the expense of licensing and maintaining in-house systems.

"Xythos On Demand provides secure file storage and collaboration features through a browser-based interface. The offering is a scaled-down version of the company's Enterprise Document Management Suite," writes InformationWeek.

The product offers document storage and file management features such as check-in and checkout, version control, and automatic change notifications sent via e-mail. For collaboration, each file can be accessed through a URL, so only links need to be e-mailed among people working together on documents. Folders and files are displayed in a tree-like format similar to Windows Explorer.

The Property Magazine, a multi-award winning South African publication for innovation in publishing, has chosen locally developed CMS SoftPage to add a new dimension to its business model.

This is according to a press release, which states: "The Property Magazine specifically required a complete in-house solution allowing for all future Web development and maintenance to be done internally, which translated into optimum staff utilisation and lower overall development cost."

An attractive SoftPage feature, adds the article, is that it allowed total design freedom, as the publication wanted to dictate its own design.

Wikia has recently purchased social media site ArmChairGM.com, and has released the foundational software that ArmChairGM runs on as a free Wiki and Social Media platform, writes CMSWire.

"The free service is being offered through a dedicated Wikia site called www.openserving.com. In his talk today CEO Gil Penchina didn't claim to have a business plan, but rather to be operating under the assumption that if [the masses] share, one will come," notes the article.

Penchina added that the opening up the OpenServing platform to the world for free is just an extension of the open source software philosophy and normal course of action.