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We at Jahia, always believed that the content management market would enter a critical phase where WCM, DM, Portal, Search, and Social would meet. When this occurred, the expectations of the creators of web content and the expectations of users would also meet. This “convergence” is happening now. We are now entering the “customer satisfaction” era, in which all sorts of users get to create, access, edit, share, combine, comment, and react to content: Regardless of where the content resides, ...

This post has been written by: Glenn Korban – Director of Technology - Oshyn Glenn's Bio: As a technical architect on the Oshyn team, Glenn specializes in delivering interactive enterprise solutions leveraging WCM technologies, custom Web-app development, and Agile development methodologies. With 9 years of experience in software development, Glenn has worked in fields such as entertainment, finance, automotive, and some top-secret defense and intelligence stuff we can’t talk about (or we’d ha...

An interview from Emmanuel Garcin, VP and General Manager of Jahia Americas. Hi Emmanuel, it sounds like there's a lot of excitement among your clients and integration partners over Jahia's new composite content platform, currently in beta. Why is version 6.5 a big deal? Emmanuel Garcin: Version 6.5 is a big deal for several reasons. Above all, I'd say that our new release will make module creation easier than ever before - more like a PHP solution such as Drupal -- which is unheard of among J...

Recently, an article on CMSWire caused quite a stir, mostly because it was asking the controversial question "Is the JCR dead ?". In reply, a few opinions posted by myself and other CMS actors/vendors were quick to appear, but I think some clarification is needed in order to explain what I think is really relevant for developers, integrators and end-users. The quick answer is : neither JCR nor CMIS are really important for end-users. Fortunately most of them will never have to deal with either...

I often get the question of why open source code is important, aside from the usual benefits of code review, security auditing, and the general idea that more eyeballs makes for better implementations ? Well, where it really shines is during support, when you are investigating a bug. Let's say that you have a bug, and that for once it is not in your code. It seems to come from some library that is used by your software. When this happens, for example when I'm working on an iPhone application...

I was going through some CMS and portal software implementations yesterday, and looked at them from a standards point of view. You might wonder, why are standards important ? Isn't it easier to build something minimal that will do just the job ? Well in terms of software engineering it probably seems to be, but you end up in a very proprietary system, but using standards don't necessarily mean that you will have to build more code. One standard comparison that is often mentioned nowadays is t...