On the Move

Sitecore Acquires Leading E-commerce Vendor Commerceserver.net

Acquisition brings fully integrated e-commerce capabilities to Sitecore’s experience platform

Sitecore, a global leader in customer experience management software, announced this week that it has acquired commerceserver.net. Sitecore acquired commerceserver.net from SMITH (formerly Ascentium), a global digital experience agency that builds, sells and supports the Commerce Server e-commerce engine.

Alfresco and Acquia to form strategic partnership

Alfresco and Acquia announced today a strategic partnership to deliver business critical content applications to their customers.With this relationship, Acquia builds on Alfresco’s open platform to extend the web experience applications that enable customers to quickly build content applications that span traditional documents, structured editorial workflows and dynamic multi-channel delivery. The combination is expected to give customers the freedom to combine content, community and commerce capabilities into unified digital experiences in order to drive business results.

Drupal Solutions Provider Acquia Doubles in Revenue and Employees

Acquia announced significant growth in revenue and bookings as the company’s open source solutions are becoming more widely adopted. Acquia’s year-over-year revenue grew by 108 percent in 2012. According to the Boston Business Journal, this puts Acquia's revenue for 2012 at $45.3 million. Momentum continued in the first quarter of 2013, as Acquia’s bookings increased 52 percent compared to the first quarter of 2012 and more than 15 percent over the quarter prior.

Jahia opens a new office in Toronto, Canada

The growing team’s major focus is on the development of modules and extensions to further expand the Jahia platform

Washington DC - March 5th 2013 - Jahia, provider of Java-based open source next generation CMS solutions, today announced the opening of a new office in Toronto, Canada as a response to increasingly sophisticated demand in the Americas.

Already staffed with senior Jahia team members, the Toronto-based office will be focusing on both serving North America customers and on the development of modules and extensions that will further enrich the Jahia CMS platform.

Axceler Enhances Security Expertise with Appointment of Michael X. Burns

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – February 28, 2012 – Axceler®,the leader in Microsoft SharePoint governance, administration and migration, today enhanced its security expertise with the appointment of veteran sales executive Michael X. Burns as Regional Vice President of Sales for Western North America.  Axceler is announcing the appointment at SPTechCon – the SharePoint Technology Conference being held in San Francisco this week – where Gold Sponsor Axceler is exhibiting (booth # 608) and participating in the speaking program.

Significant revenue growth seen with SilverStripe CMS

Wellington technology company SilverStripe has recorded its best company growth in its 10 year history, in contrast to the tough global economic conditions that have adversely affected much of the IT industry. SilverStripe recorded 190% revenue growth between 2007 and 2009, ranking SilverStripe the 37th fastest growing business in New Zealand as calculated by Deloitte for their 2009 New Zealand Fast 50 awards.

MiaCMS unites with Aliro

The open source project MiaCMS announced that they and the project team behind the Aliro CMS are joining forces to create a best of breed and next generation CMS. For those folks that aren't familiar with MiaCMS, MiaCMS is a fork of Mambo. I was first introduced to MiaCMS while sitting on the judging panel for Packt Publishing's 2008 Most Promising Open Source CMS Award. Admittedly, Aliro is new to me. Aliro is a project that while appreciating the features and history of the Mambo family (including Joomla!) still saw a need to make some dramatic changes to the CMS architecture and modernize the code base.