paul.nowak wrote: Matt, thanks for the comments. I made an error on the version of Plone. It's 2.5 Plone running on Zope 2.9x.
In regards to the additional products, we have a skin installed and we have a product that we had custom developed for us that connects to a PostgreSQL database. We've looked at slow PostgreSQL queries causing problems and have not been able to find an issue. We've also tested for the case where the PostgreSQL server is down and have not been able to create an issue. We therefor...
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eZ Systems, the world´s largest open source content management software company, announced today that former IBM and BEA executive Christoph Rau will join the company as CEO, effective immediately.
The new version of SCHEMA ST4 features several highlights, among them the possibility for unified presentation of technical documentation, a new product information management (PIM) module, and more flexibility for the layout of text and graphical elements. In addition, this XML-based ...
One of the most hotly debated questions among marketers and company executives is “What does it mean to be a social business?”Today Acquia, Inc., the enterprise guide to the Drupal social publishing system provides the answer and also reveals what Social Business Software vendors aren’...
His latest book, The Idea of Justice, is a serious re-examination of the foundations of justice from a global perspective. He speaks of the two definitions of justice in Sanskrit - niti (institutional justice) and nyaya (realized justice) - and how we are too often misled by the utopia...
Here's a little Drupal Tip O' the Day for our readers. As many of you know, we're platform agnostic here at Orchestra (meaning we run Macs, Linux, Windows and more), so we often end up discovering little tricks and tips about our different OSes. For those of you building a Drupal websi...
The French subsidiary of Condé Nast S.A., one of the world's largest private communications groups (Advance Magazine Publishers Inc.), has selected Ingres, the leading open source database management company and pioneer of The New Economics of IT, to develop a critical application to ...
NTFS boot sector is the first sector of an NTFS-based hard drive that contains vital information needed by your computer system to start the operating system. Although the NTFS boot sector is less prone to corruption or damage, corruption or damage can still occur.
42 content marketing tactics, over 50 case studies and hundreds of resources - "The Content Marketing Playbook: 42 Ways to Connect with Customers" is packed with lots of ideas to execute on your content strategy. Read on to get an insider look into the making of "The Content Marketing ...
Extending the enterprise-wide Project Portfolio Management (PPM) capabilities of Oracle's Primavera product suite, Oracle today announced new releases of Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and Oracle's Primavera Contract Management. The new Primavera P6 Enter...
A recent poll shows more than 96% of Healthcare professionals are following Obama's Reform debate closely. The President's new ideals for healthcare are clearly a major issue for the industry and many leading professionals are asking the question Is their business prepared for such c...
WLEX-TV in Lexington, Kentucky, an NBC affiliate, has turned its news site into a blog. It actually contains news produced independently of what goes out on broadcast. Very very interesting. It’s a different way of slicing the news, with much debt to Dave Winer’s river of news idea, a...
Zimbra is open source server software for email and collaboration - email, group calendar, contacts, instant messaging, file storage and web document management. The Zimbra email and calendar server is available for Linux, Mac OS X and virtualization platforms. Zimbra syncs to smartpho...
Prolifics, an end-to-end systems integrator specializing in IBM technologies, today announced that it continues to offer companies an easy transition to Lotus Web Content Management (WebCM). In today's fast-paced business environment, organizations must have the ability to effectively ...
In its second purchase in two days EMC said late Tuesday that it was buying eDiscovery shop Kazeon Systems Inc, whose software is used by corporations, law firms, government agencies and legal service providers.
Terms were not disclosed and are too immaterial to impact EMC’s result...
Online backup storage from Carbonite is the right tool if you want to automatically back up all the data on your PC. Most importantly, Carbonite is a set-and-forget service. It takes just one minute to download and install and then you're all set. Carbonite is integrated with the Windo...
Here's a brief look at what people are saying about Drupal in Twitter. It's getting hot in here. I'm using drupal http://drupal.org to build a new paid membership site
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User Wall: A simple "facebook" style wall module. Allows users inside the drupal site to view and p...
Wow, look at me, I'm famous. Oh wait, what have I done. Are people going to follow me to the grocery store with cameras now?
Probably not, unless the world turns it's attention from Jon and Kate to SAP Business One. But in our little world, this is pretty cool.
Orchestra and myse...
Centric, a leading management and technology consulting company, today announced completion of the new web presence for Motorists Insurance Group. Jahia, the premier Open Source web content integration software, has been chosen to power all external knowledge sharing solutions of the r...
Are you a C-level IT executive or IT decision maker? Take this brief eight-question multiple choice survey on IT Outsourcing and you’ll receive a one in 50 chance of winning a new iPhone 3GS! You’ll also be among the first to receive the compelling survey results, offering insight into...
Unfortunately, I don't know anyone personally who uses the company's services. And beyond a few vague testimonials, the company doesn't have any stories of other customers' successes. When prospects are looking for evidence from satisfied customers, are you delivering it? Here are 3 wa...
‘Antiquated’ systems means the Government is not delivering Claims the Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health during an exclusive interview for MeettheBoss.com
Wildfire delivers a social media promotions platform. This is an interview with its CEO Victoria Ransom. We play in 2 categories, we’re in the Social Media Marketing category and we’re also in the promotions space. We've taken promotion formats that have been proven successful and hav...
Bazaarvoice, the market and technology leader in hosted social commerce applications that drive sales, today announced that it serves more retailers on the 2009 Internet Retailer 500 ranking than any other social media competitor. Bazaarvoice dominates the Top 100, where it beats out i...
It’s clear that customer case studies and success stories are integral to the sales process. But how many organizations actually use them in every proposal?
How do you bring your customer stories into your sales proposals? Here, Robin Haydon, Australian proposal-writing expert and aut...
Information in the context of a story is dramatically more compelling than straight facts. Yet, many nonprofits fail to tell stories to illustrate their challenges and successful outcomes. Whether you work for a nonprofit, are an independent writer, or board member or volunteer, here a...
Two Degrees Mobile (http://www.2degreesmobile.co.nz/) is New Zealand’s newest mobile company. They’ve spent $250 million constructing a brand new mobile network in New Zealand and have launched their offering this week with extremely aggressive pricing. This upstart telecoms operatio...
Email Data Source, Inc., the email marketing industry’s original source for email competitive intelligence, has announced that Twitter has officially become the most linked to social media outlet in email marketing campaigns.
“In the data Email Data Source has been tracking, there ...
DataParts for SharePoint 2007 is an exciting new family of Web Parts from Software FX that enable you to add business intelligence, data visualization and analysis to your SharePoint portals. With DataParts, it's never been easier to create your SharePoint Reports and Dashboards. With ...
Bernie Borges' new book: Marketing 2.0: Bridging the Gap between Seller and Buyers through Social Media Marketing. Bernie's book aims to give a macro view of social media marketing with a focus on "what it is" and "how" small and medium size businesses (SMB) can develop a strategy, imp...
Jahia (www.jahia.com), the first Web Content Integration software to combine all business, collaborative and social application portals into one simple user interface, today announced the expansion of its US headquarters in Washington, DC to serve North American clients.
Two years ...
Well said, Seth! I want to go a step further and challenge marketing and sales professionals to eat their own marketing dog food. Every time you and your company make a decision to post ads, email prospects/customers, send newsletters, cold call, email unsolicited sales pitches, flat o...
Over the past couple of months, we at Idiom Strategies have pitched a string of proposals to companies who stated they had an interest in doing something different and wanted to know if they should “get into social media”.
When we initially met with these companies and explained ou...
Adventure Training Concepts(ATC) shows us quickly and precisely what they do and why should we should care
I met the founders of this company several years ago when they were just getting started. I always loved the idea of what they were attempting to do but had never looked at their...
Focus groups work great for markets that are trendy - where buyer behavior follows a herd mentality. Which is mostly in the consumer space.
If you want an honest, accurate customer moment - you have to do it 1:1. Mano-a-mano. 
Apparently, companies realize that front office solutions that help capture more buyers and understand their needs are critical to their success regardless of the recession. Hopefully, these companies are focused just as much on the process and training as the technology. CRM is a long...
M&A activity slowed significantly throughout the Information Industry in the 1st Half of 2009, as the total number of announced transactions fell by 29% and aggregate value dropped by 45%, compared with the same period in 2008. These trends indicate that while desire to do deals has be...
Should busy executives use Twitter? Hmmm. There is a line (or a tweet) in the sand on this one. It's a hot topic guaranteed to bring out heated opinions. And be sure to get your gloves on if you enter this dialogue.
A recent Business Week article on CEOs tweeting can give you insigh...
'Will Ulitzer and SocialYell Dominate News Content on The Web (Eventually)?' is the blog title of Gartner's Anthony Bradley. In his blog entry, Bradley writes: "Hype around Ulitzer.com (the social-journalism news magazine site) is climbing. At one point they were offering authors 200% ...
