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Retailers are an extremely lucky bunch right now — the stock market crash really isn’t good for the bottom line, but the Christmas holiday season might just keep them in the black, assuming that people are feeling cheery enough to part ways with their hard-earned cash this winter season.

A recently conducted survey by Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks company, of 100 enterprises has determined that 55% of leading retailers are feeling the need to counter the selling strategies of competition amidst holiday pressure. Furthermore, 50% of these companies think that advanced online tools are part of the solution — dynamic Web content management is believed to play a significant role.

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Retailers Turn to Dynamic Content Management

Fact: Open source business models can be profitable and consistent. eZ Systems’ open source Web CMS — eZ Publish — has raked up an impressive triple-digit growth and double-digit renewal rates for the first half of 2008.

This is the first time eZ Systems achieved a profitable bottom line. It took 8 years and more than $US 10 million of investments.

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Can Open Source CMS be Profitable? It’s eZ

Content management terminology changes with time. The times of the Micro CMS may soon be gone, as now it appears it is the era of the “simple CMS,” — at least as positioned by Bizy, Inc. They have announced the distribution of their “simple CMS” product Bizyweb. Were they joking?

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Bizyweb: The Debut of the “Simple CMS”

We couldn’t help but notice the recent trend among blogging software products. Many of them are starting to look and act like web content management tools. Is it the seemingly inevitable merger with the Web CMS market, or the progression into the seemingly inevitable micro CMS arena?

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Blogging Trends: Are They Blogging Tools or Micro CMS?

Are you running an open source WCM website that needs a little social interactivity? You can get with it KickApps. The SaaS social media solutions provider has been working hard to provide their services to open source content management solutions like Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. You can learn all about it at the Linux World Expo in San Francisco next week.

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Open Source CMS Websites Get Social with KickApps