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What ho! Is that a new version of WordPress (news, site)

Previously, we reported about Mediaspectrum’s (news, site)

With the release of v7.5 of the open source content management system, OpenCms (news, site), it looks like they gone through previous versions, underlined all the problems they could find, taken in-hand all reported bugs from their community, and fixed them.

Also added is a collection of new features that weren’t there before and a significant upgrade to the OpenCMS Content Relation Engine (CRE), adding some new features to something that was already quite nifty.

Developed by Alkacon Software with the help of the OpenCms community, the thing to take really note of in this release is the improvements to the CRE.

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OpenCMS 7.5 Released with a Beefed Up Content Relation Engine

Yes, the Central Intelligence Agency is among 18 U.S. Intelligence organizations to benefit from the Apache Lucene/Solr enterprise search technology.

In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s VC arm, has announced its investment into Lucid Imagination, a commercial provider of open source search technologies.

This may mean a lot of things (just scratching the surface here): great exposure for Apache (not bad of a present for the ASF’s 10th birthday), promotion of open source adoption, better data mining opportunities for the U.S. intelligence — you name it.

Facebook and Google, interestingly, are also (indirectly) in the mix.

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CIA Invests in Open Source Lucene, Solr Search

Enterprise-wide structured content initiatives are most effective when they take into account the needs of some of their least technical, but most valuable content contributors — the subject matter experts. Ignore the daily work habits and common tools of this group and your initiative is sure to suffer.

Excerpted from:
Finding the Right Tools for Enterprise-wide Structured Content