Submission by Damian Carvill

The spirit of Open Source was extended today with the news that Packt Publishing is paying royalties from each book they sell to the open source project it is written on.

Open Source is focused on providing users with software that is free to modify, redistribute and ultimately free to use. The nature of being Open Source means that projects have largely relied on the generosity and goodwill of an enthusiastic community in order to prosper. Packt Publishing is responding to this need by choosing to allocate a portion of the revenues from each book they sell to the open source project the book is written on.

Submission by Amey

Does opencms have a wizard which controls the layout of the page? for eg:

Lets say, i divided my web site in 3 parts (left, right, and centre) can i employ this wizard and put the "links" in the left sec. "news" in middle and "more info" in right sec., further i can also use this to change the "old news" to "current news" or put "news" to left sec. and "links" to the middle sec.!

F1 (help!:)).

Submission by Alexander Kandzior

Interactive OpenCms 5.0 documentation available from Alkacon
Software

Submission by Alexander Kandzior

OpenCms version 5.0 final (5.0.0) available

Alkacon Software has finished work on
the final release for OpenCms version 5.0, one of the leading open source
content management solutions. The exact version number of this release version
is OpenCms 5.0.0.

Submission by Alex Kandzior / Alkacon Software

Alkacon Software has released version 5.0 beta 2 of OpenCms, one of the leading open source content management solutions. This version is a major step towards the final release of OpenCms 5. It adds a number of important features especially for the JSP integration and caching mechanism. The most visible change from previous versions is the new structure of the OpenCms workplace in the virtual file system (VFS), which now has a much more streamlined directory layout. A long list of minor enhancements and fixes completes this release.

Submission by Daniel Krech

A new development version of Redfoot has been Released. A new stable release, 1.8.0, should follow later this month.

Submission by Henri Bergius

ZDNet's John McGrath takes a look at some Open Source CMS alternatives.

"Cash-strapped, and looking for new options, IT managers are warming to open-source content management products. Customizable and free, open-source is becoming serious competition to the 'big iron' CMS vendors like Interwoven and Vignette."

http://www.opencms.org -
It introduces the following new main features:

• New features for the WYSIWYG-Editor
• Search form for searching resources in the virtual filesystem
• Database import can now upload the zip file from the local client
• The access to the workplace can be limited to a user defined port
• General bugfixes

http://www.opencms.org -

It introduces the following new main features:

• Static export of the managed website
• Generic master module for backoffice modules
• Support of the https-protocol
• Import and export of moduledata and channels