If you've noticed a dearth of good CMS-oriented conferences over the past few years, you're not alone.

The race to create behemoth ECM companies continues.

No, they're baseball caps -- all from CMS vendors.

Execs at storage vendor EMC had been hinting for some time that the company was going to become a software player.

MS CMS has always been kind of a tweener, not quite enterprise-ready in scope, but not priced competitively with other mid-market players either.

A new Enterprise Content Management (ECM) architecture is beginning to emerge in the wake of numerous vendor acquisitions and expanded R&D.

You might be sick of Why-XYZ-Is-Like jokes that circle the Internet, but this one -- Why Content Management Systems are like relationships -- is pretty funny (from BBC's Brendan Quinn).

One sign of a maturing Web CMS industry is the growth in CMS-oriented book titles.

As with seemingly all popular XML applications, RSS standard-bearers have splintered into opposing camps.

With its just-announced purchase of mid-sized collaboration vendor Intraspect, Vignette pushes back into the enterprise -- and mimics several competitors -- after a couple of years of emphasizing external portals and customer-focused interaction modules.

We have always been big fans of Bill Trippe, one of the more astute commentators on all things CMS and in particular, the relevance and impact of XML.

Much has been made of IBM's acquisition of boutique CMS vendor, Aptrix.

We like Day Software's CMS technologies, but the company's finances continue to give us pause.

We often criticize software vendors for lax code, but we just came up a bit short in that arena ourselves.

We pay a lot of attention to content integration, because the emergence of best practices here promises to solve a lot of enterprise content management problems.