Recent Real Story Group Blog Entries

Smarter Desktops

Desktop applications for Web publishing are getting smarter by encompassing more management features typically found in server-based CMS packages.

Still Not Dead...For Ten More Years

Vignette's recent acquisition of Epicentric reminds us that several major CMS vendors still have reasonably healthy balance sheets, despite sickly and ever-declining income statements.

Some Intranet Wisdom from Down Under

When called in to help corporations with their Intranet publishing efforts, we often find that they suffer more from a pure content problem, rather than a CMS challenge.

MediaSurface Buys Reef

Really just the bones of Reef -- out of receivership. We hope they didn't pay a lot.

Ektron Gets Flashy

We've been watching Flash slowly move across the radar screens of CMS user interface afficionadoes.

Vignette: New Version and New Targets

With its new V7 Vignette tries to attack two areas where it had fallen behind some of the field: business-user functionality and content integration.

What exactly is Microsoft XDocs?

Steve Ballmer created a little stir with this announcement last week. It's too early to say for sure, but the product, as Microsoft describes it, strikes us as less of a general-purpose XML editor and more of a forms builder and processor.