It was inevitable. And you'll see more of it. With recent mergers, acquisitions, and outright collapse, vendors will offer competitive upgrades to stranded buyers.

In yet another sign of the times, Vignette is simplifying and making more transparent its infamously byzantine pricing structure.

Sometimes the real world reminds you. Our hearts go out to the families of the victims of today's violence...

A sure sign of maturation in a software industry is the development of vertically-focussed product offshoots.

Unlike Microsoft and Oracle, IBM is trying to avoid competing with its technology partners in the Web CM space (though Enterprise CM is another story...).

Peek into the debate raging on the XML-DEV listserv, courtesy of O'Reilly's XML.com. The discussion is more than academic.

Consolidation reaches the CM "majors" as divine acquires OpenMarket.

The goal of most CM products is to allow non-technical staff to manage the production of Web content. But with some exceptions, the transformation of content at runtime for publishing to different users and formats still remains the domain of programmers, DBAs, and XSL gurus.

Aberdeen reports that Interwoven leads all vendors in CM marketshare with 25%.

Most major Document Management vendors still standing have reinvented themselves as Web CM plays. FileNET has taken a different track, focusing on Enterprise CM.

KM toolmaker PurpleYogi announces new version releases. With tremendous knowledge locked up in unstructured corporate file repositories, automated tools for organizing and classifying that content are very hot right now.

Zope creator Digital Creations renames itself the "Zope Corporation" and debuts a new, CM-focused version of its famous app server.

After at least two years of standing on the sidelines, Microsoft joins the CM market, with its launch of "Content Management Server" -- only 3 months following its acquisition Ncompass Resolution.

Little-known CM vendor Grey Zone lauds a recent Forrester report that praises Vignette.