Web Hosting Geeks' Blog » Hippo CMS http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog Web Hosting Industry News, Latest Trends, and Analyses. Thu, 24 May 2012 11:11:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Under 35: The Top Five CMS Executiveshttp://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/under-35-the-top-five-cms-executives/ http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/under-35-the-top-five-cms-executives/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:29:01 +0000 Art http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/?p=956

Content management systems (CMS) have become a vital part of the internet for storing large media files like photos and videos as well as text content. Although there are many in existence, a few have exploded and are the most popular in the virtual world.

The top content management system executives have either invented the particular system or have improved it to the success it is today. The top five CMS executive list includes:

  1. Arje Cahn
  2. David Nuescheler
  3. Dries Buytaert
  4. Eric Barroca
  5. Niels Hartvig

Born near Amsterdam, Netherlands, the current Chief Technology Officer of One Hippo is the intelligence behind Hippo CMS. As the co-founder of One Hippo, he offers a product that appeals to end-users and developers. At the University of Amsterdam, Cahn studied Artificial Intelligence and wrote robotics software for motion controlled cameras. Ironically he never finished his degree and instead started his own business.

David Nuescheler is the Chief Technology Officer of Day Software which is a global content management solution company. Born in Basel, Switzerland and studying computer science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, he entered the CMS industry through a transition from Interactive CD-ROW manufacturer to an interactive web agency.

Dries Buytaert is the primary brain behind the popular open source Drupal CMS and is also the Chief Technology Officer of Acquia. He started Drupal accidentally when needing an internal message board that evolved into a content management system. The combination of experimentation and intelligence allowed Drupal to evolve into the success it is today.

At age 28, Eric Barroca is the youngest on the list. As the current CEO of Nuxeo, which is an enterprise open source CMS, he started his career as a freelance developer during the dot com boom. A high school dropout, Barroca joined Nuxeo in 2001 and advanced from sales to VP of operations and finally to CEO.

Finally, Niels Hartvig is the founder of Umbraco which is another open source content management system. Umbraco had over 250,000 downloads in 2009 and hosts 7,000 active community members. Hartvig began his career in 1997 as a web developer before content management systems existed; they were referred to as online administrative systems. He enjoyed the job so much, he never left.

As the youngest CMS executives, they all display high intelligence, good programming skills and excellent business sense. These traits allow the five youngest CMS executives to continue to prosper in this ever-growing industry.

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DotNetNuke

September was a very busy month for the DotNetNuke project.  Shaun Walker, co-founder and Chief Architect of the project, was appointed on the Board of Directors for the Microsoft CodePlex Foundation, where he will lend the expert perspective that helped DotNetNuke become one of the most successful open-source CMS platforms built on the Microsoft technology stack.  Last month also saw the launch of the DotNetNuke Fusion Partner Program, a partner program that offers Registered, Certified and Gold memberships to web hosting providers, system integrators, web designers and training partners.  The most noteworthy news was DotNetNuke’s anointment as a Network Partner in the Microsoft Website Spark program.

eZ Systems

In September 2009, software vendor eZ Systems released version 4.2 of its eZ Publish CMS.  This version release emphasizes usability, better performance and more advanced capabilities for built-in search.  There are also many new extensions as well as a new version of the eZ Find tool, the company’s innovative search engine.  eZ Systems plans to keep itself occupied in the month of October by attending the IFRA Expo in Vienna, Austria on from the 12 to 15th and hosting its own seminar in Paris for its French base of users and customers on the 16th.

Hippo CMS

In October, the Hippo team will be organizing an International Forge Friday dedicated to the communities of Hippo and Jetspeed Portal.  The purpose of these gatherings is to bring, developers, system administrators, technical support staff and others together to discuss plugins, add-ons, components and other items that could become Hippo Forge projects.  The event is taking place on October 30 at 9 am to 2 pm PDT from the Hippo San Francisco office and 14:00 to 21:00 CET from the Hippo Amsterdam office.  Interested parties can also attend the event online.

Movable Type

The latest version of Movable Type, 4.32 was just released last week.  This version is mainly a bug release fix as it addresses a number of small bugs.  Version 4.32 also includes the Zemanta plugin, which acts as an editorial management tool that recommends content relative to your blog entries.  The latest version of Movable Type is available free at the official website.

Nuxeo

This October, software vendor Nuxeo will launch a new release of its Nuxeo EP CMS.  Some of the most notable features of the release include a new tag service, an enhanced import/export function, support for Microsoft SharePoint, OpenSocial widgets and a CMIS implementation based on the Apache Chemistry platform.

Xoops

This past September, the Xoops CMS project launched the RC (release candidate) of version 2.4.0.  The enhancements targeted for this particular version emphasize productivity and better usability, focusing on areas such as a new graphical user interface for administrators, the ability to modularize and extend the core via preloads, a much improved installer and centralized support for jQuery among others.  The final release for Xoops 2.4.0 is expected very soon.

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