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Open source ECM player takes on funding, swaps out CEO
November 20, 2008

Nuxeo, the French open source content management vendor, has taken on £1.7m in a Series A funding round led by OTC Asset Management. It also announced that founder and CEO Stefane Fermigier has stepped up to the chairman role, while Eric Barroca has taken over as CEO.

Nuxeo will use the investment to fund growth into the ECM market, focusing on product development and, “the acceleration of its international expansion plans.” [click continue reading for more]

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How Web 2.0 helped Obama win
November 05, 2008

Whatever your view of Obama’s likely impact on science and technology, it’s inarguable that he used Web 2.0 technologies to help him win the election.

Obama outlined his technology manifesto before McCain, and when McCain did finally say what he would do with regards technology, it seemed he had copied many of Obama’s ideas: he too talked about getting high-speed Internet access to more Americans, for example.

But there were stark differences when it came to their use of technology in their own campaigns. While Obama was using social networking site twitter, blogging, and raising millions of dollars from small donors through a brilliantly-executed website, McCain was struggling to find his technological feet...[click continue reading to find out how Web 2.0 helped Obama win the election]...

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War of words as Zoho sticks it to salesforce.com

So you thought the Software as a Service (SaaS) market was all peace and love? Think again. The CEO of open source, online applications provider Zoho -- Sridhar Vembu – has fired a salvo across salesforce.com’s bows. He is not happy, that’s for sure.

According to Vembu, his firm worked on integrating its online office suite with salesforce.com’s Force.com hosted applications platform. Just before the work was completed, Vembu alleges, salesforce.com pulled the plug and refused to let Zoho play on the platform, because it has online CRM applications of its own. Then, according to Vembu, the real strong-arm tactics began...[click continue reading for what Benioff did next and more of Vembu's accusations]...

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