Zwijnaarde, Belgium, 2006-08-17.
Daisy going strong: Outerthought ships version 1.5 of its flagship
open source CMS
Keeping to its twice-a-year release schedule, Outerthought announces
today the immediate availability of a new major Daisy release. Daisy
is a feature-rich and solid open source CMS, which combines the ease
of use of a WYSIWYG Wiki-like editing environment with solid
repository back-end functionalities. It is the only open source CMS
that also offers production-quality book generation, and is in use at
major corporations around the globe. Daisy has its own repository,
and a Cocoon-based web front-end.
The 1.5 release marks major progress for Daisy's product maturity,
with an improved deployment scheme separating user data and
customization files from the core product assembly. This will make
future upgrades especially trouble-free, and opens up possibilities
for install automation and drop-in add-on functionality. Adding to
that, our messaging subsystem has been overhauled to use the popular
ActiveMQ library, significantly reducing the deployment footprint.
The filesystem-based parts storage subsystem is now hierarchically
organized, to allow for larger data storage volumes even on less
capable filesystem implementations, and the relational metadata store
offers many enhancements as well, most notably a link type field and
query-based selection lists for field values. Given these, it is
possible to model relationships between structured documents using
the flexible Daisy scheme.
New end-user functionality include a revamped default skin which is
better componentized and more CSS-based to allow for easy adaption,
one-click switching between staging and live views of a website,
automated and configurable image thumbnailing and metadata (EXIF)
extraction, and comprehensive SVG support. Site navigation trees can
be made more dynamic using queries generating navigation hierarchies,
and the facetted browser now ships with many new features, rivalling
those of commercial implementations.
Daisy 1.5 firmly hits the sweet spot of the crossroads of (website)
content management, knowledge management and documentation
production. Daisy doesn't limit you to managing websites with pages:
it streamlines and organizes your organisation's content into a re-
use-ful information repository, and tops that with a flexible
publishing engine.
The Daisy community is thriving with steady growth, with new list
members every week, and also funded development of new Daisy features
has been ever increasing. Daisy's business-friendly and no-strings-
attached Apache 2.0 license has been gaining attention from several
redistributors.
Outerthought wishes to thank two companies for helping us out with
this release: Sun Microsystems for providing us with a CoolThreads
T2000 test server, and QAD Inc. for funding the improved SVG support
and more upcoming new features. Obviously, this went hand in hand
with the support we've been receiving from the Daisy community.
Furthermore, Outerthought has been signing up several major Daisy
customers and projects over the past few months, who will be
announced mid fall 2006 during our fifth anniversary event.
Daisy 1.5 is available from www.daisycms.org - with a Debian Linux
install package and Windows installer upcoming. Commercial Daisy
services and support can be found on our website outerthought.org.
For further enquiries, please contact Steven Noels:
[EMAIL PROTECTED], m. +32 478 29 29 00.
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Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/
Outerthought Open Source Java & XML
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