SYDNEY, Australia – 18 November 2010 – Elcom, a leading Australian enterprise web content management vendor, today announced at the 2010 Gartner IT Symposium that it will be expanding into the North American market by opening an office in New York City, in January 2011.

Only days after the Spanish government awarded a 12m Euro contract to maintain the content and security of its EU summit web site the site has been hacked by none other than the bumbling Mr Bean.

Who said there isn’t money to be made in open source? The Spanish government has awarded a 12m Euro contract to Telefonica to maintain the Presidential web site, a site that is built on OpenCMS, an open source content management system.

Can the US Government see open source as a viable platform driving its web sites? Yes it can!

Queensland’s Moreton Bay Regional Council has selected Objective Corporation’s process, content and collaboration management solution to help it achieve management efficiencies and cost savings in the wake of its formation from the amalgamation of three former councils.

Enterprise content management group, Open Text, has appointed a new sales head of  its SAP business for the Australian and New Zealand markets.

Interwoven, a provider of enterprise content management solutions, has appointed a new managing director for Australia and New Zealand to drive business in the region and to generate new deals for its “class-leading” enterprise CMS and document management products.

Enterprise content management vendor Open Text has been given a place on a New South Wales Government panel to provide an Information Asset Management System (IAMS) to government departments and agencies throughout the state.

I assisted a company today with a spectacular Microsoft Office SharePoint Services (MOSS) crash. The experience showed some folly in the oft-claimed mantra that Windows-based applications are graphical and friendly. In fact, here’s a free Linux-friendly open source package called Afresco which makes a better SharePoint than SharePoint.

ECM specialist Open Text has appointed Leonie Cusack as senior manager, field marketing for Asia Pacific.