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It's a Swiss treats day for a Swiss vendor. Enterprise CMS provider Day Software has received the Swiss Open Source Award 2008 in the business category. Recipe for success? Mix two tablespoons of Day with several pounds of a new chief marketing officer, who has arrived from Interwoven via the open source devout Alfresco. And, voila! The open source awards will follow. Day's recently-onboarded CMO Kevin Cochrane tells us all the glorious details about this award and (much) more -- including, why he left Interwoven and Alfresco.

Other content management vendors have two choices when it comes to SharePoint -- join it or beat it. The product is entrenched at the departmental level, nevertheless aspiring competitor, Alfresco, think they can uproot enough MOSS to make business sense of a full assault. Others seek harmony. Day Software is one of these. And their latest claim is that they can help SharePoint grow from department collaboration to enterprise content management.

With another integration under their belt, Day Software continues to prove the value of building a content management solution based on the Java Content Repository (JCR) standard. In this case, SAP has slapped Day on the back for integrating Communiqué (CQ) with the SAP NetWeaver enterprise portal, enabling their customers to integrate business content and processes directly with the portal.

If you are hanging out at the Java Server Side Symposium in Las Vegas then you probably heard the news -- Day Software is having a global application competition called the Day JCR Cup 2008. Well known for their support of JSR 170, the Java content repository API for content access, the winner of this award must be able to demonstrate an original, high quality content-centric application -- design and code -- that uses the API.

The group over at Day Software has been very busy these days. Not only have they launched their own developer portal -- dev.day.com -- but they have entered into an OEM agreement with Exstream Software to bundle their products to create content-centric interactive applications.

Day Software, global content management and content infrastructure software extraordinaire, has launched dev.day.com, a corporate blog and portal by content experts, for content experts. Designed to encourage communication among those who share ideas and interests around content-related topics, dev.day.com is aimed toward software developers and includes news and commentary surrounding JSR 170, the Java Content Repository (JCR) application programming interface (API) for stored content; representational state transfer (REST), open source and other related topics and technologies.