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 March 8 turned out to be Simon Phipps’ last day at Sun (news, site) / Oracle (news, site). What does that mean for his pet projects, and Oracle’s plans for Sun’s open source properties?

Another week is over. While the content management community on Twitter was debating whether WordPress is a CMS (see Word of Pie’s blog post and CMS Myth’s take), many other Enterprise CMS, Web CMS and related happenings took place.

Here’s the top news you might’ve missed along with our most popular reads, new job posts, featured events and more.

Microsoft  (news, site) and Yahoo! (news, site) have been given the final approval by the EU to go ahead with a partnership that was agreed to last July. That partnership will see Yahoo’s search results being powered by Microsoft Bing for a cut of the ad revenues.

The deal has also been agreed to by US regulators without any conditions seeing the two take control of 30% of the search market — the other 70% of which is controlled by Google.

IDC (news, site) has a new research report available on growth of worldwide IT spending and while it’s improving, it’s not by much.

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Welcome to the February installment of our what’s coming from the open source CMS projects in the next month.

If you’re looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.

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Everyone has an opinion on who we all should be paying close attention to this year. IDC has their lists, Gartner and Forrester point our theirs in research reports. Even CIO Magazine has their top 20 and there are more than a few you might find interesting.

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In order for real communication to happen, especially among people from different regions and dialects (let alone people from different countries and languages altogether), terms have to be clearly defined so that everyone is starting from the same point. The problem with such definitions is that the devil really is in the details.

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On January 1, 2006, Rick Falkvinge set up a web page for the Swedish Pirate Party. He mentioned the address in a single chat room, and within 24 hours he had over the 2,000 signatures he needed for the party to participate in the upcoming election.

What do these pirates want? With such a name it can be hard to take the party seriously, but politicians are taking notice now and so should you. The Swedish Pirate Party now has a seat in the EU Parliament, two if the Treaty of Lisbon goes into affect, changing various aspects of how the EU’s government works. And the party has spread far beyond the EU. It might even be in your own back yard.

Obviously if you make the list of any analyst report — at least in a good light — you want the world to know. For FatWire (news, site), that analyst report comes in the form of the Forrester Wave for Web Content Management For External Sites, Q2 2009.

One of three leaders among ten web content management systems listed, FatWire received recognition for “business-user-oriented tools that enable not only the management of content, but targeted delivery, analysis, and optimization of content consumption as well.”

Microsoft made its first ever keynote at the JavaOne Conference last week reports eWeek, touting their desire for increased interoperability between .NET and Java.

The Forrester Wave for Web Content Management For External Sites, Q2 2009 is out and there are 10 web content management vendors on the list that we all know and love well. SDL Tridion (www.cmswire.com/news/topic/sdl%20tridion">news, site) took the top honors this time with Interwoven and FatWire close behind.

Why are these three vendors at the top and who else is on the list? Let’s take a look.

Welcome to another installment of our what’s coming from the open source CMS projects in the next 30 days.

If you’re looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact for your project for updates.

The world of Enterprise Content Management saw the beginning of a possible new direction last week when Mark Lewis, president of EMC’s (news, site) Content Management and Archiving division took the stage at EMC World 2009.

Lewis’ main argument was that the majority of present day information is a total mess (that’s nothing new). He specifically focused on the dangers of unstructured data floating around without hide nor hair of an application or database. After all, vagrant infomation is like kryptonite for both business efficiency and security.

Bada boom, bada bing!

That’s how quickly things seem to happen in the webverse anyway, the search engine avenue being no exception. Accordingly, recently there have been rumors backed by heavy advertising dollars that Microsoft (news, site) plans to release a search engine called "Bing."

FatWire Software (news, site), a very familiar Web Content Management provider in these parts and one of the few companies that managed to actually benefit from the failing economy, has been acknowledged for its success yet again. Yphise, one of Europe’s independent research firms, recently named the company the best Web Experience Optimization (WEO) solution, placing it on a higher pedestal than competitors such as Interwoven, SDL Tridion and Vignette.