pkej writes “Today eZ publish 2.0, a web content management system for intra-nets, online shops, portals and news services, was released. eZ publish has become one of the most popular open source web projects within four months of its initial release.

eZ publish 2.0 contains a range of modules. This enables the software to function on everything from simple home pages, through intra-nets to complete web shops, portals or news services. The product is under constant development due to customer demand.

Because of its modularity, and the use of templates in the design, creating or customising a visual design for your eZ publish web site is a breeze. eZ publish is licensed under GPL, which means open source and free distribution and customisation.

The software has been downloaded more than 10,000 times since eZ systems launched eZ publish 1.0 in November 2000, and it has quickly become one of the most popular open source web projects. Our development page has had a steady increase in traffic. Our partner program has, since its inception at the launch of the 2.0 beta program, attracted interest from all the Western European countries, USA, Canada and other countries worldwide. We’ve already acquired partners in Canada, Italy, Norway and the British West Indies.

The response to eZ publish has been overwhelming with regards to customer sales and new projects. Because of this we’ve quickly become an international operation with customers around the world. We’ve also realized that we need new developers. We’re very pleased with the revenue stream generated by eZ publish and related services.

We’re experiencing daily contact from potential customers and partners from large parts of Europe and America. During this year we believe we will have partners in the largest Western European countries, several in the US and Canada. This will give easy access to professional web services based on eZ publish.

The users of eZ publish prefer eZ publish to other very expensive and commercial alternatives because the software provides easy installation and maintenance. The costs of deploying eZ publish are minimal to non-existent, since the software is licensed under GPL. The software competes favourably in features compared to commercial offerings. Consulting services from eZ systems and its partners are only directed at the specific needs of the customers, such as customisation and design. Together with our competitive prices this ensures low deployment and maintenance costs.

Our open source commitment have given us customer trust and satisfaction. They know they receive the best return on their investments from us and our partners. We have a very open and direct customer relationship which gives our customers direct contact with our developers and those who knows the system best.

eZ publish 2.0 is available from our development web site. Commercial support, hosting, hardware with pre-installed eZ publish and software on CD-ROM is available from our online shop.

You can read more about eZ systems at our home pages and more about eZ publish at its home page.

Press officer

Paul K Egell-Johnsen
E-mail
Telephone: +47 35 53 35 44
Fax: +47 35 53 35 46

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Wired.com: “Privacy advocates assail the secretive nature of database marketers at a Federal Trade Commission workshop. They want massive database gatherers such as Acxiom and Abacus to open up and let the public peer in.”

Anandtech: “A new contender is out on the video card market. Attempting to take some glory away from the aged immediate mode rendering platforms that prevail today, STMicroelectronics has paired up with Hercules/Guillemot to produce the tile based rendering 3D Prophet 4500 based on the Kyro II graphics chip. Could the $149.99 Kyro II card beat the $340 GeForce2 Ultra? Before we stated testing, we didn’t think so either.”

Wired.com: “While the privacy debate continues in Washington, new business models may render it obsolete. Firms have begun to offer anonymous, prepaid credit cards and anonymous, disposable cellular phones.”

ZDNET: “The other day, a friend of mine who uses iBooks in his classroom visited me in my home in San Francisco. He noticed my PowerBook
out on the coffee table and asked if he could check his e-mail. He doesn’t know much about computers. On top of that, he didn’t
know that my computer had OS X running on it, and that everyone is complaining about what a horrible thing OS X is. But as a silent
experiment, I decided to let him check his mail and not mention anything about the new world he would find when he flipped open my
PowerBook’s lid.”

FloridaToday.com: “The boy, whose name was not released because of his age, allegedly broke into NASA systems
at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and the Goddard Space Flight Center in
Greenbelt, Md., twice in January. Authorities say he also broke into a U.S. Department of Energy
system at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., that same month.”

“Have you been bangin’ your head against the wall trying to figure out
how to twist up the performance of your NVIDIA card just like the
Winblow$ sufferers can? Well peeps, today is your lucky day! NVClock
will save you many a lump on your noggin’ and will have you fraggin’
away at new performance levels in no time.” Read about it at evil3D.net.

MSNBC.com tells us: “Trying to open a picture file may cause any of
the following Microsoft applications to quit
without forewarning: Greetings 2001; Picture
It! Photo 2001; Picture It! Photo Premium
2001; Picture It! Publishing 2001 (Gold, Silver,
and Platinum).”

EE Times reports that “Chemists at Harvard University say that they have found a practical way to assemble nanowires into regular arrays. The breakthrough could form the basis for interconnecting ultrasmall electronic devices on a substrate.”

Linux Weekly News posted an email from Wichert Akkerman reporting a security bug in the ‘mailx’ console email client. The fix is not perfect and won’t be without a rewrite of the code.