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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.
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:
stevenn@outerthought.org, m. +32 478 29 29 00. 18.08.2006, Steven Noels
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