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According to IDC's latest study, the Content Management market in the Asia/Pacific excluding Japan region is expected to grow steadily at a five-year compound annual growth rate of 14.8%, reaching US$ 362.0 million by 2012. In comparison, the market value in 2007 was US$ 181.8 million.

Google informs me that one of the Open Source CMS Search Engines I built a while back now indexes over 18 million pages. Though it's a drop in the bucket next to broad category search engines, it's not too bad for a specialty search tool.

The Mambo project has just undergone another fork -- with the core developers deciding to step away from the Mambo Foundation and start an independent project.

The new open source CMS project is called MiaCMS and is based on the recent Mambo 4.6.3 codeset. The project team is an all star list from recent Mambo history: Chad Auld, who was the Mambo Dev Team leader for nearly 3 years; Ozgur Cem Sen, who lead the team after Chad's departure about 6 months ago; Richard Ong, who has worked on Mambo docs and development for years; and finally Al Warren, who was with the Mambo project on and off for years and just recently lead the Mambo dev efforts. All-in-all, MiaCMS is comprised of the core of the Mambo Dev Team for the last 3 years.