On the list are:

• Arje Cahn, CTO of Hippo
• David Nuescheler, CTO of Day Software
• Dries Buytaert, CTO of Acquia
• Eric Barocca, CEO of Nuxeo
• Niels Hartvig, founder of Umbraco

In the article, Cahn talks about his background and how he landed in the CMS industry:

"I'm proud to have co-founded a company that is still there after 10 years and two economic crises, and I'm proud of the level of expertise you get when sticking with a concept for so long."

Read the full article on CMSWire: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/top-5-cms-executives-35-years-old-and-younger-007033.php.

San Francisco, CA – October 14, 2008 – HIPPO, the leading developer of web-based, open source Enterprise Content Management Systen (CMS) and Portal software based in San Francisco and Amsterdam, today announced that for the second year in a row it has been ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 as one of the fifty fastest growing technology companies in the Netherlands. Companies are selected for the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 based on a variety of criteria including developing their own technology and revenue growth over the past five years.

Hippo is committed to the open source software model and has helped define a number of open standards. Developers from all over the world are working together to improve HIPPO products. HIPPO is also heavily involved in the Apache Software Foundation with key people involved in various Apache projects. Because of the commitment of the community to building quality products, it has grown fast. According to Deloitte, Hippo has experienced revenue growth of approximately 865%, ranking it number twenty out of the fifty companies.

Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer, CEO of HIPPO, said: “I want to extend my thanks to the entire HIPPO community for embracing our technology in 2008. The community has created a product that is adaptable, modular and scalable to millions of documents of all types. Our products are continuing to gain traction in large enterprises across multiple verticals because of the tireless dedication of our community.”

“At the beginning of the year we entered the U.S. market and have exceeded our sales targets for this key area. Our support model with guaranteed support and legal indemnification has been well received in the U.S. market. All signals are that this growth will continue in 2009 as more and more American companies are seeing the tremendous ROI open source technology can bring to their business. With our U.S. office now in full swing we are ready to meet this increase in demand for our products.”

Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer, CEO of Hippo, said: “This move will help us deliver to our growing customer base in North America, where we are witnessing strong demand. CorraTech has a high level of expertise in delivering open source professional services, and has all the attributes that we look for in a partner, including strategy, expertise, and commitment to open source. We look forward to working with CorraTech to redefine and deliver open source Enterprise Content Management to the American markets.”

The new version of Hippo CMS, version 7, is an enterprise class management system that includes the first faceted repository to feature enhanced categorization of data. It provides an easy-to-use, intuitive and practical drag-and-drop interface that encourages users to tag content with multiple qualities, giving organizations better control over important content and more flexibility over how to view and search it. Plug-ins extend the software to organizations’ individual needs, while the underlying open source code is modular and easily customizable. Hippo CMS 7 is free to download and use from www.onehippo.org.

CorraTech provides professional services to help transition organizations to open source software. CorraTech’s objective is to help organizations lower total software acquisition and support and maintenance fees and drive higher quality code and security into its clients IT environments. .CorraTech’s Open Source Center of Excellence (OSCOE) evaluates open source software for enterprise adoption readiness. As part of its evaluation process, the OSCOE measures system scalability, architecture flexibility, interoperability, usability as well as licensing and support capabilities, including the commitment to the open source community.

“We are very pleased to include Hippo in our applications solutions set. Hippo CMS version 7 is a true enterprise-class content management system, designed to deliver a superior user experience with a high level of control over content. The company has a solid management team with a serious commitment to openness. By working with Hippo we will continue to achieve our goal to drive down IT related costs while adding business process innovation for our clients, ” said Ron Bongo, CEO of CorraTech.

About CorraTech

CorraTech is the leading open source software services firm, providing open source system integration, support and outsourcing to software companies and mid market and enterprise level customers since 2002. CorraTech optimizes software costs, improves user productivity, frees business processes and reduces redundancies using open source software.
http://www.corratech.com

About Hippo
Hippo helps companies manage and access information, protect sensitive data, share knowledge, optimize collaboration and reduce operational costs through its Content Management and Portal technologies. With the combination of enterprise-class support and open source technology, Hippo provides its users with the best of both worlds: the flexibility, innovation and robustness of open source software combined with the stability, reach, and service quality of an established vendor.

Hippo is actively involved in several key standard-setting efforts such as JSR 283, 286 and 301. Ten members of the Hippo team are committers/members for The Apache Software Foundation.

The company was founded in 1999 and today has a global base of over 150 customers across the education, publishing, manufacturing, and financial services industries, as well as several government agencies. Hippo has over 60 employees located in its European headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and North American headquarters in San Francisco, California.

For more information visit: http://www.onehippo.com

Hippo's CCO, Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer said: “We see a wave of companies looking to replace their existing closed source solutions for Hippo's CMS 7. Driving this development are cost saving on licensing and the maturity of our Open Source ECM products as well as a wave of consolidation among vendors, often leaving the client empty handed for updates and upgrades. The migration process to a new solution is an important aspect that is all too often under-addressed. We look forward to work even closer with Kapow to bring their products and expertise to the Hippo customer eco-system.” 

 Both companies officially launched the partnership at the Gilbane Content Management Conference in Boston today. An introduction video is available showing Kapow Technologies and Hippo software at work.

“More companies are turning to Kapow Technologies because they are under extreme pressure by extensive cost and time constraints associated with getting their new CMS into production.” said Stefan Andreasen, founder and CTO of Kapow Technologies. “Kapow Web Data Server is the only product on the market with visual automation technology that can eliminate these migration burdens. The result is unmatched data quality and for a fraction of the cost and time.”

About Hippo
Hippo helps companies manage and access information, protect sensitive data, share knowledge, optimize collaboration and reduce operational costs through its Content Management and Portal technologies.  Combining enterprise-class support and open source technology, Hippo provides its users with the best of both worlds: the flexibility, innovation and robustness of open source software combined with the stability, reach, and service quality of an established vendor.

The company was founded in 1999 and today has a global base of over 150 customers across the education, publishing, manufacturing, and financial services industries, as well as government agencies. Part of the Deloitte EMEA Fast 500 in 2007, 2008 and 2009, Hippo has over 60 employees located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and San Francisco, California.

For more information visit: http://www.onehippo.com

About Kapow Technologies

Kapow Technologies provides Fortune 1000 companies with industry-leading technology for accessing, enriching, and serving real-time enterprise and public Web data. The company’s flagship Kapow Web Data Server powers solutions in Web and business intelligence, portal generation, SOA/WOA enablement, and CMS content migration. The visual programming and integrated development environment (IDE) technology enables business and technical decision-makers to create innovative business applications with no coding required. Kapow currently has more than 300 customers, including AT&T, Wells Fargo, Intel, DHL, Vodafone and Audi. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif. with additional offices in Denmark, Germany and the U.K. For more information, log on to www.kapowtech.com or call toll-free at 1-800-805-0828.

Contacts

For Hippo
Lars Peters, EVP North America, +1-707-773-4646
info@onehippo.com

For Kapow Technologies

Carolina Grimm, Bateman Group +1-415-503-1818, ext.16

kapow@bateman-group.com

ROC Eindhoven was looking for a CMS to make internal information spread over the more than twenty schools and seventeen locations, available and comprehensible for all employees. ROC Eindhoven chose for Hippo's CMS after an extensive selection procedure. Crucial for the final choice where the price/quality ratio, the user-friendliness, the possibility to develop applications themselves as a ROC and the use of open standards. Since the data exchange takes place through the open XML-standard, news items for instance can easily be reused for various publication channels.

To begin with, the more than 1500 employees of ROC Eindhoven will start using the intranet, based on the Hippo CMS. In a later stage, also for the website the Hippo CMS will be used. Here information from one CMS will be reused for multiple channels. Through the intranet, employees can find information about the schools and services and about various running projects. Also, they can easily provide articles themselves for the intranet or look for the contact information or knowledge chart of colleagues in the 'smoelenboek'.

Hippo Portal
Besides the CMS, ROC Eindhoven also uses the Hippo Portal. The portal gives employees the opportunity to personalize their intranet and makes using the intranet more interactive. For instance they can save their favorites, the history is saved and people can choose which sources of information appear on their own startpage.

Harry Orbons of the IT-department of ROC Eindhoven: "Our organization exists out of twenty-three schools and seven services plus a Board of Directors. Therefore it was difficult to make all internal information that was present at the different parts of the organization, comprehensible for everybody. To make the information of the ROC easier to find and more accesible, we were looking for a good content management system for our intranet site. Finally, we chose Hippo CMS. The most important reason for this choice, were the attractive price/quality ratio and the use of open source and open standards. Althought the implementation was a lengthy process and didn't always go as smoothly, since the intranet site is being used, we now already had a lot of positive reactions about the user-friendliness and the comprehensibility of the information."

Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer, CEO of Hippo: "The challenge was to present the large amount of information that is present within ROC Eindhoven, in a way that is synoptic for the user. Now the possibilities to personalize ensure that users don't get lost in the abundance of information."

In addition to offering compliance with web guidelines, Hippo Portal offers more flexible information exchange, reduces dependency on scarce SAP expertise and lowers licensing costs.

Read the full article at Computable (in Dutch). 

Growth was fueled by several new product launches. CMS 7 was launched in the first half of 2009 together with the HST, Hippo's Site Toolkit for accelerated web development. Hippo's contributions to the Apache Jetspeed project culminated in the release of the all new Jetspeed 2.2, released by the Apache Software Foundation. With Apache Jetspeed Hippo's CMS suite features integrated Portal functionality for deployment in secure Enterprise environments.

On the customer side, the choice of the Government of the Netherlands for Hippo as the one central CMS for all its departments was another landmark for the role of Open Source software in the public sector. Closer to its North American headquarters, Hippo recently expanded its longtime work in the Higher Education market with a new Intranet portal brought live by the University of Southern California.

Lars Peters, EVP of Hippo USA, said "Hippo's customers see great value in giving editors and end users new and better tools to work with content. The business case for CMS and Portal integration remains strong as always, but budgets are frozen or very conservative. Using Hippo leverages the existing investment of these organizations and allows teams to move ahead and work with the next generation of content driven collaboration tools Hippo provides."

To support its new products and customers, Hippo added a total of 9 employees, bringing the total to well over 50. The addition of Apache Jetspeed veteran Randy Watler to the team in the US brought Hippo's total number of committers to the Apache Software Foundation to a round 10. The committer title is only bestowed to select individuals with substantial contributions to Open Source projects, after rigid peer review of the Apache developers community.

At the same time, Hippo increased its office space on both sides of the Atlantic: While the European headquarters was expanded at the current location, Hippo USA doubled its office space when it moved into its newly delivered office.

About Hippo
Hippo helps companies manage and access information, protect sensitive data, share knowledge, optimize collaboration and reduce operational costs through its Content Management and Portal technologies. With the combination of enterprise-class support and open source technology, Hippo provides its users with the best of both worlds: the flexibility, innovation and robustness of open source software combined with the stability, reach, and service quality of an established vendor.

Hippo is actively involved in several key standard-setting efforts such as JSR 283, 286, 301 and 329. Ten members of the Hippo team are actively involved as committers/members for The Apache Software Foundation.

The company was founded in 1999 and today has a global base of over 150 customers across the education, publishing, manufacturing, and financial services industries, as well as several government agencies. Part of the Deloitte Fast 50 in 2007 and 2008, Hippo now has over 60 employees located in its European headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and North American headquarters in San Francisco, California.

“For too long CMS systems have been considered closed applications offering specific functionality to specific users” says Dennis Tilgenkamp, Director Xaton. “The open source products of Hippo enable us to realize solutions for our customers in a quick and reliable manner, in which it is not only possible to maintain information, but also possible to share this information between processes, users and systems.”

Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer, Chief Commercial Officer Hippo: “The partnership with Xaton is a great addition to our network of technology partners, since Xaton focuses on both Web and Mobile applications. In a world where increasingly the site visitor selects the channel, multichannel capabilities have become essential. At Hippo we build software that recognizes each channel behaves differently, and makes the most out of each in line with the organizations goals. With Xaton we found the ideal partner for the increasingly important mobile channel”.

About Hippo:
By leveraging Content Management and Portal technologies, Hippo helps companies to manage and access information, protect sensitive data, share knowledge, optimize collaboration and reduce operational costs. With the combination of enterprise-class support and open source technology, Hippo provides its users with the best of both worlds: the flexibility, innovation and robustness of open source software combined with the stability, reach and service quality of an established vendor.
Hippo was founded in 1999 and today has a global base of over 150 customers across multiple industries including education, publishing, manufacturing, financial services and government. Hippo was recognized by Deloitte in its Fast 500 for 2007, 2008 and 2009 based on revenue growth. To support the rapidly expanding Hippo community, Hippo has over 60 employees located in its European headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and North American headquarters in San Francisco, California.

For more information please visit: http://www.onehippo.com

About Xaton:
Xaton excels in the delivery of web and mobile technology based solutions. The teamwork of our functional, technical and visual specialists enables us to realize projects within time and budget. We have vast experience in the successful implementation of CMS systems, specifically when these systems form an integrated part of a complete solution. Next to integration and implementation, Xaton also maintains the solutions for its clients.

For more information please visit http://www.xaton.com

For additional Questions:

Hippo
Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer
Tel: 020-5224466
e-mail: t.brenninkmeijer@onehippo.com

Xaton
Paul Arkenbout
Tel: 020-4043982
e-mail: paul.arkenbout@xaton.com

Jetspeed

 http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/

Jetspeed is an easy-to-access open source Enterprise Information Portal using Java and XML to collect and present information from multiple sources via an intuitive and user-friendly interface. As a product of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), one of the leading open source organizations dedicated to collaborative software development, Jetspeed is available for free under the business-friendly Apache License.

Hippo’s own product range is the first to feature full integration with Jetspeed 2.2, including Hippo CMS 7, the Hippo Site Toolkit and the integrated CMS suite. Its products provide organizations with an innovative and cost effective solution for content management and online collaboration. The new release, combined with Jetspeed’s track record of performance, stability and its unmatched support for open standards, is an ideal fit for the highly scalable collaborative intranet and web architectures built on Hippo’s products.

David Sean Taylor, Apache Member, founder of the Jetspeed 2 project and VP of Engineering for Hippo, said, “There’s been a build up of excitement behind the scenes as the open source community has been gearing up to complete and release Jetspeed 2.2. At Hippo, we’ve been busy contributing to the community effort while also planning how to ensure our customers reap the range of features and benefits available in the new version. It’s going to be a strong comeback for Jetspeed with a range of new capabilities in usability, scalability and extensibility that were previously only available for clients in custom projects – it’s a leap forward towards the next generation of enterprise portals.”

New features and improvements in Jetspeed 2.2 and Hippo’s accompanying product range include:

Open design for optimal interoperability

• Full Portlet API 2.0 support and compliance, built on Pluto 2.0.0

• New pluggable and extensible security model with LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) synchronization to provide integrated secure environments

• Improved integration support for popular web development frameworks such as Wicket, Spring MVC, Struts and JSF (JavaServer Faces)

Facilitating truly interactive collaboration

• Inter-portlet communication through standards based eventing and shared state management

Fast, cost effective integration

• Fresh looks and improved usability with new administrative portlets and new skins

• New high performance preferences database storage

• Custom and customizable portal project templates and full Maven-2 build support

• Improved documentation including 5 new guides focused on users, admin, developers, building and deploying

These features provide a range of extensibility and usability enhancements. Together they dramatically improve the ease of adding custom functionality while increasing the control of end-users. Hippo expects Jetspeed 2.2 to reestablish Jetspeed’s position as the portal of choice for building performance oriented enterprise portals in a rapid and cost-effective way.